Establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrian rebels would require hundreds of U.S. aircraft at a cost as much as $1 billion per month and no assurance that it would change the momentum in the 2-year-old civil war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday in a cautionary assessment...

Syrian rebels seized a strategic village on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, activists said, just a day after opposition fighters sustained some of their heaviest losses in months in battles to the south near Damascus. Government troops killed at least 75 rebels in and...

 Palestinian Activists have appealed all Palestinian parties and organizations concerned with the issue of Palestinian refugees like the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Palestinian Authority, for an immediate intervention to protect the Palestinian people inside al-Yarmouk...

The U.S. and European Union are seeing an increasing number of radicalized young Muslims going to  Syria  to fight, a development that raises the danger that they will return to conduct terrorist attacks at home. The war is providing both a rallying point and a training ground for...