As the French arrange high-level meetings with the rebel leadership, the U.S. continues to maintain its distance. Gen. Idris talks with The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin. Despite the White House’s public announcement Wednesday that it would provide “military assistance” to the...

U.S. President Barack Obama faces what could be a frosty G8 meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday after the Russian leader clashed with the West over plans to arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. At their first private face-to-face meeting in a year, Obama will try to...

SARAQIB, Syria — The workers arrive by darkness, taking their stations at the vise and the lathe. Soon metal filings and sparks fly, and the stack of their creations grows at their feet: makeshift mortar shells to be fired through barrels salvaged from disabled Syrian Army tanks....

  An official source in the Syrian regime has stressed Sunday that Mohammad Morsi, by cutting off all ties with Syria, has joined the Israel-US-led band of conspiring and instigating against it. Syrian Arab news Agency SANA reported. The source pointed out that Morsi's...