When Lebanon's Hezbollah first joined Syria's war on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, its role was a closely guarded secret. Today, as Hezbollah plants its flag in land won from rebels north of Damascus, its role could hardly be more public. And for Syria's increasingly embattled...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Lebanese Army has exceeded all the red lines in the bad treatment of Syrian refugees, they even forced a woman to get out of the bathroom naked beside humiliating children and women.  Sheikh Hosam Ghali, member of the International Union for Muslim...

Syrian Islamist rebels on Sunday have seized control of strategic towns of al-Mastouma and al-Muqbela in Idlib province, pressing hard to capture a nearby military camp, activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups including the Nusra Front want to cut a supply route links Ariha town with...

Turkey does not make friends with those who sentence their democratically-elected president to death, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday. Addressing an election rally of the ruling Justice and Development, or AK Party, in Istanbul's Maltepe Square, Davutoglu called the...