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UPDATE: The Turkish parliament has approved a bill authorising cross-border military operations in Syria, but insists it is not a mandate for war. ...

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Riot police used teargas to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators in Tehran, chanting anti-government slogans after the value of Iranian currency p...

Five bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Aleppo have left 33 people dead and dozens wounded, according to government officials. The blasts result...

The contents of top secret Syrian security documents are to be broadcast on Arabian news channel, Al Arabiya. The documents, leaked by members of ...

This is the moment a man wrenched a baby from the wreckage of a Syrian building. In the image in a video from the Shaam News Network, men scramble ...

"It is ironic, that they took me there to torture me, in the same place I used to go to school to learn. My father was actually the Principal there. They had taken over the school and made it into a torture centre. It wasn't a proper jail, I learnt later. It was a place they took you to first, before jail. To torture you."

In some basic outline, the paper gives the readers an idea where Kurdistan Region foreign policy is at and where it is heading. It also points out the...

For many refugees I spoke to, their story about how they left begins with a deciding moment: "my house was destroyed"; "there was so much firing in the street, I could not get to the hospital just 10 minutes away"; "we saw too much killing".

The hands of the United Nations are stained with blood over its failure to stop the atrocities in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron has told the int...

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I'm crouched next to Reem, a beautiful young Syrian woman living in the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. A head scarf covers her hair and her family hover nearby. She is telling me about her life in Dera'a, Syria, and why they left. She is also crying.

Children from war-torn Syria are being badly traumatised from witnessing killings, torture and other atrocities in the country's conflict, a charity h...

Russia's ambassador to Britain has defended his government's repeated blocks of United Nations sanctions over the crisis in Syria, saying the revoluti...

The violent struggle between the Syrian government and opposition forces risks tearing the country apart and spilling over its borders to spread secta...

Recent economic indicators suggest that at least some of the risks to the Turkish economy that built up in 2010-11 have started to ease. Although this improvement may be partly due to external developments outside of the control of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, much of the rebalancing process has been policy-induced.