By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's government begged the world for help on Wednesday to rebuild a healthcare system it said had been destroyed by "terrorists", despite reports by U.N. officials that Syrian government forces were largely to blame for the damage. In...

Translation by Dani Murad During the Syrian revolution, a number of Syrian officers have defected from the regime to either join the revolution side or to flee to other countries, and recently some of them switched sides to join Assad’s forces again...

BEIRUT (AP)— The Syrian army inched closer to seizing a central prison in the contested northern city of Aleppo Wednesday, with intense artillery shelling and military aircraft dropping dozens of crude bombs in the area and killing at least 50 rebel fighters, Syrian state media and...

(Reuters) - Heavily armed gunmen stormed Libya's parliament with anti-aircraft weapons on Sunday in an assault claimed by forces loyal to a renegade ex-general who has vowed to purge the country of Islamist militants. In a confusing, chaotic attack, heavy smoke rose from the...