Fiji has announced it will send a further 380 troops to join a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights, lifting the Pacific nation's contribution to 562.   The move comes after several countries withdrew from the peacekeeping force due to escalating violence...

A car bomb rocked a stronghold of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, wounding at least 53 people and setting several cars ablaze in the most serious knock-on effect from Syria's civil war on its smaller neighbor since the Syrian crisis began,...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet  Davutoglu  received the newly elected interim Prime Minister of the Syrian National Coalition Ahmad Assi Jarba in Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday. Davutoglu  came together with Jarba at the ministry's residence where...

Tony Blair has criticised the "inaction" of governments that have failed to intervene in the conflict in Syria as he called for a no-fly zone in the region and said Britain should consider arming the rebels in the country. Mr Blair, the former Prime Minister, said that the...