Among the consequences facing U.S. President  Barack Obama  if he decides against arming Syria's rebels is that Arab and European states may step in more aggressively, perhaps further fracturing rebel forces. Having watched government forces seize the strategic town of Qusair...

Bill Clinton told Sen. John McCain he agrees that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully to support anti-Assad rebels in Syria, saying the American public elects presidents and members of Congress “to see down the road” and “to win '', according a report on the Politico...

 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from  Syria 's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and  Israel  in the disputed  Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable  U.N.  peacekeeping force there by more...

Several Kuwaiti supermarket chains have begun boycotting products from Iran for its support of the Syrian regime, while activists staged a demonstration against the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the conflict. At least nine cooperative consumer societies out of 50 in the...