Iran's reformist former president Mohammad Khatami has skirted a media ban to endorse moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani for a second term over conservative challengers in a tight May 19 election. Khatami, who during his 1997-2005 presidency oversaw a rapprochement with the West, has been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian militias had a fierce battle with the Syrian resistance in the countryside of Hama province, according to a short film aired by Russian media outlets. The film documented moments of clashes between the so-called “Turan Battalion" and fighters of the Syrian...

A car bomb killed at least five people and wounded several others in a rebel-held town in northern Syria on Wednesday in an attack Syria's political opposition said targeted its officials and local headquarters. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also put the death toll...

A powerful blast targeting a foreign forces convoy near the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 25 Wednesday, officials said, the latest attack in the Afghan capital. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed the toll, telling AFP...