Despite a forthcoming review of options in the deteriorating  Syria  crisis, the White House on Tuesday signaled that President  Barack Obama  remains wary of any direct U.S. involvement in the three-year-old civil war. U.S. policy toward  Syria...

Ukrainian protesters poured on to a central Kiev square on Wednesday, preparing to confront police anew after the bloodiest day since the former Soviet republic, caught in a geopolitical struggle between  Russia  and the West, won its independence. After hours of...

Hundreds of people from the besieged city of Homs have demonstrated Tuesday against recent truce agreed with Bashar al-Assad regime, saying it is a new conspiracy against Syrian people to end the revolution and to get the benefits of starvation policy, activists said....

In video statement posted online a group of 9 Free Syrian Army commanders said Gen. Salim Idriss dismissal is void, accusing the opposition Interim Defence Ministry of dispersing the rows of Joint Chiefs of Staff and revolutionary groups on the battlefields. The...