Syrian army troops have recaptured a strategic town in the south of Damascus from opposition forces on Wednesday, state media and a monitoring group reported.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army was backed by Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite militia in the assault on the...

    Turkish Chief of General Staff has said they responded to a mortar shell fired on Tuesday from Syria's Azaz/Parsa Mountain region with howitzer fire, Anadolu news agency reported. According to a statement released, the mortal shell fell on Turkish border town of...

I stopped to buy walnuts in Sidon last week from a sunburned man sitting on the pavement of the old souk. Like the walnuts – soft, almost creamy inside their iron-hard husks – he came from the Syrian town of Bloudan. In years gone by, I would take the steam train from the old Haj...

  Washington may press Iran to import nuclear fuel rather than make it, an official said as talks to end the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program were to begin. “We are prepared to talk about what President Obama said in his address at the U.N. General Assembly...