Rebel Free Syrian Army seized Saturday two checkpoints near border village with Lebanon after ambushing forces loyal to Basher al-Assad and its backed militia Hezbollah, leaving 15 soldiers dead, Zaman Alwasl source said. The one-week skirmishes have taken place near Al...

Syria's air force struck rebel-held areas near Damascus and Aleppo Saturday, a monitoring group said, as regime and opposition representatives met briefly in the same room in Geneva for peace talks. Government warplanes fired rockets at Talfita north of the capital, and helicopters...

  Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE, suffered a stroke on Friday morning, the state news agency WAM has confirmed.  A statement from the Ministry of Presidential Affairs said: “The Ministry announces that President His Highness Sheikh...

A helicopter crash in the restive Sinai Peninsula killed five Egyptian soldiers on Saturday, medics said. The military confirmed a helicopter had crashed and said a search was under way for its crew. It was not immediately clear how the aircraft came down, in an area used as a hub...