Each Saturday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice ,  President Obama ’s new national security adviser, gathered half a dozen aides in her corner office in the White House to plot America’s future in the Middle East. The policy review, a...

Syria's armed opposition in a statement posted on YouTube yesterday said Geneva II peace conference in no more than a conspiracy on the Syrian people. 19 factions, including the Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham assured their refusal for any solution will keep Bashar al-Assad or...

The death toll from a week of clashes in Lebanon between supporters and opponents of Syria’s regime has risen to 13, a security official said on Sunday. Two people died in clashes on Saturday and another two were killed early on Sunday in the northern port city of Tripoli, the official...

Some five million Syrians are now refugees in their own country, many living hand-to-mouth in vacant buildings, schools, mosques, parks and the cramped homes of relatives. Others are trapped in neighborhoods isolated by military blockades, beyond the reach of aid groups. Already...