Upset at President Barack Obama's policies on  Iran  and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years. Saudi Arabia's intelligence...

Plans for talks to end the fighting in  Syria  were in jeopardy on Tuesday after the opposition refused to attend unless President Bashar al-Assad is forced from power and a furious Saudi Arabia made clear it would no longer co-operate with the United States over the civil war....

Polio has returned to Syria after a long absence, and other dangerous diseases are on the increase The World Health Organisation has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio for 14 years in   Syria , sparking renewed alarm at the collapse of health care caused by the country's...

  U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Baghdad Monday on the next leg of a regional tour to build support for talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the foreign ministry said. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Brahimi at the airport, a statement on the...