The Iraqi government is taking measures to provide accommodation, food and security for a surging number of displaced Syrians in that country.   Iraq has received 210,000 Syrian refugees so far, a sudden increase from 160,000 just over a...

Agreement reached on wording of United Nations resolution on Syria after foreign ministers meet with secretary general The five permanent members of the UN security council reached an agreement on Thursday over the wording of "binding and enforceable" resolution to...

   It was Sept. 4, and the war drums were sounding in Syria. The United States appeared to be on the verge of launching strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Family members of the country's economic and political elite fled to Beirut, looking to avoid the cruise missiles....

Residents from a small rebel held town in Syria have enacted a satirical pantomime that mocks the West's response to last month's chemical weapons attack in Damascus. As  President Barack Obama  pursues a diplomatic track, demanding that the Syrian regime give up its chemical...