As the Syrian civil war deepened and anti-government rebels struggled to unify their fractious forces, the White House early last year quietly convened an elite group of senior policymakers to advise President  Barack Obama . Their unusual mandate: think outside the box on how to...

Dozens of Mohamed Morsi's supporters were killed Saturday in Egypt's capital as violence erupted at mass rallies for and against the ousted Islamist president, medics and the Muslim Brotherhood said. The bloodshed came hours after the military-backed interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim,...

Main Syrian opposition called on the UN security council to apply greater "international pressure" on  Bashar al-Assad to halt the country's bitter conflict. But the first meeting between the Syrian National Coalition and the 15-member security council on Friday highlighted...

Community activists say refugees face harassment over their presumed support for ousted president's Muslim Brotherhood Syrian refugees in  Egypt  are bearing the brunt of a sudden wave of xenophobia, in one of the more unexpected side effects  of the removal  of...