Russia has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in New York, diplomats said. Russia, like Iran, has been...

A grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is expected to seek election early next year to the body that chooses Iran's supreme leader and is said to have the cautious blessing of the incumbent, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Registration opens on Thursday for the election that is likely...

  There "seems to be no agreement" on two key issues just hours before the latest international conference on Syria is held Friday in New York, Iran's foreign minister said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told The Associated Press on Thursday that his country has seen "no lists we can agree upon" of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of the Syrian mountainous town of Madaya near the Lebanese border are living under harsh and suffocating conditions as the starvation policy adopted by regime forces and allied Hezbollah militia is leading to tragic consequences, residents told Zaman al Wasl. In spite...