
Syrian troops capture key town near Damascus
After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple ...

Kurdish rebels to retreat from Turkey to Iraq
Kurdish rebels will start withdrawing thousands of guerrilla fighters from Turkey on May 8 and retreat across the border to northern Iraq, a rebel ...

Minaret of famed mosque in Syria destroyed
The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed Wednesday as rebels and ...

Minaret of landmark mosque in Syria destroyed
The minaret of a landmark 12th century mosque in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed Wednesday, leaving the once-soaring stone tower a ...

Qatar faces backlash among rebel groups in Syria
In a war-battered suburb of Damascus, a commander for one of the smaller nationalist brigades fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad ...

Syrian war increasingly drawing in Lebanon
As fighting rages just across the border, Lebanese are giving signs of joining the battle on rival sides of Syria's civil war — Sunnis on the side of ...

Syrian regime shoring up hold on capital, coast
After watching much of Syria's territory slip into rebel hands, President Bashar Assad's regime is focusing on the basics: shoring up its hold on ...

EU lifts Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels
The European Union on Monday lifted its oil embargo on Syria to provide more economic support to the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad's ...

Syrian opposition calls on Hezbollah to stay out
The Syrian opposition called on Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the country, as activists said regime troops supported by gunmen linked to the ...

Egypt justice minister submits resignation
Egypt's justice minister submitted his resignation Sunday, a Cabinet spokesman said, in a move that signaled strong disapproval of the president's ...

US doubles aid to Syrian rebels, who want more
The United States said Sunday that it will double its non-lethal assistance to Syria's opposition as the rebels' top supporters vowed to enhance and ...
Group accuses Egypt's Morsi of ignoring atrocities
Some members of a high-level commission that issued a report detailing security abuses and atrocities during and after Egypt's 2011 uprising accused ...

Child soldiers patrol C. African Republic capital
As fighters in fatigues lounge in the shade of the rebel camp in the capital of Central African Republic, a boy jumps up to greet visitors with a wide ...

Pro- and anti-Islamist protesters clash in Egypt
Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president battled in the streets near Tahrir Square on Friday as an Islamist rally demanding a purge of ...

Diplomats: EU set to ease Syria oil embargo
The European Union is set to ease its oil embargo on Syria to bolster the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad's regime, two diplomats said ...

Muzzle on dissent in Gulf faces backlash in Kuwait
Outside a palm-shaded villa in suburban Kuwait City, government security forces are taunted and defied each night by supporters of a former lawmaker ...
Yemenis dismantle tents, declare end of revolution
In a symbolic move, Yemenis on Thursday began to dismantle protest tent camp in the capital, Sanaa, and other cities across the country, declaring the ...

Israeli PM doesn't rule out helping Syrian rebels
Israel's prime minister declined to rule out the possibility of providing arms to Syrian rebel groups, saying in a television interview broadcast ...