The White House has condemned the assault on the Syrian border town of Qusayr by Syrian government forces, who worked with Lebanese Hezbollah allies to take control from rebel fighters . " The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the Assad...

Turkey's powerful populist leader Recep Tayip Erdogan shows no signs of flinching against masses of angry protesters who brand him a dictator, dismissing them as "a handful of vandals". Thousands have rallied, complaining that he is pushing conservative, Islamist-flavoured...

   I am on my knees, hands behind my head, on a border-crossing between Turkey and Syria. A Turkish border guard stoops over me menacingly, the nozzle of his Kalashnikov pressing against my upper thigh as he barks something in an unfamiliar language. What does he want? My...

The military chief of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels says his men are ready to fight Hezbollah militants inside neighboring Lebanon. according to his interview with BBC World. Gen Selim Idriss of the Free Syrian Army said that Hezbollah fighters were...