U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Russia's foreign minister on Friday to put pressure on the Syrian government to accelerate the removal of chemical weapons, which Kerry said is not happening quickly enough. Kerry met Russia's Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Munich...

Syria is transferring some of its most prized weapon systems to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to US officials cited by leading US newspapers, according to JANEs Defence Magazine . The Wall Street Journal reported on 2 January that Yakhont anti-ship missile...

A senior al Qaeda operative based in Iran and known as Yasin al Suri (a.k.a. Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil) is "more active than ever" and facilitating al Qaeda's global operations, Al Jazeera reports . Al Suri's role as al Qaeda's point man inside Iran was first exposed by...