Egypt's interim government has pledged "decisive" action and ordered heightened security after armed men killed six soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint. The shooting on Saturday morning came two days after armed men killed a soldier in Cairo, as fighters once based in the Sinai Peninsula...

France will not "close its eyes" to the Syrian conflict despite other crises taking center stage, French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday, promising to increase efforts to reach a political solution. More than 140,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million have...

 Syria rebels in Qalamoun have denied reports that Assad’s forces entered the embattled city of Yabroud. “Yabroud did not fall,” Yabroud local coordination said in statement posted online, “Assad's forces and Iran proxy Hezbollah have retreated due to the patriotic resistance of...

Syria's parliament has set residency rules for presidential candidates, state media said on Friday, a move that would bar many of President Bashar al-Assad's foes who live in exile as the uprising in the major Arab state enters its fourth year. Assad has not yet announced...