Beirut (The Daily Star)- Lebanon should drop its new measures requiring Syrians to obtain permits to enter the country, Speaker Nabih said Thursday, according to the Syrian ambassador. Ambassador Ali Abdel-Karim Ali quoted Berri as telling him that "there should not be...

(Reuters) - The Syrian government said on Thursday the deadly attack on a magazine in Paris showed the danger of the kind of Islamist militancy espoused by insurgent groups fighting in the Syrian civil war. A government statement blamed "short-sighted European policies" for such...

(Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting positions and 980 buildings or barracks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Army Colonel Steve...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies dismissed on Wednesday the idea of relocating hundreds of thousands of storm-hit Syrian refugees across the Middle East, citing the large number of refugees, a shortage of funding and a lack of authority. As blizzards, rain and...