Fighting broke out east of Damascus between rebel and government forces on Wednesday for the first time since both sides declared a ceasefire at the weekend, a war monitor said, with air strikes also hitting the besieged, rebel-controlled enclave. Air strikes on three towns in East Ghouta...

Draft new U.S. sanctions against Russia leave no room to improve ties between Moscow and Washington in the near future and take the relationship into uncharted waters, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, the Interfax news agency reported. The U.S. House of Representatives...

Twitter Inc. heads toward its quarterly earnings report on Thursday with a stock that has risen more than 40 percent since April when much of Wall Street was ready to write off the tech company. The company's share price popped after its most recent earnings report in April, when Twitter...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian refugees were killed and dozens arrested when the Lebanese army stormed Wadi al-Nakheel camps in the border town of Arsal on Tuesday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The Hezbollah-controlled army has been waging fierce campaign against Syrian refugees over the...