U.S. President Barack Obama believes that holding military talks with Russia on Syria is an important next step and hopes they will take place very shortly, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday. Russia, which is building up a military presence in Syria, was quick to say...

A powerful Syrian rebel group has claimed that it fired several rockets at an airport on the coast said to be used by Russian troops, AP reported. In a video posted on Friday, members of the Islam Army warn the Russians that they will not enjoy peace in Syria. The fighters are then are seen...

Aircraft from a Saudi-led coalition attacked Yemen's interior ministry in the capital, Sanaa, late on Friday and launched several other raids on sites in the heart of the city, residents and other sources there said. The air raids by the coalition have intensified in recent...

Turkish authorities to open border crossings with Syria during Eid al-Adha, despite the tensions, a such move allows thousands of Syrian refugees scattered on the both sides of the border to meet again after nearly 9 months of border closure due to the deteriorating security situation, source...

The Syrian refugee family whose plight was made famous when they were tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman as they fled were greeted by the stars of Real Madrid, including Cristiano Ronaldo on Friday. Osama Abdul Mohsen and his two sons Mohammad, 18, and Zaid, seven, have been brought...

Beremend (Hungary) (AFP) - Overwhelmed Croatia on Friday began bussing hundreds of migrants to its border with Hungary, threatening to create a new flashpoint in Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II. The move came as a string of countries in the Balkans closed...

For Vladimir Putin, Russia's military build-up in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine's frozen conflict. But it was a panicky realization that the Syrian government was being turned over on the battlefield that tipped the...

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told his U.S. counterpart on Friday that Moscow's military activities in Syria were "defensive in nature," a senior U.S. defense official said after the 50-minute phone call. "He said that the Russian activities were defensive in nature and that...

 Fatah Army has fired nearly 400 rockets on two besieged Shiite villages in the northwestern province of Idlib and detonated at least nine car bombs, as regime air force steps up air attacks on Idlib, killing 17 people, a monitor said on Friday. The renewed attacks on the...

The newly-appointed leader of the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham rebel group has vowed to defeat any planned Russian intervention in Syria during his inaugural public address.   “We owe it to you to restore freedom to Syria after the invasion of the rejectionists [Shiites] from all...

Syrian army jets carried out at least 25 air strikes on the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra on Friday, a group monitoring the war said, the second intense bombardment of territory held by the militants in two days. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was one of the most...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees hoping to cross the Turkish border into Greece or Bulgaria will be removed by the weekend, the local governor said Thursday. Dursun Ali Sahin, the governor of Erdine province bordering Greece and Bulgaria, said the refugees, who are mostly Syrians, would have to...

Just a couple of weeks after the case of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi caused worldwide outrage over the plight of refugees, another drowned Syrian child, a 4-year-old girl, has washed up, this time in western Izmir province. According to local Turkish authorities, the yet to be...

 Main Alawite neighborhoods of central city of Homs condemned governor's decision allowing displaced people of Sunni neighborhoods to come back home, saying the 'laggard' governor is letting terrorists enter Homs again. Abu Jawad al-Faouri, local activist, quotes eyewitnesses as saying...

The Syrian refugee who was tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman, arrived in Madrid late last night, where he has been offered a job and accommodation. The refugee, Osama Abdul Mohsen, was a professional football coach in Syria's premier league team El Fotuwa SC before the war broke out. After...

Washington: The United States expressed concern Thursday that preparations for Myanmar's landmark elections have been undermined by moves to exclude Muslim minority candidates from the ballot. Myanmar will vote on November 8 in what many hope will be its most free vote in generations...

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moualem said his country would request Russian troops to fight alongside its troops if the need arose but denied there were combat troops there now. "There is no joint fighting on the ground with Russian troops but if we felt such a need we would study it and...

Barrel bomb attacks by Syrian regime helicopters killed at least 22 civilians late Thursday in a rebel-held town near southern city of Daraa, a monitoring group said as Thursday's death toll rises to 99 across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime helicopters "dropped...

Any Iranian bank receiving sanctions relief under a nuclear deal signed in July between Iran and six world powers would see sanctions re-imposed if it were found to be supporting Hezbollah or Iran's Qods Force, a U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday. U.S. Treasury Department's...

A new massacre committed by Syrian regime air force in al-Sha'ar neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, leaving at least 20 people killed on Thursday what rises the death toll in the last 72 hours to 60, activists and monitoring groups said. Regime's devastating air campaign was extended...