(Reuters) - Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said. The talks...

(Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader hit out on Thursday at a letter by U.S. Republican senators threatening to undo any nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran, saying he was worried because the United States was known for "backstabbing", Mehr news agency reported. Ayatollah Ali...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)   A man from the town of Qatana in the western countryside of Damascus told stories of 7 victims died under torture in Assad’s prisons.   Abo Mohamed al-Qatanani, has recognized 7 bodies  from Qatana,...

(Reuters) - U.S. and coalition partners conducted 13 air strikes against Islamic State militants in  Iraq  since early Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Five of the strikes in Iraq hit vehicles and Islamic State excavators near Kirkuk, and three air strikes struck...

(Reuters) -  Syria n government forces and allied militia have repelled an insurgent attack on a village in western Syria of strategic importance to both sides, with dozens of combatants killed, a monitoring group said on Thursday. A Syrian military source also said the...

(By Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)   Activists of Homs confirmed that dozens of archaeological buildings in war-torn city have been completely stolen since the Syrian revolution erupted in march 2013. Activists explained that regime’s...

Around 1,500 Syrian Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children, returned from Turkey to northern Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobani, on Wednesday. The refugees crossed the border from Mursitpinar border gate, located in the southern Turkish district of Suruc,...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Life conditions of people under siege in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus have become extremely difficult as most of essential services and needs are rare or not available, Medicine and treatment have been significantly affected by the difficult...

(Reuters) - An explosion damaged a police station in the center of Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, a witness said. The blast at the building, which is close to the foreign ministry, also damaged several cars, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. No more information was...

The United States does not appear to have clear-cut legal authority to protect Syrian rebels it trains from attack by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even under new war powers, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday. Still, Carter told Congress, a...

(Reuters) - Australia is seeking to confirm Islamic State's claim that an Australian teenage recruit died after blowing himself up in Iraq, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday. Islamic State released an image on Wednesday claiming to show Abu Abdullah al-Australi before...

Aid agencies said on Thursday that 2014 was the worst year of the Syrian conflict so far and that three United Nations Security Council resolutions aimed at alleviating the suffering had failed. Syria's crisis started in March 2011 with protests against the government and...

Islamist rebels on Wednesday have recaptured strategic village of Dorien in coastal Latakia province, days since the strategic area was seized by Syrian regime forces, activists said. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE...

The body doubles and counter-surveillance were just the start. To bring a documentarian of Assad’s atrocities to Congress, Syrian activists had to grapple with the State Department, too. In the morning hours of July 31, 2014, a former Syrian military police photographer with the...

(Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants. In a possible response to the fighting north of...

(Reuters) - Bahrain's public prosecutor has charged a high school student and two teachers with insulting Islam in connection with a video showing the student reciting verses from the Quran to musical accompaniment, state news agency BNA reported on Wednesday. According to...

  Turkey has closed two border crossings with Syria as a security precaution as fighting around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensifies, Turkish customs and government officials said on Wednesday. The crossings at Oncupinar and Cilvegozu in Turkey's southern...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pledged to give the "required response" to NATO's increasing military buildup near Russia's borders. Amid concerns over the implementation of the fragile Minsk truce concerning...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Local forces supported by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes seized a key terrain from the Daesh terror group in northeast Syria, the U.S. said Tuesday.   The seizure now denies the terror group, also known as ISIL, access to its...

People of Babila and Yalda suburbs south of Damascus went to the street on Tuesday protesting against Nusra Front's practices and abuses, chanting slogans of support for local rebels in their fight again al-Qaeda Syria’s wing. A ceasefire was reached on...