HERMEL,   Lebanon   — The strategic city of Qusayr in Syria has fallen to the Syrian Army, and the shock waves are still being felt in Lebanon, where increased fighting vividly indicates how Syria's 27-month-old civil war has destabilized the entire region....

 Turkey's deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government's violent crackdown on an environmental protest , a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the country's major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of  riot police...

  Human Rights watch confirmed a massacre committed by Syrian regime in Aleppo in its latest report.  ''At least 147 people whose bodies were found in the city of Aleppo’s river between January and March, 2013, were probably executed in government-controlled...

The two former close allies have also ceased military cooperation, effectively ending a warm relationship that saw Tehran provide weapons, technical know-how and military training to Hamas fighters. The rupture has been caused by Hamas's refusal to toe the Iranian line by supporting...