At the entrance of a rural town in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, a blue sign says "Welcome to Bar Elias, population 50,000" but in the past six years, that number has more than doubled with Syrians seeking shelter from the war across the border. "They are our guests," said Mayor Mawas Araji. "But...

The White House said on Friday that the United States must accept the political reality that the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad is up to the Syrian people and the U.S. focus in the region must be on defeating ISIS. "With respect to Assad, there is a political reality that we have to...

German police are investigating a Syrian doctorate student in detention for having allegedly planned a bomb attack, local media reported Friday. The 36-year-old man was previously already probed over suspected ties to ISIS, said public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk. Prosecutors have...

The U.N.'s Palestinian relief agency says Syria's Palestinian refugee population has fallen by one-fifth since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. UNRWA Director Pierre Kraehenbuehl said Friday there are 440,000 refugees in Syria, compared to 560,000 in the country before the war....