Recruits attend a class to be trained as part of a police battalion under the Free Syrian Army's 'Farouq Omar Brigade' at their headquarters in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 11, 2013.
It isn't the U.S. cruise missiles that terrify Saleem, a pro-government militia fighter who survived some of the toughest battles of Syria 's civil war. It's the rebel onslaught that could begin once American bombs start to fall. Holed up on bases where loudspeakers blare patriotic...
Iran's foreign minister slammed potential US-led airstrikes against Syria as "illegal" on a visit to Baghdad Sunday, while his Iraqi counterpart warned they would hinder efforts towards a political solution. Mohammad Javed Zarif said military action was barred under the United Nations...
The border crossing between Syria and Lebanon was frantic on Tuesday, as it had been for many months. But, unusually, amid the hordes of people at passport control on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa crossing were queues of well-heeled Syrians – types not often on the...
