Jordanian border guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a large amount of ammunition from Syria and arrested five people early Monday, the army said. "Border guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a large amount of ammunition and other material from Syria...

Air raids on rebel-held towns across  Syria  killed 26 people on Monday, activists said, two days after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to indiscriminate shelling and aerial attacks. Syria's almost three-year-old conflict has raged on...

Syrian intelligence has freed Akram al-Bunni, t he prominent leftist writer and former political prisoner  o n Monday ,  his brother Anwar said on his Facebook page. Al Bunni   was abducted as he left a wedding reception at a central Damascus hotel on...

Egypt's government resigned on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. After the July overthrow of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and subsequent crackdown...