The U.N.-backed tribunal set up to try the alleged killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri said Thursday it had indicted a fifth suspect connected with the 2005 Beirut bombing .   A pre-trial judge confirmed the...

 Syrian air raids on rebel positions in the northern Aleppo and southern Daraa provinces killed 30 people on Thursday, including civilians, a monitoring group said . With the world's attention trained on Syria's chemical weapons, set to be destroyed by...

40 militants from the Iranian-backed militias, Hezbollah and Abu al-Fadhel al-Abbas have been killed in rebels' ambush near the Shiite Shrine, Sayyedah Zeinab in Damascus suburbs.   Hezbollah have been battling alongside Syrian regime forces in an attempt to...

 When Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, made no annual address to the United Nations General Assembly last week for the first time ever, his unspoken message could hardly have been louder. For most countries, refusing to give a scheduled speech would count...