Beirut, Lebanon: Syrian rebels, including jihadists, seized the last government-held town on the main highway between second city Aleppo and the city of...
Beirut, Lebanon: Syrian rebels, including jihadists, seized the last government-held town on the main highway between second city Aleppo and the city of...
Chief of the Air Space Forces of Russia Viktor Bondarev. Moscow: Russia sent anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria to back up its air...
United Nations, US: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for negotiations in the coming months to settle the frozen conflict over Western Sahara,...
A member of a coalition force monitors the horizon in al-Hawl, some 650 kms northeast of Damascus, on November 2, 2015 AFP Washington: ...
Syrians pass a large hole in the ground reportedly caused by heavy shelling on the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the Syrian...
Cairo: The United States and Britain on Wednesday said a bomb may have brought down a Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt, as...
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Anne Patterson testifies during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on November 4, 2015 (AFP...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, photographed at a US security summit on October 30, 2015, is due to talk with British PM David Cameron on...
By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK: Syrian-American Lina Sergie Attar, a mother of two, has a spare bedroom in her suburban Chicago home, which...
Beirut: The Syrian government now employs up to half of the country's workforce, a sharp rise since its conflict erupted in 2011, devastating...
Washington: Syrian government offensives backed by Russian air strikes have displaced at least 120,000 people in the war-wracked country, a senior US official...
Hafhed Caid Essebsi, the son of President Beji Caid Essebsi, attends a meeting with Nidaa Tounes party leaders in Tunis, November 3, 2015 ...
When Oxana's sailor father left his home in 's Black Sea port of in September, he just said he would be going to...
Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during an annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, marking 36th anniversary of the seizure...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi defended his sweeping security laws ahead of his arrival in London on Wednesday for talks with British Prime...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the mukhtars meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara on November 4, 2015. Ankara:...
Yemeni men lift a damaged fishing boat out of the water following a tropical cyclone that has slammed into the war-racked country, on...
Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. AFP Damascus: Syrian troops have recaptured the sole road into the...