Middle Orient News

Aiming to build up a permanent fleet in the region, Russia has sent warships from its Pacific Fleet to the Mediterranean for the first time in decades.

Turkey believes fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were behind two car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town where thousands of Syrian refugees live, officials said on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to hold talks on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the conflict in Syria amid concerns Moscow plans to deliver

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Kamel Amr has welcomed the decision by his counterparts from Russia and the United States to hold a conference on the Syrian crisis. In a statement published

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu headed on Friday to Jordan for a one-day working visit to discuss important issues, including the Syrian crisis, with Jordanian officials. During his visit, Davutoglu is to discuss with Jordanian

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi for talks on Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid a new international push to find a way to end the civil war.

The U.N.-Arab League mediator in the Syria conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi, has agreed to stay on despite his frustration at the international deadlock that has prevented UN action to halt the two-year-old civil war, the United Nations said on May 9.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu held a telephone conversation with US Secretary

United States President Barack Obama met with Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani at the White House Tuesday amid a flurry of meetings with regional leaders on Syria’s increasingly bloody stalemate.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said on Wednesday in a press conference in Istanbul on Wednesday that it should be a priority for all fighting parties in Syria to lay down arms without any pre-condition. If fall of Assad regime and change of rule in Syria became