Lebanon's world famous Baalbek International Festival is looking to move away from the ancient city with its Roman ruins because of spillover violence from Syria's civil war, an official said Friday. The change of venue from Baalbek, where the annual music festival is usually...

Iran has stepped in to help Syria raise the value of its currency after it plummeted following the United States announcing plans to arm Syrian rebels. Before the Syrian civil war started more than two years ago, the Syrian pound was worth about 70 U.S. dollars; however, last week it was...

Neighbouring Iraq warned that Syria's civil war is tearing the Middle East apart and Lebanon's president urged his country's Hezbollah movement on Thursday to pull its fighters out of the conflict. After two years of fighting that has killed more than 93,000 people, Syria's turmoil...

Days after the deadly clashes between Kurdish forces of People Defense Units (YPG) and members of Free Syrian Army (FSA), the Kurds seized the control of the rural areas of Efrin, a Kurdish city in the north of the country, Firat news agency reported. .On vehicles Equiped with...