Syrian activists and officials said mortars were fired early on Saturday in the besieged Old Homs district in violation of a ceasefire that is intended to allow the evacuation of civilians and delivery of aid to people trapped in central neighborhoods. There were no immediate...

Two roadside bombs exploded near a patrol car in Cairo Friday, and police fired tear gas at supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Alexandria, security officials in Egypt said. One policeman was slightly wounded when his patrol car was hit by two roadside bombs in a Cairo...

    The Turkish armed forces attacked a convoy of al Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire on Tuesday, destroying three vehicles, Turkish media said on Wednesday. Turkish troops opened fire on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...

  They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed. All now stand in ruins, ravaged by a war that is not only killing generations of...