The Syrian government, preparing for peace talks with rebels next week, handed the Russian co-sponsors of the conference a proposal on Friday for a local ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. There was no immediate response from President Bashar al-Assad's opponents, whose very...
A deadly rocket attack targeted the eastern Beqaa town of Arsal on Friday morning, killing at least seven people “Seven people have been killed and 15 others injured in the rocket attack on Arsal,” Lebanon’s state National News Agency reported....
A string of car bombs have hit the Islamist rebels' barracks and checkpoints, carried by the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) since the infighting has erupted two weeks ago. Suicide attacks and blasts seemed to be one of most dangerous war strategies by Al Qaeda...