Iran has called for all sides in Yemen's war to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks and accused Saudi Arabia of worsening the conflict with its military intervention against Tehran-backed rebels. In talks with visiting U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed Wednesday, Iranian officials including...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Xinhua)- The ceasefire negotiations, which have been taking place to achieve a 15-day truce east of the capital Damascus, have failed, a monitor group reported Thursday. The Syrian government forces and an array of rebel groups in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus have...

President Barack Obama Wednesday slammed American “hysteria” about the security threat posed by Syrian refugees as Republicans sought to freeze a program to resettle them in the wake of the Paris attacks. Seizing upon fears one of the attackers may have entered Europe posing as a Syrian...

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid on Wednesday that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after a wave of attacks killed 129 across the French capital. Police stormed an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis...