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Lebanons president asked Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri to form a new government on Thursday (Nov. 3) after he won ...

Syrian forces backed by Palestinian groups succeeded Saturday to recapture a camp of Palestinian refugees in the ...

Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, received on Saturday Russia's Defense Minister, Sergey Kuzhugetovich Shoygu, who ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday hoping for an easing of tensions between the ...

Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe courted Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Monday, holding out the prospect for ...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius demanded that talks on Syrias future yield assurances that President Bashar ...

NATO member Turkey on Tuesday shot down a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border, threatening a major spike in ...

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents ...

NATO voiced concern Tuesday that Russias air attacks in Syria creates the risk of "an incident getting out of ...

Syria's military downed a US UAV (drone) in the country's west because it was snooping in an area where Islamic State ...

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will resign on Monday, senior officials told reporters, as the White House faced ...

The United States is pushing Turkey to join the fight against Islamic militants, amid frustration and wariness in both ...

At least 30 Syrian children were killed Wednesday in a double bombing by a lone assailant at a school in the ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit out against the Islamic State group Wednesday as a "dangerous ...

Air strikes alone will not be enough to destroy Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, and Baghdad will need ...