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...

Lebanon's army on Wednesday arrested a senior al Qaeda-linked militant described by security sources as a "mastermind of car bombs" that have targeted several Shi'ite areas in recent months. Security sources said the arrest of Naim Abbas could help uncover radical jihadi cells in...

The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday began debating a Western-Arab draft resolution that would demand humanitarian aid access to besieged areas in conflict-torn Syria, a text Russia has dismissed as "detached from reality." The text was prepared by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan,...

The top U.S. intelligence chief said on Tuesday the war in  Syria  had created an "apocalyptic disaster" and said he was convinced that documents alleging torture and murder in the conflict were authentic. National Intelligence Director James Clapper Was asked by...