Thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah militants were massed around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, according to rebels and a senior commander in the Lebanese Shiite movement, broadening Hezbollah’s backing of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and stoking fears of an imminent...

  At least 300 seriously wounded residents of an embattled Syrian town near the border with Lebanon need to be evacuated for medical treatment, a doctor told The Associated Press on Monday, as fighting in Qusair raged for the third straight week. Kasem Alzein, who coordinates treatment...

  Four people were killed in clashes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday, security sources said, in more violence stoked by war in neighboring Syria .   The overnight clashes in Tripoli ended a week of relative calm after 29 people...

Syrian opposition forces have seized 400 kg explosives at a Syrian-Turkish border crossing point on Sunday, Turkey's private Dogan News Agency reported. The rebels seized the explosives at a vehicle trying to cross from Bab- El Hava border crossing point into southern Turkey. The Syrian...