BEIRUT: Net profit at Lebanon's Bank Audi rose 4.5 percent to $94.5 million in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period in 2011, as net...
ANTAKYA, Turkey: A military bombardment of a town in central Syria killed 30 people on Monday on the eve of a scheduled army withdrawal from urban areas,...
BEIRUT: Western and Arab nations warned President Bashar Assad not to delay adopting a plan to end a year of bloodshed in Syria and called on peace envoy Kofi...
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces bombed towns and clashed with rebels in several regions Friday as activists said thousands staged anti-regime protests and the...
BEIRUT: Two explosions struck the heart of Damascus on Saturday, killing at least 27 people in an attack on security installations that state television...
BEIRUT: Bashar Assad always said Syria would be different. When the Arab uprisings first erupted more than a year ago, the Syrian president confidently said...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Traumatized residents straggled from their homes in Homs city on Sunday after Syrian forces eased a week-long bombardment that has killed...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian forces bombarded districts of the city of Homs Saturday in their drive to crush a revolt against President Bashar Assad, whose ally...
BEIRUT: Lebanese banks which worked for years to build up business in neighboring Syria have been quietly implementing U.S. and European Union sanctions...
BEIRUT: At least 66 civilians were killed across Syria on Monday and scores injured as regime troops pounded the city of Homs with mortars and launched an...
BEIRUT: Two defiant appearances by President Bashar al-Assad in as many days show the Syrian leader's confidence that he can lead his country out of...
BEIRUT: Threats by Syrian armed insurgents to step up attacks on security forces, just days after their leader announced a truce that was largely ignored,...
BEIRUT: The commander of Syria's armed rebels threatened on Tuesday to step up attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's forces, saying he was frustrated...
BEIRUT: Army deserters killed 27 soldiers in southern Syria on Thursday, an activist group said, in some of the deadliest attacks on forces loyal to President...
BEIRUT: France says it believes Syria was behind an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon. While Paris has no proof, Damascus has plenty of...
BEIRUT: A Syrian pipeline carrying crude from oilfields in the east of the country was blown up near the restive city of Homs on Thursday, according to...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Arab states have landed a hefty blow on Syria’s crisis-hit economy by stopping deals with its central bank and halting investment, but...
BEIRUT: Arab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative...
BEIRUT: Syria faced a Friday deadline to sign an Arab deal allowing monitors into the country or incur sanctions over its crackdown on protests including...
BEIRUT: Syria faces a Friday deadline to sign an Arab deal allowing monitors into the country or incur sanctions over its crackdown on protests including...
BEIRUT: The Arab League decision to suspend Syria and impose sanctions after nearly eight months of unrest will encourage tougher international measures...
BEIRUT: Syria's main private banks saw customer withdrawals grow by hundreds of millions of dollars in the third quarter of the year as the uprising...
BEIRUT: Syrian tanks pounded an old district in the city of Homs on Saturday and three people were killed, activists said, after one of the bloodiest...
BEIRUT: Syria threatened Sunday to retaliate against any country that formally recognizes a recently established opposition National Council seeking...