Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah militants took full control of the town of Yabroud on Sunday after driving out rebels, helping President Bashar al-Assad secure the land route linking the capital Damascus to Aleppo and the Mediterranean coast. The fall of Yabroud, the last...

Egypt's interim government has pledged "decisive" action and ordered heightened security after armed men killed six soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint. The shooting on Saturday morning came two days after armed men killed a soldier in Cairo, as fighters once based in the Sinai Peninsula...

The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of...

Syria’s currently suspended seat at the Arab League will remain vacant until the opposition completes forming its institutions, the pan-Arab group’s secretary general said on Sunday. “The last Arab summit in Doha in March 2012 adopted the principle of granting Syria’s...