Syrian forces seized a suburb of Damascus on Thursday from rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in a push that has shored up government control of the capital's outskirts, state television reported. Assad's forces, backed by Shi'ite fighters from Lebanon,  Iraq...

A Dutch court has found two men guilty of preparing to travel to Syria to fight with rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad, verdicts prosecutors say will help other such cases in the future. Wednesday's convictions by a court in Rotterdam are the first in the Netherlands...

Islamist rebels battled Syrian government forces on Tuesday to retain control of Sadad, the historic Christian town which the insurgents has stormed a day earlier, residents said, according to Reuters. "There is a huge on-off battle here now, the army even used fighter jets," said one female...

A 12-year-old student armed with a handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school on Monday shortly before classes were due to begin, police said. Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the...