General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Tuesday that she did not learn details about defective GM cars linked to 12 deaths until January 31, just two weeks after she took over as CEO and nearly 13 years after GM engineers first documented problems. The automaker last...

Iran  and six world powers sought on Tuesday to make headway toward resolving their decade-old nuclear dispute, with Western officials expressing hope the talks would not be further complicated by the  Ukraine  crisis. So far, diplomats said, there is little...

  The United States on Tuesday formally notified the Syrian government that it must suspend operations at its embassy here and at its two consulates in Michigan and Texas, the State Department said. The move stops short of a formal break of relations, but it bars Syria...

 The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday called Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip a "crime against humanity", in an unprecedented rebuke of its Arab neighbor that further frays their worsening ties. The closures, that  Egypt...

 A roadside bomb wounded four Israeli soldiers patrolling the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, and  Israel retaliated with artillery fire on Syrian army positions, the army said. It was not clear who had planted the bomb in an area where the Syrian military, Lebanese...

 Deputy head of the National Party for the justice and constitution, WAAD (en:promise) denied claims saying that Syria's Muslim Brotherhood movement stands behind the party formation.  Nabil Kassis  accused media of their attempts to show the party, ...

  A Syrian national was found dead on Tuesday morning near the Lebanese University in Fanar. The expression “in retaliation for Yabroud and Syria” was written in blood across the body of the national. Lebanese Security forces rushed to the scene, cordoned...

Iran  and six world powers will try to make headway toward resolving their nuclear dispute in talks starting in Vienna on Tuesday, with Western officials hoping the uphill challenge will not be made even more difficult by the  Ukraine  crisis. So far, diplomats...

The co-pilot of a missing Malaysian jetliner spoke the last words heard from the cockpit, the airline's chief executive said on Monday, as investigators consider suicide by the captain or first officer as one possible explanation for the disappearance. No trace of Malaysia ...

  President Barack Obama on Monday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks for peace with Israel, saying he hoped to see progress in U.S.-brokered negotiations in coming weeks. In White House talks overshadowed by the Ukraine...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday recognizing Ukraine's Crimea region as a “sovereign and independent country,” just hours after the strategic Black Sea peninsula declared it had broken away from Ukraine. The moves triggered the toughest Western sanctions...

        “A unit of the armed forces released Monday 48 kidnapped civilians and military members, including officers, in al-Tabqeh area in Raqqa province,” Assad’s news agency (SANA) reported. The release operation was a result of a special...

    The new U.S. chief envoy for Syria on Monday pledged continued American backing for political opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as   the country’s conflict   moves into a fourth year. “Assad will go to any length to maintain...

U.S. special forces have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port controlled by anti-government rebels, halting their attempt to sell crude on the global market. Gunmen demanding regional autonomy and a share of oil wealth had managed to load the ship, which...

At least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded in a car bombing on Monday in Zahra'a, pro-regime neighborhood in ‪ the embattl ed city of ‎ Homs, which considered a main supply line for militants fighting with Bashar al-Assad, activists said. (Developing story)

Hassan, a university student from Aleppo, had no choice but to leave his education due to the escalating dangerous events in his city to join civil defense courses which are held periodically in Istanbul. University of Aleppo is a public university located in Aleppo, Syria....

Lebanon's army blew up a car on Monday in the border region with  Syria  which they suspected contained explosives and was being prepared for use in a bomb attack, security sources said. They said the car was found in a rural area between the Bekaa Valley villages of...

  German foreign Minister urged Syria’s opposition, in meeting took place last month with the interim PM Ahmad Toumeh, to accept Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the transitional governing period, well-informed source said. Mr. Frank Steinmeier, the veteran diplomat and German...

With the Ukraine crisis, any fleeting hope that the U.S. and Russia could soon broker a political settlement in Syria has vanished. The United States needs an alternate strategy for strengthening Syrian moderates who can resist both the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime and al-Qaeda...

At least three people were killed and six wounded when a suicide car bomber struck a petrol station in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley near the border with  Syria , a security source said. He said two of the dead were members of Hezbollah who had approached the vehicle in the town of...