About 13.5 million people in Syria are now in need of humanitarian assistance and some sort of protection –an increase of 1.2 million in just 10 months, the UN aid chief said Tuesday. Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council that more than 6 million of those in need are children. "There are...

Iran has been invited to join the next round of talks on the Syrian conflict to be held next week in Vienna, Austria, unnamed U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the invitation was delivered by Russia.    American,...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Monday that the Syria crisis cannot be resolved without Turkey. "Can the Syrian question be resolved with an equation in which Turkey does not figure? Is there a formula for progress that does not include Turkey?" asked Davutoglu in a live...

The Arab and Turkmen populations in northern Syria have faced human rights abuses in areas controlled by armed Kurdish group, the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), according to a report published Tuesday. In a 22-page report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said abuses against Arabs, Turkmen...

A helicopter carrying 16 people was shot down and crashed into the sea near Libya's capital on Tuesday with at least nine passengers, including a senior militiaman, confirmed dead, a military official said. The aircraft was hit by gunfire shortly before noon and went down near the Al-Maya...

Ahrar al Sham Islamic movement has no relation or links with the newly announced body, The Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the northern city of Aleppo, the communication officer told Zaman al Wasl. Social media activists circulated on Saturday a video statement...

A Saudi prince and four other people have been detained in Lebanon in the largest drug seizure in the history of Beirut airport, a security source has said. Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz was among those detained by airport security while allegedly "attempting to smuggle...

A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was hit by a Saudi-led air strike, the group said on Tuesday, another bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month air campaign in Yemen. "MSF facility in Saada Yemen was hit by several airstrikes last...

Islamist militants firing from Afghanistan into Pakistan killed seven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday, officials said, in an attack likely to put more strain on tense relations between the neighbors. Afghanistan and Pakistan routinely trade accusations of doing too...

Delegations from Free Syrian Army rebel groups did not visit Moscow, representatives of four factions fighting under the FSA banner told Reuters on Tuesday, denying Russian news agency reports that such visits had taken place. Russian Foreign Ministry official Mikhail Bogdanov...

An Iranian official says the Revolutionary Guard has sent more military advisers to Syria to help President Bashar Assad in the fight against insurgents. Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard's deputy leader, says this has led to more Iranian deaths in the conflict. Salami didn't give any specifics...

Turkish police detained about 30 people on Tuesday in a raid against suspected ISIS militants in the central city of Konya, Dogan News Agency reported. The sweep comes a day after police launched a series of operations against ISIS groups, including a raid on more than a dozen houses in the...

ISIS claimed responsibility on Monday for a suicide bombing that killed a worshiper and wounded several others at a Shiite mosque in Najan in southern Saudi Arabia. The operation targeted "the rejectionist Ismailis" said a statement carried by the group posted on Twitter, referring to the...

Further diplomatic discussions on ending the Syrian conflict could occur as soon as the end of this week, a State Department spokesman said on Monday, acknowledging that Iran would eventually need to be involved in the talks on a political transition in Syria. "At some point ... we know there's...

A suicide bomb claimed by ISIS killed at least seven people, including two police, when it exploded on Monday near a Shiite Muslim procession in a northern Baghdad neighborhood, police and medical sources said. The explosion in Shaab, which the sources said left 23 wounded, was one of a...

At least 120,000 people have been displaced since early October in the Syrian governorates of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, the United Nations said on Monday, more than doubling an earlier estimate of 50,000. According to Reuters, most of the people who have fled from an upsurge of fighting have...

A Russian foreign ministry official said on Monday delegations from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) had visited Moscow several times, Russian news agencies reported, as Moscow stepped up political efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria. The Kremlin also said President Vladimir Putin,...

Islam Army denied reports saying regime forces have been making gains in territory it controls east Damascus. The key rebel group operating in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs and in the eastern Qalamoun region said in press statement it has killed 24 regime troops northeast the capital on...

A new mass grave found Friday in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor that has contained 40 bodies for men from al-Sheitaat tribe who revolted against the Islamic State in July 2014. The Syrian Justice Center for Human Rights said the one-year-old grave had included corpses of 40 people, mostly...

A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan, injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were...