The U.N.’s humanitarian chief called Saturday for a cessation of hostilities in a Damascus suburb besieged for months by the Syrian army, so that food and vital medical aid can be delivered, Agence France-Presse reported. Some 3,000 people were evacuated from the area of...

At least 16 members of Syria's security forces were killed by a suicide vehicle bomber and ensuing clashes with rebels at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on Friday, an opposition monitoring group said. Syrian state television reported the blast but did not specify a death...

  Two policemen were killed in a clash with a “terrorist” group west of the Tunisian capital on Thursday, the interior ministry said.   “Two National Guard agents were killed and a third was wounded in a confrontation with an armed terrorist...

 An activist group says Syrian warplanes have been bombing the suburbs of Damascus while rebels have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday. Tuesday’s fighting shows how entrenched both sides in Syria’s civil war have become. Earlier...