Lebanon's army says it is "paying the price in blood" in the fight against "terrorism", after a suicide car bombing killed two soldiers and a civilian. Shiite movement Hezbollah also condemned Saturday's attack, calling the perpetrators "the enemy of all the Lebanese". Both...

  At least 14 people were killed Sunday when a car bomb went off near a hospital in the rebel-held Syrian town of Atmeh, near the border with Turkey, opposition activists said. The bomb exploded near Orient Hospital, run by an opposition activist group that also...

  Syria's opposition National Coalition has nominated veteran dissident Haitham al-Maleh to head Syria’s seat in the Arab League, Zaman Alwasl source said.  The political body Friday agreed on a proposal by Ahmad Jarba, NC leader, and Badr Jamous, secretary...

Assad's air force staged more air raids on the key rebel-held bastion of Yabrud north of Damascus, as clashes also raged on the capital's outskirts, a monitoring group told AFP news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that in the northeast, Kurdish fighters seized...