Fighting erupted when Iraqi police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in the western Anbar province on Monday, leaving at least 13 people dead, police and medical sources said. The camp has been an irritant to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite Muslim-led government since...

     The Lebanese army fired on Syrian aircraft that violated the country's airspace Monday, the first time Lebanon has done so since Syria's uprising broke out nearly three years ago, security officials said. The move suggests Beirut is trying to enforce...

 At least 15 Palestinians have died of hunger since September in a besieged refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees told AFP on Monday. "Reports have come in over the weekend that at least five Palestinian refugees in the besieged...

QAMISHLY, Syria, December 30 (UNHCR)-  Emergency winter aid airlifted to north-east Syria by the UN refugee agency in the past two weeks is being distributed to more than 50,000 vulnerable people in isolated areas. The UNHCR airlift from Erbil, Turkey, of some 300...