WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is creating a vigorous vetting process to weed out undesirables among the Syrian rebels it will train to fight Islamic State, but some of the new recruits will be familiar faces requiring far more limited screening....

BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least six Lebanese soldiers when they attacked an army patrol near the border with Syria on Tuesday, the army and a Lebanese security source said. The source said the gunmen crossed from Syria to the...

(AFP)- Syria's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. "We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Beirut (AFP) - The Syrian regime and several key opponents have agreed to move towards new peace talks mediated by Russia, sources on both sides told AFP. The initial agreement came after separate delegations led by prominent opposition figure Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib and Foreign...