Aid to Yemen is being slowed by a Saudi-led coalition which has warned commercial vessels to stay away from areas hit by fighting, a U.S. Navy report said. The Arab coalition, fighting to end control of much of Yemen by the Iran-allied Houthi movement, denied the allegation and said it was keen...

Two senior officers from Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported, ahead of a planned offensive by Syria's army backed by Tehran. Major General Farshad Hasounizadeh and Brigadier Hamid Mokhtarband, commanders in...

At least 27 people have been killed Tuesday in Aleppo and Damascus provinces due to regime and Russian air strikes in a fiercest aerial campaign on rebel-held areas for months, activists and a monitoring group said. 13 people have been killed in Darret Ezzah and Hayan towns near the northern...

Syrian rebels based in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta suburbs have fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the capital as scores of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria, AP reported An Associated Press reporter was outside the embassy on...