Kerry to Mideast to advance struggling Syria plan
Secretary of State John Kerry is headed back to the Middle East to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's ...
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover
Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 ...
Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war
Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria's civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded ...
Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town
Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar ...
Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to ...
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight ...
US slams Russian anti-ship missiles going to Syria
The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons ...
Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other ...
Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of ...
Official: 10 killed in explosion in Turkey
Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people. The governor's office in Hatay province said ...
Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan
A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil ...
Syrian troops flush out rebels from prison
Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of ...
Turkish PM talks Syria with Obama at White House
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but ...
Attacks against Lebanese Alawites deepen fears
Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country.
13 detained in Turkish bombings, death toll to 51
Four more people have been detained in connection with two car bomb attacks that killed dozens in a Turkish town near the Syrian border, bringing the ...
Syria wants details about US-Russian initiative
The Syrian government wants more details before deciding whether to take part in a proposed U.S.-Russian initiative to negotiate a peaceful end to ...
Obama tries to swat down 2 swirling controversies
President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political ...
Attacks on Sunni mosques fuel fears in Iraq
A sharp rise in attacks on Sunni holy sites in Iraq is feeding fears that the country could spiral into a new round of sectarian violence similar to ...
Car bombs lead some to question Turkey's security
Anti-government protests flared for a third day on Monday in Turkish town devastated by two powerful car bombs near the Syrian border, and some Turks ...
Putin and Netanyahu to discuss Syrian conflict
President Vladimir Putin's talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Russia on Tuesday will focus on the situation in Syria, the Kremlin ...
Syria opposition: consult allies before peace push
Syria's main opposition bloc wants to consult its allies before deciding on joining a U.S.-Russia initiative to negotiate a peaceful transition in ...
Syrian rebels release 4 UN Filipino peacekeepers
Syrian rebels on Sunday released four Filipino U.N. peacekeepers they abducted last week in a dramatic incident that prompted warnings from the ...
Politics commandeer stage in Mideast TV contest
TV singing contests around the world tend to serve up light, glitzy entertainment with a dash of emotional drama. But in the Middle East's version of ...
Turkey says it won't be drawn into Syria conflict
Turkey's prime minister vowed Sunday his country won't be drawn into Syria's civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried ...
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