The United States said on Friday it would work with other nations to resolve Egypt's crisis peacefully, injecting new energy into a push to end a bloody standoff since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A day after saying the army had restored democracy by removing Mursi,...

  The security situation is more complicated in Jarmana, 10Km, southern Damascus, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. ''Large numbers of the pro-Assad militia (Popular committees) in the city with Druze majority, had delivered back their weapons to Assad Army,'' the source said....

Russia has dispatched another consignment of humanitarian aid worth $1.3 million to the Assad regime   The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the new batch, which was delivered to Damascus this week, includes medical equipment, clothes and food...

Two rockets landed in an area east of Beirut late on Thursday close to a military compound and Lebanon's presidential palace, security sources said. No one was hurt in the incident but it marked the second time in two months that rockets have been fired in the area, amid heightened...