Despite the slim pickings from a week of UN-brokered peace talks between Syria's warring sides, getting them to the table at all was a huge feat in itself. But for international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, that was all in a day's work in a job that requires patience,...

A senior al Qaeda operative based in Iran and known as Yasin al Suri (a.k.a. Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil) is "more active than ever" and facilitating al Qaeda's global operations,  Al Jazeera  reports . Al Suri's role as al Qaeda's point man inside Iran was first exposed by...

  The Lebanese army has seized a vehicle at a checkpoint between the Syria-Lebanon border near the northeastern Lebanese town of Arsal. Three men of unknown nationality were arrested after it was allegedly discovered that their car was full of arms and ammunition....

  Syria needs lots of things right now. One of them is George Clooney . Let me explain. As the Geneva II talks this week made clear, there is no end in sight for the bloody three-year war in Syria. In the meantime, more than 100,000 people have been...