Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta said he would rather have Neymar at the club than a massive transfer fee, with speculations linking the Brazilian to Paris Saint-Germain in a world record deal. PSG have reportedly held discussions with Barcelona about a transfer for the 25 year-old that...

Syria's army and its allies on Saturday reached the edge of al-Sukhna, the last town held by Daesh (ISIS) in Homs province and a key step in their multi-pronged offensive against the militants, a Hezbollah-run military media unit said. Sukhna is on the main desert highway between Palmyra and...

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said Saturday a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fired a warning shot in an "unprofessional" confrontation with Iranian vessels, the official IRNA news agency reported. IRNA quoted a statement from the Guard as saying that the USS Nimitz and an accompanying ship...

(The Economist)- The guns have fallen silent over southern Syria. Under a deal brokered by Russia and America, the Syrian regime and its rebel adversaries, which have fought for six bloody years, have agreed to stop killing each other in parts of the country. Since the truce came into force on...