A senior Hezbollah commander,   speaking to Martin Chulov of The Guardian , explains the reason for the Lebanese organization’s intervention alongside the Assad regime this spring: We are defending our lands. We are defending our interests. If the takfiris...

        A member of a prominent opposition group demanded Monday that the National Coalition leadership resign en masse for its failure to defend Syrians inside the country. The proposal was made by Marwan Hajjo Rifai, a founding member of the Syrian...

  Lebanese troops arrested the leader of the al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for a double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Lebanon in November, the defense minister told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. Maged al-Maged, the "emir" of the Abdullah...

 Jordan takes over the U.N. Security Council presidency on Wednesday, the first day of its two-year stint on a 15-nation body struggling to cope with conflicts in Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere. Jordan will join Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria...