(Reuters) - In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards. Endlessly shared on...

  At least 300 seriously wounded residents of an embattled Syrian town near the border with Lebanon need to be evacuated for medical treatment, a doctor told The Associated Press on Monday, as fighting in Qusair raged for the third straight week. Kasem Alzein, who coordinates treatment...

   Turkey  has become an unlikely new source of vital diesel for the  Syrian regime  according to  shipping documents  and sources. Private  Turkish oil company   Aves , from the Mediterranean port city of Mersin, has loaded seven cargoes of ...

  Four people were killed in clashes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday, security sources said, in more violence stoked by war in neighboring Syria .   The overnight clashes in Tripoli ended a week of relative calm after 29 people...