Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament's approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to NATO for help. Putin's open assertion of the right to send troops to a country of 46...
Bashar al-Assad's forces and allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah stepped up attacks on Syria's strategic border town of Yabroud on Saturday, activists said, in apparent preparation for a new offensive to flush out rebels. More than 10 air strikes had already hit the...
An interview with a survivor of the mass killing earlier this week in Otaiba, outside Damascus, may resolve whether “175 insurgents” were slain — the claim of the Syrian military — or whether the dead are civilians. The man says the attacked group consisted of 175 people,...
A 13-minute montage of insurgents battling regime forces in Daraa, near the Jordanian border — the city was the birthplace of the Syrian uprising in March 2011 and would be central to insurgent control of southern Syria. EA World View
