The commandos infiltrated Syrian rebel-held territory near the Lebanese border, watching rebel fighters come and go from a two-story villa before slipping inside to plant a powerful bomb. The next morning, they detonated it as three rebel explosive experts and four assistants met...

About 65 percent of Syria's chemical weapons have been removed so far, Syria-based joint mission of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Monday. The statement said that the 13th consignment of chemical arms was delivered to Syria's Latakia...

Turkey urged executives from Twitter to open an office and start paying Turkish tax on Monday in the first direct talks since a two-week ban imposed on the site as the government battled a corruption scandal. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government blocked Twitter and...

Syrian regime forces have reclaimed the ancient Christian hamlet of Maaloula, near Damascus, and seized a rebel-held town near the border with Lebanon, agencies reported on Monday. A security official told Agence France-Presse that the Syrian army retook Maaloula four months...