Steady advances by insurgents on key fronts in Syria mean President Bashar al-Assad is under more military pressure than at any point in the four-year-old war. Losses in the north, east and south to groups including al Qaeda's Syrian arm and Islamic State may test Assad's hold...

At least four people were killed when dozens of tents at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley caught fire on Monday, Reuters said. Security sources initially said six people were killed. The witnesses who were in the camp said that four people including three children...

Turkey has lost control of its borders by opening them to Syrian refugees and been isolated on the world stage by meddling in the affairs of its neighbors, its main opposition leader said in an interview. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), said Turkey's...

“Who’s there?” asked Dr. Mohammad Farhat, director of Hamid Farhat Hospital in the Bekaa Valley town of Majdal Anjar. “The sick lady died last night,” said a man on the phone. “Yeah, I know she died, what do you want me to do?” Farhat replied. “They have 90 percent [of...