Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters captured Wednesday the last major town in the Qalamoun region near the border with Lebanon after weeks of intense fighting, state media and activists said. Syrian TV and Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar station said the town of...

The U.N. refugee agency says it has delivered aid to a rebel-held area of the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo in a "rare and risky" operation carried out in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent. UNHCR said in a statement Wednesday that the operation took place following an...

Kuwait expects to see "positive steps" taken in a dispute between Qatar and three other Gulf Arab states as soon as this week that may include a decision to send those countries' ambassadors back to Doha, a Kuwaiti official said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia , the United Arab...

Bashar al-Assad's Lebanese ally Hezbollah said his Western foes must now accept he will go on ruling Syria after fighting rebels to a standstill - a "reality" to which his foreign enemies seem increasingly resigned. Echoing recent bullish talk coming out of Damascus, Sheikh Naim...