The fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt  has put a new spring in the step of Bashar al-Assad, who sees it as a sign that Islamists - including those spearheading the Sunni-dominated rebellion against him - are in decline. Exuding confidence after a recent successful army...

Nora Husari worked at a beauty salon before the war in Syria broke out. Today, she carries an AK-47 and plays a deadly game of cat and mouse in the bombed out remains of her former home. "I've seen children and women crying in front of my eyes because Bashar al-Assad killed their...

A car bomb rocked a stronghold of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, wounding at least 53 people and setting several cars ablaze in the most serious knock-on effect from Syria's civil war on its smaller neighbor since the Syrian crisis began,...

Several people were killed or wounded when a car bomb hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a stronghold for the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria's civil war, medics said. Tensions in Lebanon have been high following the intervention of...