Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday that Moscow was ready to consider additional ways to "normalize" the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the ministry said. Lavrov told Kerry over the phone that the ceasefire agreement brokered by...

Reporting by Ammar Bakkour (Zaman Al Wasl)-People in rebel-held areas sleep and wake up on the sounds of air strikes by the Syrian and Russian. Even they many times sleep and do not know if the light would come out and they still alive, Yusuf Khoja, a tailor for Aleppo described his daily...

Pakistan on Friday "completely rejected" India's claim to have sent troops across its disputed border in Kashmir to kill suspected militants, as India evacuated villages near the frontier amid concerns about a military escalation. In a rare public announcement of such a raid, India said it...

Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to further ramp up its campaign of air strikes, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as Moscow defied global censure over an escalation that Western countries say has torpedoed diplomacy. In a statement issued by the White House after the two...