A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria's east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two villages besieged by insurgents. A Syrian rebel official and a government...

The fall of Aleppo is a human catastrophe. It’s also a demonstration of the perils of choosing the middle course in a military conflict. Sometimes it’s possible to talk and fight at the same time. But in Syria, the U.S. decision to pursue a dual-track, halfway approach made the mayhem worse....

Syrian regime claimed that a seven-year-old girl carrying a belt of explosives had rocked a police station in southeast Damascus on Friday, such a claim has been condemned by activists and opposition.  The explosion in the bustling Midan neighborhood of the Syrian capital wounded three...

(The Daily Star)- Demonstrators in north Lebanon Friday called for the expulsion of the Syrian, Iranian and Russian ambassadors to the country over the developments in the Syrian city of Aleppo, while mosques in the south performed absentee funeral prayers for those who were killed in the...