SARAQIB, Syria — The workers arrive by darkness, taking their stations at the vise and the lathe. Soon metal filings and sparks fly, and the stack of their creations grows at their feet: makeshift mortar shells to be fired through barrels salvaged from disabled Syrian Army tanks....

  An official source in the Syrian regime has stressed Sunday that Mohammad Morsi, by cutting off all ties with Syria, has joined the Israel-US-led band of conspiring and instigating against it. Syrian Arab news Agency SANA reported. The source pointed out that Morsi's...

  Saudi Arabia  plans to block Internet-based communication tool WhatsApp within weeks if the U.S.-based firm fails to comply with requirements set by the kingdom's telecom regulator, local newspapers reported this week. This month the Communications and Information...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, arriving in Britain ahead of an international summit set to be dominated by disagreement over the U.S. decision to send weapons to Syria's rebels, said the West must not arm fighters who eat human flesh. In  Syria , rebels fought back on Sunday...