Syria's Sana state news agency said the "heroic armed forces have returned security and stability to all of the town". Sana said a large number of "terrorists", as the state refers to the rebels, had been killed and many had surrendered. It said the army was now destroying...

    Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, President of the World Union of Muslim Scholars, has called for   al-Jihad in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, calling for supplying Syrian men by arms and support. Al-Qaradawi revealed that al-Assad had asked Khaled Meshaal,...

At least eight Hezbollah fighters were killed on Tuesday in fighting against Syrian rebels near Damascus, Free Syrian Army chief of joint staff Salim Idriss told Al Arabiya. In southern Lebanon, thousands of Hezbollah supporters held funerals for two fighters who were killed while fighting...

  The UN refugee agency on Tuesday said it has been seeing small numbers of refugees arriving in eastern Lebanon after escaping from the embattled Syrian town of Al Qusayr, where heavy fighting flared up three weeks ago.   The refugees, mostly women and...