Deputy U.N. mediator on Syria Nasser al-Kidwa told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that he was resigning, after repeated calls from the Syrian government for him to be removed. United Nations confirmedKidwa's “intention to leave his current position,...

  A double bomb attack in Aleppo carried out by al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), claimed the lives of at least 16 Syrian rebel fighters on Sunday, an NGO said. An ISIS fighter blew himself up at the headquarters of an Islamist...

A British-Syrian TV pundit is threatening to sue social media users who slander her or threaten her life after her recent controversial views regarding  not allowing Syrian refugees to come to Britain  were aired on a BBC program. Halla Diyab, a writer and producer based in...

Investigators are trying to track down surveillance video at a bank where a man told cops he witnessed what he believed was Philip Seymour Hoffman buying drugs from two men the night before his death. A man told police he saw the actor withdraw large amounts of cash at an ATM at a bank...