A suggestion by Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil Friday that refugee camps be set up along the country's border with Syria was swiftly rejected by Damascus's ambassador. Bassil "met ambassadors from the powerful five permanent members of the UN Security Council today...

Syrian opposition leader Friday said the Interim Government's decision to dissolve the Supreme Military Council is void since it’s out of the government powers. Both Ahmad Jarba and SMC commanders have denounced Ahmad Tumah’s decision to dissolve...

  Russia's U.N. ambassador said Thursday there is a real prospect of a terrorist state springing up from Syria's second-largest city Aleppo to Iraq's capital Baghdad. Vitaly Churkin pointed to the rapid advance of al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists from...

  Human Rights Watch said Thursday that fighters inspired by Al-Qaeda had executed Iraqi soldiers en masse this month in Tikrit. In mid-June, militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) posted photos online of what they claimed to be...