UN chief: Syria spillover threatens Golan truce
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from Syria's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and Israel in the ...

Syrian rebels reeling from loss of Qusair
The Syrian rebels' defeat in Qusair cost them more than a strategic stronghold. It has left them with a battered spirit and deep frustration.

Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield
Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly ...

Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens
A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit ...

Al-Qaida leader scraps Syria, Iraq branch merger
Al-Qaida's leader has tried to end squabbling between the terror network's Syrian and Iraqi branches, ordering the two groups to remain separate after ...

Iraqi Shiite fighters' Syria role raises tensions
The Iraqi Shiite fighter's family is urging him to stop risking his life by traveling to Syria, saying he's done his part defending the holy shrine ...

Anti-Hezbollah protester killed in Lebanon
Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon's Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during ...

Iraqi PM visits Kurdish north, hoping to mend ties
Iraq's prime minister on Sunday made a rare visit to the country's self-ruled northern Kurdish region in a bid to melt the ice between the Kurds and ...
Multinational military exercises launch in Jordan
Patriot missiles were deployed for the first time at an annual multinational military exercise in key U.S. ally Jordan on Sunday, Jordanian and U.S.

Car bomb kills 7 people in central Syrian city
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria's central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated by the ...

Hezbollah entry in Syria fans Shiite-Sunni fires
The Egyptian cleric was in a fervor. With Hezbollah's Shiite fighters helping Bashar Assad crush Syrian rebels, he wanted to sound the alarm to Sunnis ...

Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops press offensive
Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters pressed forward with their offensive in the country's opposition-held heartland on Friday, taking two small ...
AP Interview: Sabra: Syria war becoming sectarian
The leader of Syria's main opposition group on Friday warned that the involvement of Hezbollah is transforming the war in Syria into a sectarian ...

France studies how to track arms for Syrian rebels
France's government is investigating high-tech methods to prevent terrorists from using any weapons that Western governments send to Syrian rebels, ...

Syrian rebel offensive in Golan jolts Israel
Syrian rebels briefly seized control of a border crossing along the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Thursday, prompting the withdrawal of a major ...

A look at the latest Syria developments
Here are the latest developments in the Syria crisis: — Austria announces it is withdrawing 377 U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights after Syrian ...

EU commits $525 million more in aid for Syria
On the eve of a United Nations conference on Syria, the European Union on Thursday committed 400 million euros ($525 million) more in aid to deal with ...

Syria army deals severe blow to rebels in key town
Syrian troops and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies captured a strategic border town Wednesday after a grueling three-week battle, dealing a severe blow ...

US to deploy Patriots, F-16s to Jordan
The U.S. will send anti-missile batteries and fighter jets to Jordan at the kingdom's request to boost defense capabilities in the face of an attack ...

Hagel, NATO ministers talk Syria chemical weapons
New reports that the French confirmed the use of sarin gas in Syria triggered discussions here on the sidelines of the meeting of NATO defense ...