DAMASCUS- Syrian forces bombarded Aleppo with barrel bombs and air raids for a second day Sunday, with 121 people killed in 48 hours, a monitor said, after peace talks ended inconclusively. At least...

DAMASCUS- The death toll in Syria's civil war has topped 136,000 after January saw one of the conflict's bloodiest months, an NGO said Saturday, as violence claimed yet more civilian lives. The...

JERUSALEM- Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted a rocket fired at Eilat Friday and destroyed it, police said, the second time the Red Sea resort has been targeted this month. The rocket...

NEW YORK, Jennie Matthew- The brutal aftermath of the once euphoric Egyptian revolution is on stark display in a powerful New York exhibition that lays bare grief, death and shattered hopes. Three...

GENEVA, Nina Larson, Jonathan Fowler- Syria's warring sides on Thursday got bogged down in a dispute over who was responsible for the violence in the country, as peace talks in Geneva focused on...

NEW YORK, Jennie Matthew- In Britain, wild swans may be prized for their beauty and protected by the Queen, but the US state of New York has declared war on them, branding them a violent menace....

CAIRO, Jay Deshmukh, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- Prosecutors in Cairo Wednesday said they were charging 20 Al-Jazeera journalists for portraying Egypt in a state of civil war, a day after an Al...

MOSCOW- A dispute between two Russians over the respective merits of poetry and prose ended up with one of them, a former teacher, stabbing his friend to death, investigators said Wednesday. The two...

BEIJING- A New York Times reporter was leaving Beijing Thursday after authorities did not grant him a visa, in a case that comes as Chinese authorities ratchet up pressure on foreign media. Austin...