An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from its list of terror threats to U.S. interests, despite both being consistently included as threats in...

(Reporting by Abu Abdullah al-Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Free Syrian Army arrested number of its fighters during a defection attempt in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus to join regime forces last Saturday, rebel source said. Abu Abdul...

(Reuters)- The European Union and France denied any change in Western policy on Syria on Monday after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition there. French Foreign...

Moscow invited the U.N. envoy for Syria to a second round of meetings scheduled for the beginning of April between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government, Interfax reported on Monday citing a deputy foreign minister. The first round of Moscow talks were...