Twin blasts in the northwestern  Pakistan  city of Peshawar killed 33 people and wounded 70 on Sunday, a week after two bombings at a church in the frontier city killed scores, police and hospital authorities said. Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in...

  Sen. John McCain has hired a controversial Syria analyst who recently was fired by one D.C. organization and resigned from another after it emerged that she inflated her academic credentials.   The Republican senator's office confirmed to Fox News...

      For the first time, Abo Anas, Emir of Jabhat al-Nusra in western Dara’a, appeared for public on opposition satellite channel, Free Syrian Army (FSA) TV, nearly 30 minutes to talk about the liberalization of the old border crossing with Jordan....

The UN refugee agency on Friday welcomed this week's announcement by Brazil's National Committee for Refugees (CONARE) of special humanitarian visas for Syrians and other nationals affected by the Syrian conflict and who wish to seek refuge in Brazil. "The decision will help expedite...