A United Nations team that was due to start their investigation into an alleged chemical attack near the Syrian capital left their Damascus hotel on Monday morning.

Later, a UN spokesman said that snipers had...

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Hundreds of mourners attended the funerals on Saturday of some of the 47 people killed in twin car bombs in the Lebanese city of Tripoli the previous day.

Sheikh Dai Islam Al-Shahal, head of the hardline Sunni Salafist...

NATO warplanes from the base of Aviano have conducted hundreds of sorties against Serb targets in Bosnia.

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Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday mourned its top military commander, who was killed in an explosion in Damascus.Dozens of Hezbollah fighters carried the coffin of Mustafa Badreddine, draped in a Hezbollah flag, in the funeral procession in...

Hundreds of Khmer Rouge soldiers have defected unconditionally to the Cambodian government, dealing a serious blow to the guerilla movement and increasing pressure on renegade leader Ieng Sary to follow suit....

Plumes of smoke were seen rising in Aleppo amid the sound of explosions, on Monday, a day after the Syrian army ordered rebels to leave the city or face "inevitable death."Rebel defences have buckled after months of siege and waves of...

A series of small explosions occurred in Aleppo on Monday morning, a day after the Syrian army ordered rebels to leave the city or face "inevitable death."At approximately 0925 local time (0725 GMT), a plume of smoke could be seen rising...

Military operations were underway on Monday as Syrian forces advanced into the neighbourhood of Sheikh Saeed, in eastern Aleppo. Syrian state TV said government forces and their allies now control 99 percent of Aleppo's formerly...

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00:00:0082 killed as Saudi-led airstrike hits funeral hall4059544AP TELEVISIONSanaa - 8 October 20161. White smoke rising2. Tracking shot of ambulance heading to scene3. Vehicle on fire4. Various of victims carried away from...

A convoy of trucks carrying hundreds of civilians, including men, women and children, left the last enclave held by Islamic State group militants in eastern Syria on Wednesday, signalling a possible end to a standoff that has lasted for...

Syrian troops pushed their way into a rebel-held enclave in the north-western province of Hama on Wednesday, clashing with insurgents and capturing a strategically located village.

Syrian rebel groups were fighting back, waging a counteroffensive Friday to try to retake territory lost to government forces this week in their stronghold in the country's northwest, state media, activists and fighters said.

The UN's special envoy for Syria said on Tuesday he was looking forward to constructive discussions with Syrian officials on the formation of a constitutional committee as a "door opener for the broader political process."

Turkish-backed Syrian forces from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have been training near the Syrian northern town of Azaz, in preparation for an anticipated Turkish incursion into Syria.

Celebrations broke out in the Turkish town Akcakale on Sunday after reports Turkey-backed Syrian forces had advanced into the centre of the Syrian border town, Tal Abyad.

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Rival factions from Syria's civil war gathered in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss a new constitution for the country.

People gathered in a rainy Istanbul on Saturday to demonstrate against the intense air and ground bombardment by Syrian government forces in southern and eastern Idlib province, the last rebel-held bastion in the war-torn country.

The Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan, one of the largest and most strategic rebel-held towns in Idlib province, has been left largely empty after heavy bombardment in recent weeks.