(Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members are considering a draft resolution to authorize cross-border aid deliveries into Syria at four points without government consent, diplomats said on Thursday, after an earlier council demand for greater access was ignored. The 15-member...

(Al Arabiya News)- A former officer in Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards has been killed in fighting in Syria, Iranian media reported. Abdollah Eskandari had travelled to Syria, allegedly to defend the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in Damascus, a Shiite center of pilgrimage,...

Hundreds of Syrians living in Lebanon have lined up outside their embassy near Beirut to vote ahead of their country’s June 3 presidential election as expat balloting was extended for another day. President Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to get a third seven-year term in the...

The next few weeks and months could be decisive in destroying what remains of Syria's weapons of mass destruction. A quarter of the arsenal still remains with Assad and his regime wants to keep enough of that to threaten the world. On Tuesday, Syria’s state-run news agency reported...