There will be no supply of arms to Syria by European Union member states in the short term, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore ha(...)

European foreign ministers have reconvened talks in Brussels tonight where divisions remain over a proposal to lift an EU arms embargo on the Syrian o(...)

US secretary of state John Kerry has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin for a tougher stance on Syria at a time when Israeli air strikes ag(...)

Two Syrian archbishops from Aleppo were abducted yesterday while traveling outside that besieged northern city, the official news media and an(...)

Foreign ministers from the G8 group of rich countries condemned "in the strongest possible terms" North Korea's development of nuclear weapons (...)

The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has said the organistaion has merged with Syria's extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, which has sided with the rebels fig(...)

France and Britain will push for an urgent EU meeting to re-consider the embargo on arming the Syria n opposition. If unanimity cannot be reach, th(...)

As many as two million children have had their lives torn apart by the bloody conflict in Syria as the fighting enters its third year with no e(...)

The Philippines remains committed to deploying troops in UN peacekeeping hotspots despite the brief hostage-taking of 21 of its soldiers, m(...)