Syrian troops fought with rebels in Homs on Monday in a battle seen as crucial to the government's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held areas and establish links between the capital and President Bashar al-Assad's coastal strongholds. Assad's forces have been on the...

 The military's overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt have sent Islamist parties around the region scrambling to preserve gains made in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings. The stunning reversal has...

The new president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Sunday he expected advanced weapons supplied by  Saudi Arabia  to reach rebel fighters soon and change their military situation, which he described as weak. Ahmad Jarba, who has close links to ...

The Syrian opposition has offered Assad's forces a truce for the duration of the holy month of Ramadan to stop fighting in the besieged city of Homs, Reuters reports citing Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba. In his first interview to the news agency since the vote, Jabra also said...