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) - Explosions and heavy fighting with anti-aircraft guns could be heard near two military camps in Libya's capital Tripoli early Wednesday, witnesses said, two days after gunmen had stormed parliament in the worst violence in months. Residents reported several loud...

Tartus has itself largely escaped the conflict in Syria, but posters of its sons killed fighting for the regime elsewhere in the country line the western city's main road. A wall in the central bus station is a tapestry of pictures of the dead, most of them young, posing in...