BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) -Syrian rebels advancing against government forces pushed close on Tuesday to the major city of Hama, ...

Surge in strikes have strained truce between Israel and Hezbollah. While insurgents in Syria make fresh gains against forces ...

By bne Gulf bureau Hundreds of Iran-backed Iraqi fighters have crossed into Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's ...

A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel ...

A sudden flare-up in the more than decade-old civil war in Syria has drawn international appeals for de-escalation. Read more ...