BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks against the rulers of Saudi Arabia in a speech purported to be in his name on Thursday, saying his self-declared caliphate was expanding there and in four other Arab countries....

(Reuters) - Syria's neighbors Lebanon, Turkey , Jordan and Iraq are cutting back sharply on the number of Syrians they allow onto their soil as they can no longer cope with the influx of refugees, two prominent humanitarian agencies said on Thursday. The number of refugees...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his...

(Reuters) - About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq , and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle...