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Car bomb kills 13 in Syria's Homs: monitoring group

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed when a car bomb exploded on a busy roundabout in the central Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Another 40 people were wounded in the explosion in the mainly Alawite...

Lebanon says arrests Syrian-born hardline preacher

BEIRUT, May 25 (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces arrested an influential Syrian-born Islamist cleric on Sunday who went into hiding last month after a crackdown in the northern city of Tripoli to end sectarian violence fuelled by civil war in neighbouring Syria. Omar Bakri,...

Two Israelis killed in Saturday Brussels shooting

(Reuters) - Two of the three people killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels on Saturday were Israeli tourists, Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry did not give further details on their identities on the...

Syria rebels, army agree on truce in Waer, Homs

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and government forces have agreed to a truce in an opposition-held area near the central city of Homs, activists said Saturday. The cease-fire, which started on Friday, comes as troops loyal to President Bashar Assad are trying to seize as many...