The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has received substantial imports of Iraqi crude oil from an Egyptian port in the last nine months, shipping and payments documents show, part of an under-the-radar trade that has kept his military running despite Western sanctions....

A powerful car bomb explosion has rocked a police headquarters in an Egyptian city north of Cairo, killing at least 14 people and injuring 120, officials said. The interim government accused the Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating the attack, branding it a "terrorist...

   A video showed the reunion of two siblings after the Syrian regime heavily shelled Hayan, a town in the northwestern province of Aleppo. In the video, a child begs for help to save his sister trapped under rubble. As a man pulls her free, the boy is heard...

  The only way to be assured that Syrian chemical weapons will not be used in the future is not through a military strike but through a successful international effort. Regardless of the  postponed congressional vote regarding the use of military force...