Lebanese troops arrested the leader of the al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for a double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November, the defense minister told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. Maged al-Maged, the "emir" of the Abdullah...

 Jordan takes over the U.N. Security Council presidency on Wednesday, the first day of its two-year stint on a 15-nation body struggling to cope with conflicts in Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere. Jordan will join Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria...

     The Vatican announced Tuesday it would host a workshop early in the new year to brainstorm peaceful solutions to the ongoing civil war in Syria. The Vatican has invited leading figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Mohamed...

A story from the town of Adra, 12 miles north of Damascus, capturing the confusion, information & propaganda, and tragedy of Syria’s conflict…. The regime claimed on Sunday that it had evacuated more than 5,000 civilians from Adra, following an insurgent offensive in...