
Syrian state media said President Bashar Assad has spoken with his Iranian counterpart following last week’s US missile strike on a Syrian air base used as a frontline in the battle against foreign-backed terrorists. Iranian President Hasan Rouhani “expressed strong condemnation of the blatant US aggression on the Syrian territories,” ...

A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens who had gathered for Palm Sunday mass, state media reported. Some 59 people were wounded in the blast, which struck at a Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, 120 kilometers ...