Gulf Arab states called on the U.N. Security Council on Monday to meet urgently to prevent a massacre in Homs, as pro-government forces in  Syria  try to wrest the city from rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad. Assad's army and allied fighters launched an...

Syrian rebels in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday threatened to seize two Shi'ite Muslim villages that back President Bashar al-Assad unless they surrendered to the opposition. Activists say both Nubl and Zahra villages had been reinforced by Assad's allies in the...

A senior U.S. official denounced Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war Monday and accused the Shiite militant group of putting the interests of Iran and Syria above those of the Lebanese people. Underscoring growing sectarian bitterness, mainly Sunni rebels vowed to "liberate" two...

 Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee  Syria .  Iraq ,  Jordan , and Turkey  have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of...