The Ministry of Interior has blacklisted nearly a dozen Lebanese journalists for suspected links to Hezbollah. Five Lebanese journalists in Kuwait will not have their residencies renewed and two others were given one month to leave the country, Al Rai Arabic newspaper reported yesterday. Other...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia could scale up its military presence in Syria again within hours and would still bomb terrorist groups there despite a partial draw-down of forces ordered after military successes. Speaking in one of the Kremlin's grandest...

The U.N. envoy for Syria says significant gaps remain between the sides taking part in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva. Staffan de Mistura emerged Thursday from the fourth day of talks to tell reporters that "the distance between the two sides is large." De Mistura is shuttling...

A U.N. official in Syria says that despite the Russian troops' drawdown, the mission is looking to for continued help from Russia on aid deliveries in the war-torn country. Jan Egeland, supervisor of U.N. humanitarian aid shipments, says he hopes Russia will remain as...