Despite a forthcoming review of options in the deteriorating  Syria  crisis, the White House on Tuesday signaled that President  Barack Obama  remains wary of any direct U.S. involvement in the three-year-old civil war. U.S. policy toward  Syria...

A large explosion near an Iranian cultural center in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Wednesday killed at least four people and wounded 19, security sources said. Security sources said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a car bomb and a motorcycle...

Hundreds of people from the besieged city of Homs have demonstrated Tuesday against recent truce agreed with Bashar al-Assad regime, saying it is a new conspiracy against Syrian people to end the revolution and to get the benefits of starvation policy, activists said....

In video statement posted online a group of 9 Free Syrian Army commanders said Gen. Salim Idriss dismissal is void, accusing the opposition Interim Defence Ministry of dispersing the rows of Joint Chiefs of Staff and revolutionary groups on the battlefields. The...