With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the frontline, Syria's civil war is also playing out in...

A British-Syrian TV pundit is threatening to sue social media users who slander her or threaten her life after her recent controversial views regarding  not allowing Syrian refugees to come to Britain  were aired on a BBC program. Halla Diyab, a writer and producer based in...

    A suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van in Beirut’s southern district of Choueifat on Monday, killing at least two people, the state news agency reported. Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the suicide bomber was trying to reached the Hezbollah...

The death toll from regime airstrikes on Syria's Aleppo has risen to 85, a monitoring group said Sunday, as the conflict grinds on after 10 days of inconclusive peace talks. The latest fighting came as a suicide car bomb in a Hezbollah stronghold across the border in Lebanon killed...