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President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria will defend itself against any attacks, as Washington and its ...

Colombia`s ELN rebels have freed a Canadian engineer after holding him for more than seven months, the International ...

Taliban insurgents executed six Afghans working for a flagship development programme funded by the World Bank in the ...

Russia on Tuesday warned a military intervention in Syria could have "catastrophic consequences" for the region and ...

US President Barack Obama has the authority to launch air strikes against Syria. But he has to notify lawmakers in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told British Prime Minister David Cameron that there was no evidence yet ...

Italy said Monday that the Syrian regime had reached "a point of no return" but stressed any international response ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed reports of chemical weapons use in ...

Iran`s representative to the UN`s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali Asghar Soltanieh, announced his ...

Syrian authorities denied charges that the army used chemical weapons in attacks on areas near the capital on ...

More than 650 people were killed in fierce Syrian army bombardment with chemical weapons of Damascus suburbs on ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for a "full investigation" into the deaths of three dozen Islamist ...

Egyptian police on Thursday entered a Cairo mosque containing the bodies of several dozen killed Islamist protesters ...

Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Sunday claimed a wave of attacks that killed 74 ...

Dozens of police were injured in Belfast on Friday evening (August 9) after clashes broke out during protests against ...