Three people were killed and 22 others wounded on Thursday in two explosions and a mortar attack against an old district of Syria’s capital of Damascus. The attacks targeted the al-Kallaseh neighborhood in the old quarter of Damascus.

There is no need for Congress to add new sanctions on Iran if the United States is serious about pursuing diplomatic solution to Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday.

The long-delayed conference aimed at ending Syria’s 32-month conflict will be held in Geneva on December 12, a Syrian government daily reported on Thursday, citing diplomatic sources in Paris. The Al-Watan newspaper said that US Secretary of State John Kerry had told his French counterpart Laurent Fabius that UN Secretary General Ban