(The New York Times)- The lime-green buses once ferried Syrians to school, work and dates at Damascus cafes. Now they pull up at moments of defeat, when rebel fighters and civilians, besieged and bombarded, give up their territory to government forces and board the vehicles en route to an...

Syrian opposition forces have captured the village of Manyan near the entrance of the New Aleppo district of the besieged city of Aleppo, opposition sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday. The move comes as part of a military operation launched last Friday by opposition factions...

(the Daily Star)-  The UN Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of a panel investigating chemical attacks in Syria for two weeks to allow time to negotiate a one-year renewal of the probe. The council unanimously backed a US-drafted resolution on the short extension as a...

Egypt's state news agency says the country's oil ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Iraqi counterpart to pave the way for Egypt to import oil from Iraq. Oil Minister Tarek el-Mulla was quoted by MENA on Monday as saying that the agreement will "open the doors" for...