BEIRUT (AP) — The widowed Syrian mechanic had a new lease on life after he married his second wife: he enrolled in a high school, graduating at 60. The couple had five children, living in an impoverished quarter of a town in northern Syria. They all died after a missile smashed...

    The embattled neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs still a main target for Basher al-Assad’s sporadic mortar fire, activists reported. Assad’s forces have intensified efforts to overrun the last stronghold of Homs, Syria’s...

(Reuters) - From his base in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad can contemplate a broad sweep of Syria clawed back from rebels who once threatened to drive him out. The capital which they targeted is now plastered with posters inviting Syrians to reelect him president. Powerful...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Lebanon is under massive pressure as tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the war in neighboring Syria continue to stream in, likely reaching a total of 1.5 million people by the end of the year and heightening tensions in the tiny, overburdened country,...