The new president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Sunday he expected advanced weapons supplied by  Saudi Arabia  to reach rebel fighters soon and change their military situation, which he described as weak. Ahmad Jarba, who has close links to ...

  The United States faces "a 10-year issue" in Syria as it weighs how deeply it wants to get involved the country's civil war, the top U.S. military officer    warned in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey told CNN's State of the Union that...

    Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Syrian troops unleashed some of the civil war's heaviest bombardments on the central city of Homs on Friday, pounding opposition-held areas with artillery and airstrikes for the sixth straight day, activists said to AP....

  The finger of blame which the Turkish government pointed at foreigners for orchestrating anti-government protests that rocked the country now appears to target foreign aid missions helping internally displaced Syrians.  Last week Turkish police raided offices of two...