Syrian rebels and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo on Friday, despite a Russian deadline to resume bombing Syria's largest city at nightfall after a 17-day pause. The rebels' own shelling of residential parts of government-held western Aleppo...

(The Guardian)- Squabbling between Saudi Arabia and Iran has sent the oil price down, as tension between the near neighbours threatened to derail talks aimed at cutting production by the Opec group of oil-producing countries. Riyadh is reportedly threatening to turn the screw on Tehran...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian woman has stabbed two of her children to death in Germany, shocking the nation, that still remembering the previous two murders, one is killing a woman and her two daughters and the other for a father who threw his 3 children from the window. Media in Germany...

The United Nations cannot use Russia's unilateral pause in the fighting in Aleppo to send aid into the city's besieged eastern zone because it does not have the needed security guarantees, a U.N. spokesman said Friday. Russia and the Syrian army told rebels in Aleppo Wednesday to leave by...