The United States will grant Iraq a brief 45-day extension to a waiver allowing Baghdad to continue importing Iranian gas despite American sanctions, an Iraqi official told AFP on Wednesday. The US slapped tough sanctions on the Iranian energy sector in late 2018 and initially granted Iraq...

Syrian regime forces Wednesday pushed on with their offensive in the country's northwest, securing areas along a key national highway they seized, as tensions spiralled with Turkey which supports rebel groups. After a series of tit-for-tat attacks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A photo exhibition for Syria’s mass torture photos was held for a week in the French city of Limoges due to an initiative by Syrian lawyers and advocates. The photo selection was of 53,275 torture photographs smuggled out of Syria in August 2013 by a military...

The Taliban have issued an ultimatum to Washington after weeks of talks with a U.S. peace envoy, demanding a reply on their offer of a seven-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan, or they would walk away from the negotiating table, two Taliban officials said Wednesday. The development...