BAGHDAD: Just days after the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confronted Baghdad for continuing to

BEIRUT: Syrian state TV says 42 people have been killed and 84 wounded in a suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in Damascusthat also killed a top Sunni Muslim preacher

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers on Saturday after holding them hostage for four days, ending a sudden entanglement with the world body that earned fighters trying to oust

BAGHDAD: Dozens of Syrian soldiers who had crossed intoIraq for refuge were ambushed Monday with bombs, gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in an attack that killed 48 of them and heightened

AMMAN, Jordan: Syria’s president harshly criticized U.S. and British aid to rebels and set harsh terms for talking to his opponents in a newspaper interview published Sunday, as fighting raged

BEIRUT: A ferocious battle on the outskirts of the northern city of Raqa, near the Turkish border, killed dozens of Syrian troops and rebel fighters on Saturday, a watchdog reported.”Fierce

PARIS: New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held his first official meeting with France’s leadership amid increasing efforts by both countries to bolster Syria’s opposition. Kerry met Wednesday
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates: Turkey’s prime minister is urging the world to speak out about atrocities by Syria’s leader, whom he called a “mute devil” for carrying out attacks on his own

DAMASCUS, Syria: A car bombing near Syria’s ruling party headquarters in Damascus killed 53 people on Thursday, according to state media, while mortar rounds exploded near the army’s central command

BEIRUT: A Syrian missile strike leveled a block of buildings in an impoverished district of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, almost half of them children, anti-regime activists