DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The middle-aged salesman sat glumly among an array of shorts, khaki leisure suits bedecked with gold belts and dresses with plunging necklines in the ancient Damascus bazaar — luxuries few can afford in today's Syria. He, like many traders, lost most of...

(Reuters) - When Sunni rebels rose up against Syria's Bashar al-Assad in 2011, Turkey reclassified its protégé as a pariah, expecting him to lose power within months and join the autocrats of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen on the scrap heap of the "Arab Spring". Assad, in...

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Two rigged cars were seized by the Lebanese Army during early morning raids Sunday in north Lebanon as the military regained control over the northern district of Minyeh, security sources told The Daily Star . The Army in a statement said it confiscated two...