Syrian rebels trained by the United States gave some of their equipment to the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in exchange for safe passage, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday, the latest blow to a troubled U.S. effort to train local partners to fight Islamic State militants....

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad must go, but it might be necessary to talk with him as part of a deal on a transition of power, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in an interview published by French daily Le Monde on Friday. Departing from a strict U.S. and Western policy of not...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fly Agaric , Amanita muscaria and other poisonous kinds of mushrooms have become a new killer for Syrians, as it caused death for many Syrian refugees in Germany and Sweden as many refugees died as a result of eating these plants thinking...

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of world soccer body FIFA, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Friday. It said Blatter was interrogated after a meeting of...