U.S. President  Barack Obama  will consider a wide range of options on  Syria  during meetings at the White House this week, a State Department spokeswoman said on Monday, expressing concern over a worsening situation in Syria. "A wider range of options...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will on Wednesday meet leaders of the Gezi Park platform, the group whose protests against the destruction of an Istanbul park have spiraled into a wave of anti-government protests that have rocked Turkey . "They asked to meet the prime minister and...

A decade after the   United States ’ invasion of Iraq ignited a season of deadly bloodletting between Sunni and Shia Muslims, this ancient divide in Islam is deepening throughout the   Middle East , aggravating political and ethnic tensions, inflaming emotions and...

  HERMEL,   Lebanon   — The strategic city of Qusayr in Syria has fallen to the Syrian Army, and the shock waves are still being felt in Lebanon, where increased fighting vividly indicates how Syria's 27-month-old civil war has destabilized the entire region....