BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army has carried out a series of airstrikes against a town in eastern Syria that was captured by fighters from an al-Qaida breakaway group a day earlier, killing 16 people, activists said Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 4 people on Saturday as helicopter gunships pounded rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said. Early today, 3 people have been killed in Deir Jammal village in Aleppo countryside and one other killed Kallaseh neighborhood....

  In his first appearance at an Iraqi Shi’ite channel since coming back home from Syria, a militia commander Abu Shad al-Jobouri threatened to crush rebels fighting Nouri al-Maliki. Photos of Al-Jobouri in Baghdad, who committed crime...

GENEVA (AP) — The countries generating the most refugees are all conflict zones. The three biggest refugee populations are from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, which together account for more than half of all the world's refugees, according to an annual report by the Geneva-based...