ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships with grain have departed Ukrainian ports and are headed to Turkey for inspection, Turkey's defense ministry said on Friday. The three ships are loaded with a total of 58,000 tons of corn. The departure of the ships comes after the first grain ship since...

Mourners poured out onto the streets of Tehran on Thursday to pay their respects to several Iranian officers killed in Syria, a testament to the human cost of Iran’s involvement in the civil war and a public display of nationalist fervor as nuclear talks resume in Vienna. The remains of...

A Syrian rights group said Monday it documented the killing of 86 civilians, including children and women, in July.     In a statement, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said 21 children and eight women were among the victims.   Five of the victims were...

Opposition figures in northwestern Syria have expressed their rejection of the regime’s participation in the upcoming Arab League summit set for Algeria in November. They criticized Algiers’ insistence on inviting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in spite of its war machine and its...