ENNISKILLEN, Stephen Collinson, Anna Smolchenko - Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on Monday aired clashing views on Syria, but pledged to at least try to keep alive a frail and much-delayed effort to...
BAGHDAD- EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton pledged on Monday during a trip to Baghdad to press Iran for greater cooperation over its nuclear programme after Tehran elected a new president....
CAIRO, Haitham Eltabei- Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi, in severing ties with Damascus, aims to show solidarity with Western and fellow Arab states opposed to Syria's regime and also boost his...
BEIRUT- A car bomb killed an undetermined number of soldiers and wounded at least 20 others late Sunday at an army checkpoint near a military airport in Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human...
WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State John Kerry warned for the first time Saturday that chances for a political settlement in Syria could be undermined by the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons....
CAIRO- Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday announced the "definitive" severing of relations with war-torn Syria, which is suffering from more than two years of civil war. Egypt...
DAMASCUS- A US pledge to step up military aid to Syrian rebels because of alleged use of chemical arms by the regime drew criticism from Damascus ally Russia and from UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday....
ROME- Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi plotted to have Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi assassinated by the secret services, Italy's Il Fatto Quotidiano daily said Thursday, sparking a heated...
WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle and Cecile Feuillatre- The advance of Syrian regime forces on opposition strongholds has thrust into the spotlight a fractious debate on whether Western nations should arm the...
BAGHDAD- Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak al-Sabah landed in Iraq on Wednesday for a surprise one-day visit as the two countries look to cement improving ties and resolve a swathe of...
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