Two U.S. aircraft carriers and their escort vessels carried out naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan this week in a show of force directed at North Korea, a U.S. official said Friday. The USS Carl Vinson and the USS Ronald Reagan led the three-day exercises that ended Friday, with a total of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The former spokesman for Jaysh al-Islam on Friday has cut his links with the powerful Islamist group that operates in Eastern Ghouta suburbs after ten months since his resignation as spokesman after a controversial interview with an Israeli think received considerable...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says a chemical attack in Syria was a provocation against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Speaking at an economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, Putin strongly reaffirmed Russia's view that Assad's forces weren't responsible for a fatal chemical attack in...

Syria is unlikely to see a major "Marshall Plan" for reconstruction as peace remains elusive despite hundreds of thousands more civilians possibly returning to their homes, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking after his fifth...