Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won Germany's election, but indicate that they have finished short of an absolute majority. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote,...

  Reuters reports that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is now saying that Moscow is ready to send troops to Syria to ensure the safety of United Nations chemical weapons inspectors. Major assault launched to free hostages held by al-Shabab fighters in...

  Special sources confirmed to Zaman Alwasl that the center of the border city of Azaz, near Turkey, is still controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS”, besides 30 detainees and activist Mohamed Noor, are still under arrest at ISIS. A ceasefire...

Now that it seems unlikely the U.S. will hit Syria militarily, the rebels need a new strategy. Jamie Dettmer reports on the tough odds facing the opposition. President Obama’s acceptance of a Russian-brokered proposal to strip Syrian president Bashar al-Assad of his...