Satellite photos have confirmed that a target attacked two weeks ago near the Syrian port of Latakia was a battery of advanced anti-aircraft missiles, according to the Israeli magazine, Israel Defense. The battery was in the process of upgrading that would have made...

At least two people were killed in a mortar attack on a church and a Christian school in the Syrian capital Damascus, activists said on Monday. The two shells were fired on the city's al-Qasssaa quarter and struck the Church of the Cross and St John's school, activists from...

  Turkish riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of demonstrators who were protesting Thursday over the building of a controversial wall on the border with Syria, witnesses said.   Police took action to disperse a large crowd of people who...

 Russian representatives and members of the Syrian opposition are set to meet in Geneva Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Russian media. "We will hold a whole series of contacts with the Syrian opposition," he was quoted as saying late Tuesday by the Interfax...