"Mr. President, your legacy will depend on what you do in Syria," I said to President Barack Obama as I shook his hand during an event in the White House in the summer of 2013.   He grew more...

JERUSALEM, UNDEFINED, Mike Smith- Israel approved hundreds of new settler homes in east Jerusalem Sunday, hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to speak to US President Donald Trump for...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Three regime air strikes on rebel-held areas in the central Syrian province of Homs on Sunday killed nine civilians, six of them children, a monitoring group said. Two strikes hit...

ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN, Dana RYSMUKHAMEDOVA with Gabrielle TETRAULT-FARBER in Moscow and Maya GEBEILY in Beirut- Syria's government and rebel fighters will on Monday sit down at the negotiating table for...

MADRID, SPAIN- Pope Francis on Saturday warned against populism, saying it could lead to the election of "saviours" like Hitler. In an hour-long interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais conducted as...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Thomas Watkins and Michael Mathes- More than two million people flooded the streets of Washington and other US cities and demonstrators around the world joined in as women...

Astana, Kazakhstan - The next Syria peace talks are not taking place in a storied European city but in Kazakhstan's capital Astana, a "new Geneva" flaunting its role as an international mediator and...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Layal Abou Rahal- Regime and rebel figures will head to Kazakhstan on Monday for negotiations on ending Syria's brutal war, but will arrive with diametrically opposed approaches to...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The US-led coalition has conducted four strikes near the Syrian town of Al-Bab, a significant move that will help Turkish forces fighting the Islamic State group there, a...