An explosion struck the Christian Bab Touma district in the Old City of Damascus on Thursday in what  Syria n state television said was a suicide bombing. Opposition sources said it was a mortar attack. It was the first major blast reported inside the walls of the Old City, a UNESCO...

This week marked another grim milestone in Syria’s ongoing civil war when the death toll topped 100,000. But as hopes for a peaceful resolution fade, a window of opportunity may have opened with the election of Iran’s new moderate leader, the cleric Hassan Rowhani. ...

In the border towns where Syrian rebels recuperate and resupply, the buzz is that the long wait for Barack Obama may be near an end. The excitement is not the result of the White House announcement on June 13 that the United States will supply light weapons to the groups seeking to...

The Red Cross said on Thursday it was planning humanitarian operations for an extended conflict in  Syria  in the absence of any sign of a political solution and military stalemate between rebels and government troops. Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of...