BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese parliamentarians failed on Monday in their sixth attempt to elect a new president, extending the political vacuum that emerged when former President Michel Suleiman's term ended two weeks ago. The deadlock comes as the spillover from neighboring...

ALEPPO (The Daily Star)- At least 40 people, including women and children, were killed during operations allegedly carried out across Syria Sunday by forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar Assad, according to opposition activists. Air and land operations involving heavy...

The scale of the Syrian tragedy is immense. The story is often reduced to numbers: deaths, refugees, sick and wounded. Behind these figures are real people. Rabab Sabbagh, an early revolutionary from Homs, is relatively privileged; she has a job and lives in a proper...

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