Medical sources reported that 13 civilians were killed on Wednesday, most of them from "Gharibi" family following the missile bombing of the Ariha city.  The sources pointed out that the shelling of the city accelerated after sudden withdrawal of the regime forces after the...

President Obama warned Wednesday that a potential U.S. military strike on Syria’s ruling regime in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on its own people would send “a pretty strong signal that they better not do it again.” In  an interview with PBS’s “NewsHour”...

  Kurdish rebels based in north Iraq Monday claimed to have killed seven Iranian soldiers in clashes last week near the Islamic republic's border with Iraqi Kurdistan.   "Iranian forces...attacked and swept the area near Sardasht," the PJAK said in a...

North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, a Japanese daily said Tuesday, as the US threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack. A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti Sar, left North Korea for Syria...