Western and Arab countries have agreed to give urgent military support to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, and to channel that aid through a Western-backed rebel military command. In a statement following talks in Qatar on Saturday, ministers from...

    During his more than four decades in power, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya was North Africa’s outrageously self-styled arms benefactor, a donor of weapons to guerrillas and terrorists around the world fighting governments he did not like. Even after his...

An epidemic of measles is sweeping through parts of northern Syria, with at least 7,000 people affected because the ongoing civil war has disrupted vaccination programmes, Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday. "The main factor leading to the worsening of the situation and to outbreaks has...

France  made its largest medical delivery to northern  Syria  on Friday, including  antidotes  for nerve agents, as rebels prepared to fight off an assault on the city of  Aleppo  by forces loyal to  President Bashar al-Assad . France, which has...