Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem is scheduled to undergo bypass surgery after being admitted to a Beirut hospital, medical sources said Friday. The sources told The Daily Star that Moallem is in stable condition at the American University of Beirut-Medical Center's intensive...

Argentine and FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi has also turned to Facebook to raise awareness for the suffering of Syrian children after his rival  Cristiano Ronaldo  took a similar move earlier Wednesday. Messi wrote on his Facebook page: “Don't let the #childrenofsyria...

Syrians in the Damascus district of Yarmouk are being forced to eat dogs, cats and inedible plants, a new Amnesty International report released on Monday has found. Starvation is being used as a “weapon of war,” Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Middle East and North...

Protesters clashed with police in Turkey's two biggest cities on Tuesday after the death of a 15-year-old boy who was hit in the head by a tear-gas canister during anti-government demonstrations last summer. Police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds in Istanbul and...