Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday. Areas controlled by rebels or Kurdish-led troops did not hold the vote, and over five million refugees who are mainly living in neighbouring countries largely chose not to ...

*WASHINGTON: * US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but that his then-secretary of defense Jim Mattis opposed the operation. "I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set," Trump told the morning show*Fox & ...

        ISLAMABAD- MANARA, Israel,Israel said Wednesday it had launched air strikes against Hezbollah observation posts in Lebanon after shots were fired from across the border towards its troops the previous ...

ISLAMABAD- Washington, The US Treasury placed two United Arab Emirates-based companies on its sanctions blacklist Wednesday for their support of already-sanctioned Iran's Mahan Air.UAE-based Parthia Cargo and Delta Parts Supply FZC "have provided key parts and logistics services for Mahan Air," the ...

ISLAMABAD-Paris,A Paris court on Wednesday convicted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's uncle of money laundering and misappropriating Syrian public funds and sentenced him to four years in prison.  Rifaat al-Assad, 82, was hospitalised with internal bleeding in France in December and was not ...

ISLAMABAD - Russia requested the UN Security Council endorse a ceasefire for Syria, but the United States, a veto-wielding power, refused and called the truce “premature.” Questions remain on how the ceasefire will be enforced. [image: US rejects Russian plan for Syria ceasefire at UN ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday extended condolences to Turkey over loss of lives of the Turkish troops in an airstrike by the Bashar al-Assad regime forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Thursday. “Pakistan acknowledges and expresses support for Turkey’s legitimate security and ...

JERUSALEM: A war monitor reported on Monday that Israeli air strikes killed six alleged militants from the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip and Syria, after the group fired a barrage of rockets at Israel. In the latest tit-for-tat violence ahead of a March 2 general election in the ...

ISLAMABAD - Turkish president and his U.S. counterpart discussed over the phone the latest developments in Libya and Syria and bilateral economic ties between the two countries, said Turkey’s Communication Directorate. During their conversation, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump ...

ANKARA: Turkey will strike Syrian regime forces "everywhere" if its soldiers come under renewed attack, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Wednesday and accused Damascus ally Russia of committing "massacres" in Idlib. "I hereby declare that we will strike regime forces everywhere from now ...