The Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict has been the top regional conflict for a decade. This conflict has become a banner of the region's hot zones, which are aflame, by proxy, from Iraq in the north to Yemen in the south, Bahrain in the east, and Lebanon in the west.
The United States will lift a suspension on the delivery of Apache helicopters to Egypt after concluding Cairo has upheld its peace treaty with Israel, US officials said Tuesday.
Syrian troops on Sunday seized full control of the rebel bastion Yabrud in the strategic Qalamun region near the Lebanese border, Syrian state media reported.
Syria's army and rebels have agreed local truces in key flashpoints around Damascus, despite regime and opposition representatives failing to make any progress in Geneva peace talks.
Russia is prepared to consider a new resolution on Syria by the U.N. Security Council, if it meets principles of international humanitarian law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with Algerian counterpart Ramtan Lamamra here on Tuesday.
Britain will act "straight away" to provide a refuge for hundreds of vulnerable Syrians brutalised by their country's civil war, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Thursday.
An Al-Qaeda inspired group in Egypt claimed responsibility on Saturday for four bombings targeting police in Cairo that killed six people the day before.
The Iranian foreign ministry voiced regret over the UN's withdrawal from its earlier position on Tehran's presence in the International Geneva II conference on Syria, reminding that Iran has never requested participation in the international gathering.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, called the tribunal prosecuting suspects in former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri's assassination "politicised," saying it aims to pressure Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.