Tension between Iraq's Shiite leaders mounted Sunday as the toll from protests in central Baghdad on Saturday increased to six killed, five demonstrators loyal to the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and one policeman. At least 174 other protesters were injured in clashes that pitted police and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy clashes are ongoing in the southern city of Daraa as regime and rebels forces engage after months of calm, opposition and pro-regime news feeds said. Free Syrian Army said it had thwarted regime attack to capture al-Manshiya neighborhood. Pro-regime Al-Masdar news...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least 19 civilians, including 6 children and a woman, have been killed in the 4-day-old offensive on al-Waer neighborhood of Homs city, local activists said as regime tightens the noose on the  residents of last rebel stronghold in the central city. 6...

Syrian government jets bombed a rebel-held district of Homs city on Wednesday killing several people, rescue workers and a monitoring group reported. The raids hit the al-Waer neighborhood, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service...