The UN warned on Sunday against revenge attacks in Iraq after two blasts killed 73 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad a day after a Sunni mosque was bombed.Saturday's bombings struck near funeral tents for a tribal sheikh in the Sadr City district of north Baghdad and also...

The president of the opposition Syrian Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, said the group would attend a proposed Geneva conference to end two and a half years of conflict in  Syria  if it aims to establish a transitional government with full powers. In a letter to the U.N. Security...

Now that it seems unlikely the U.S. will hit Syria militarily, the rebels need a new strategy. Jamie Dettmer reports on the tough odds facing the opposition. President Obama’s acceptance of a Russian-brokered proposal to strip Syrian president Bashar al-Assad of his...

  Lacking the example of local independent or uncensored media, it would be easy for Syria’s citizen journalists to play an activist role, especially when reporting on human rights abuses in their own country. Instead, they’re embracing the values of accuracy and unbiased reporting...