BEIRUT: With U.N. chemical weapons inspectors trapped just kilometers away from the site of what could be one of the worst gas attacks in decades, doctors...
BEIRUT: Middle Eastern and world leaders were sharply split Thursday over the Egyptian military’s dramatic ouster of Mohammad Mursi from power – mirroring the...
BEIRUT: Political pressure was mounting on U.S. President Barack Obama to act Friday after his ‘red line’ on chemical weapons use in Syria was...
BEIRUT: The defeat of the opposition in Qusair strengthens the regime’s hand and exposes deep flaws in the West’s policy on Syria ahead of talks...
BEIRUT: Bashar Assad’s troops expelled Syrian rebels from an important Damascus district Tuesday, state media reported, bolstering the regime's hold on the...
BEIRUT: Fears mounted for civilians trapped inside the besieged Syrian town of Qusair Sunday, but the regime insisted the Red Cross could only enter once...
BEIRUT: Hundreds of Syrian rebels managed to enter Qusair Friday to try to rebuff a major regime offensive in the strategic town close to the Lebanese border,...
BEIRUT: Prospects for peace talks designed to end Syria's civil war diminished Thursday as the opposition announced it would not take part in the planned...
BEIRUT: Russia slammed a U.S.-backed draft resolution condemning Syria’s use of foreign fighters in the strategic town of Qusair as counterproductive to peace...
BEIRUT: The Syrian government onslaught on Qusair is the first step in a major new regime strategy to secure the west of the country from Damascus to the...
BEIRUT: Grainy images shudder and jolt awkwardly across the screen as crackling voices chant in jubilant protest or scream at the extraordinary horror of an...
BEIRUT: Efforts to kick-start Israeli-Palestinian negotiations without backdoor discussions with Hamas are unlikely to yield results, analysts told The Daily...
BEIRUT: The Syrian army aided by fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah made a huge push to retake the strategic city of Qusair from rebel forces Sunday,...
BEIRUT: Internet connections in Syria were restored Wednesday evening, after an eight-hour blackout left the country offline for the second time in a week....
BEIRUT: Debate over Syrian President Bashar Assad’s potential role in any future transition government raged Tuesday, as the U.S. Secretary of State announced...
BEIRUT: Nearly half of those killed in Syria’s 26-month civil war have been civilians, an opposition-aligned group said Sunday. More than 82,000 people...
BEIRUT: Supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad found themselves in rare unity Tuesday in their condemnation of Israeli airstrikes that...
BEIRUT: Daily explosions in the center of Damascus this week have shaken residents, although uncertainty remains about who bears responsibility and what the...
BEIRUT: Concern is mounting over the fate of two Syrian bishops reportedly kidnapped in the north of Syria, with another Church official contradicting an...
BEIRUT: The Greek Orthodox Church denied Tuesday circulating reports that the two archbishops abducted in Aleppo, Syria, had been released. The fate of Greek...
BEIRUT: Two archbishops were kidnapped by armed gunmen in Aleppo province Monday evening, marking the most senior Christian figures to be embroiled in...
BEIRUT: Syrian government rocket fire killed at least 12 people in Homs village near the border with Lebanon, opposition activists reported Wednesday,...
BEIRUT: Fierce fighting erupted in the outskirts of Maaret al-Numan Monday evening as regime forces attempted to consolidate gains made over the weekend in...
BEIRUT: Government forces are deliberately targeting civilians in north Syria with warplanes striking bakeries and hospitals, according to a Human Rights...
BEIRUT: Incremental Syrian rebel gains close to the Golan Heights are threatening to rupture nearly 40 years of quiet along the contested border with Israel,...