As the French arrange high-level meetings with the rebel leadership, the U.S. continues to maintain its distance. Gen. Idris talks with The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin. Despite the White House’s public announcement Wednesday that it would provide “military assistance” to the...

SARAQIB, Syria — The workers arrive by darkness, taking their stations at the vise and the lathe. Soon metal filings and sparks fly, and the stack of their creations grows at their feet: makeshift mortar shells to be fired through barrels salvaged from disabled Syrian Army tanks....

  Jouri was born with congenital disorder as result of chemical raid on al-Bayyada and al-Khaledia neighborhoods of Homs, year ago, laboratory analysis revealed .   Doctors who took biopsy from the 4-month-old in the Jordanian Hospitals said her leg should be...

King Abdullah II vowed Sunday to protect Jordan from the war in Syria, after the United States announced its warplanes and missiles will remain in the kingdom at the end of military exercises. "Should the world not act and help us adequately address this issue, and should this issue become a...