The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a potential U.S.-Russia deal to allow Syrian rebels to safely leave Aleppo was still on the agenda, but that no talks were planned between the two countries for now. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that Russian and U.S....

Ankara is doing "everything possible" to facilitate negotiations between Moscow and Syrian opposition groups to halt the bloodshed in Aleppo, Turkey's premier said in an interview published Wednesday after meeting President Vladimir Putin. "We are doing everything possible to bring about...

Iran was set to sign preliminary agreements with Total and Shell Wednesday to develop major oil and gas fields as it seeks to boost its output, an oil official said. The deals include a $10-12 billion expansion of the South Azadegan oil field and another project at the Yadavaran oil field,...

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and one was seriously wounded in a vehicle-borne bomb attack near the ISIS controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, broadcaster CNN Turk reported Wednesday. The attack occurred as Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish troops, aircraft and artillery, besieged...

Syrian rebels in besieged eastern Aleppo called for an immediate five-day cease-fire and negotiations about the future of the city, and for medical and civilian evacuations, in a humanitarian plan published Wednesday. A "humanitarian initiative" document signed in the name of the Aleppo...

 Syrian rebels in besieged eastern Aleppo called for an immediate five-day ceasefire, negotiations about the future of the city and for medical and civilian evacuations, in a humanitarian plan published on Wednesday. A Turkey-based rebel official told Reuters the plan had been sent to...

Syrian regime forces control all of Aleppo's historic Old City after rebel fighters withdrew in the face of army advances overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The army and allied forces hold more than 75 percent of east Aleppo, a rebel bastion since 2012,...

The death toll from a strong earthquake that hit northern Indonesia's Aceh province on Wednesday has doubled to at least 50, Indonesia's disaster agency said, as rescuers searched dozens of collapsed buildings for trapped survivors. Search and rescue teams used earth movers to clear rubble...

At least 80,000 people have fled east Aleppo since the Syrian army began an operation in mid-November to recapture the rebel-held sector of the second city, activists said Tuesday. The figure includes those who sought refuge in the government-held west of the city and the Kurdish-controlled...

A Russian military adviser working in Aleppo has been killed by artillery shelling carried out by Syrian opposition rebels, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying Wednesday. The adviser would be posthumously given a top military award, the agencies said....

  The Syrian regime accused Israel of attacking near Damascus for the second time in a week, raising frictions between enemies who have labored to keep spillover from the war in Syria from entangling them in their own, separate conflict. Israel fired surface-to-surface missiles at...

Tennis world number two Novak Djokovic has split with coach Boris Becker three years after adding the German grand slam winner to his team. Serbian Djokovic confirmed their parting of ways on his website on Tuesday. "After three very successful years, Boris Becker and I have jointly...

(Al Jazeera)- Forces aligned to Libya's UN-backed national unity government said they were hunting down the last remaining ISIL fighters in Sirte after the group's ouster from its former bastion. Soldiers were said to be "chasing the last jihadists hiding in fewer than 10 houses" on Tuesday...

Syria's army and allies closed in on areas near Aleppo's Old City on Tuesday, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of the five-year civil war by driving rebels out of their last urban stronghold. Rebels said on Tuesday they would never abandon Aleppo, after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Armed groups of the Democratic union Party (PYD) has Tuesday launched a new campaign of arrest against young men for conscription and fighting by the side of the party in Shadadi town in Southern countryside of Hasaka, while masked people burned the office of Kurdish National...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy movement of Iranian aircraft between Iran and Syria as the number of Iranian flights has more than doubled in the last two weeks, sources reported.  Sources reported to Zaman l-Wasl correspondent inside Syria on condition of anonymity that Damascus airport has...

More than 2,000 lawyers protested in Tunisia's capital on Tuesday against a draft budget for 2017 stipulating a new tax for their profession, AFP reporters said. "With our souls and our blood, we will defend the lawyer's profession!" chanted protesters in black court robes after a silent...

 A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death and several others to prison terms in a case involving an alleged Iranian spy cell, a sign of the continuing tension between the two Mideast powers. A Riyadh criminal court handed down its ruling to the 32 people who were...

 U.S. and Russian officials will not hold talks on Syria in Geneva this week, despite an announcement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that they would, sources familiar with the plans said on Tuesday. Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow would start talks with Washington on a...

The House passed a defense bill last week that included language giving the incoming Trump administration the authority to send shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to rebel groups fighting in Syria. While the bill provides certain restrictions for transferring the controversial weapons,...