President Barack Obama says each of his proposed steps to reduce gun violence should get a vote in the Congress, even an assault weapons ban that both parties agree stands little chance at passing.

Reliance Globalcom, the underseas cable unit of Reliance Communications, said on Monday it had launched a joint venture with Iraq that substantially expands the country's broadband and telecommunicati

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have renewed efforts to impose control in Homs province, killing at least 35 people in one of the biggest bombardments since a failed U.N.-mandated ceasefire

Armoured forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad thrust deeper into the central city of Homs on Wednesday, firing rockets and mortar rounds to subdue opposition districts, activists said, a day afte

Syrian troops and army defectors have fought one of the biggest battles in Syria's nine-month uprising while a protest strike shut businesses in a new gesture of civil disobedience, residents and acti

Syria will boycott an Arab League meeting to follow up its decision to suspend Damascus from the organisation, as regional states stepped up efforts to isolate President Bashar al-Assad for refusing t

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's departure was 'inevitable,' a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, while earlier in the day troops shot dead eight pro-democracy protesters and wounded 25 at a fu

Syrian tank fire killed at least three people in the city of Homs early on Friday as security forces pursued a violent crackdown on protesters despite a government agreement with the Arab League to st

The Arab League handed Syrian officials a plan for ending seven months of increasingly violent unrest against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, and Assad told Russian Television he would cooperate wit

The killing of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi fueled anti-government rallies across Syria after Friday prayers and security forces killed 25 people in a continued crackdown on protesters seeking President Ba