Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad launched a military offensive on Saturday against rebel-held areas of Homs, the country's third-largest city and a centre of the two-year-old uprising against his rule. Activists said jets and mortars pounded rebel territory and soldiers attacked the...

Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political group in Lebanon with a militant wing the United States defines as a terrorist organization. With significant support from Iran and Syria, Hezbollah maintains an extensive security apparatus, political organization, and social services network in Lebanon,...

  Syria's military pounded rebel bastions in Damascus on Tuesday and   Saudi Arabia   demanded an arms embargo on what it called President Bashar al-Assad's genocidal and illegitimate regime. Attacking  Iran , Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah for supporting Assad,...

An epidemic of measles is sweeping through parts of northern Syria, with at least 7,000 people affected because the ongoing civil war has disrupted vaccination programmes, Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday. "The main factor leading to the worsening of the situation and to outbreaks has...