Shabiha militias have executed nine people by slaughtering them with knives in the village off Al Hara in Daraa Suburbs Wednesday morning, activists said. Among the martyrs, seven brothers and a father and his son, witnesses confirmed. Shabiha, who consist of local guard...

At least 17 civilians and soldiers were killed in car and roadside bomb attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, police and medics said. No group claimed responsibility for any of the attacks, but Sunni Islamists and other insurgents have been regaining ground in a violent campaign to...

They may have been whispering, but unbeknownst to Faisal al-Mokdad, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, and an official at the Syrian embassy in Geneva, the microphones did not disguise their sideline conversation during a press conference on Tuesday. The conversation sees the Syrian...

The Syrian opposition called on Wednesday for a transitional governing body to be set up that would oversee a total ceasefire under U.N. monitoring, and be empowered to drive out foreign fighters deployed on both sides of the civil war. The confidential paper, seen by Reuters, was...