President Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington's main Arab ally over U.S. policy on Iran's nuclear program and the civil war in Syria, a newspaper reported. Obama is preparing to meet with King Abdullah for a summit, the...

Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have launched a major offensive on the outskirts of the besieged city of Homs, state media and its loyalist outlets reported. Al-Alam, an Iranian satellite channel, reported on Saturday that the extensive military action aimed at purging the...

At least nine people were killed when Syrian regime helicopters dropped explosive-filled barrels on two neighbourhoods of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported at least seven people killed in a double car...