The United States could not have stopped the humanitarian crisis in Syria with military strikes, President Barack Obama said in a television interview airing on Friday, and said U.S. troops had reached their limits after long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama was...

    Syrian opposition interim government said in statement posted online Friday that it will pay 500,000 dollars as subvention to rebels who are making gains in coast battles. The decision was the outcome of  the weekly meeting of the National Coalition...

It is already past lunchtime and souvenir shop owner Halil Santoglu has yet to make a sale - a frequent complaint these days in this once bustling bazaar as the war in nearby  Syria wreaks havoc with the  economy  of Turkey's southern borderlands. Santoglu and...

Journalist Moayyad Skaif has accused Syrian reconciliation minister of c omplicity in the murder of his family members in Assad's prisons. On his Facebook page, Skaif accused Ali Haidar of conspiracy to arrest members of his families, in particular Bassel Skaif, and he...