Inside a furniture-free caravan in the Jordanian desert, sixteen women and girls and a plump boy wedge themselves in a circle around a 15 -year-old girl and a woman doing her hair. The hairdresser combs through one-inch sections, spraying on a fixative before twisting...

  U.S. intelligence agencies have identified three Russian amphibious warships in the eastern Mediterranean that are believed to be carrying weapons shipments that might be used to resupply the Syrian regime, according to a Pentagon official told CNN. The official...

  The regime army has reportedly retaken the only border crossing between Israel and Syria, after rebels had captured it earlier in the day. The crossing in the Golan Heights lies in an UN-controlled demilitarized zone. Israeli and Syrian opposition sources said on...

   I am on my knees, hands behind my head, on a border-crossing between Turkey and Syria. A Turkish border guard stoops over me menacingly, the nozzle of his Kalashnikov pressing against my upper thigh as he barks something in an unfamiliar language. What does he want? My...