The new U.S. chief envoy for Syria on Monday pledged continued American backing for political opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as   the country’s conflict   moves into a fourth year. “Assad will go to any length to maintain...

U.S. special forces have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port controlled by anti-government rebels, halting their attempt to sell crude on the global market. Gunmen demanding regional autonomy and a share of oil wealth had managed to load the ship, which...

Lebanon's army blew up a car on Monday in the border region with  Syria  which they suspected contained explosives and was being prepared for use in a bomb attack, security sources said. They said the car was found in a rural area between the Bekaa Valley villages of...

With the Ukraine crisis, any fleeting hope that the U.S. and Russia could soon broker a political settlement in Syria has vanished. The United States needs an alternate strategy for strengthening Syrian moderates who can resist both the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime and al-Qaeda...