DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Syria's government has responded with "constructive interest" to a UN proposal to suspend fighting in the second city of Aleppo, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Tuesday. An...

LONDON, UK- Britain will make "a significant contribution" to equip and train the moderate Syrian opposition to defeat both Islamic State extremists and the Damascus regime of President Bashar...

BAALBEK, LEBANON- The Lebanese army on Sunday arrested a Syrian rebel commander who was trying to enter Lebanon using fake documents, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The army...

BERLIN, GERMANY, Deborah Cole- Thousands of illuminated balloons sailed into the night sky Sunday from the former route of the Berlin Wall, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said its fall 25 years...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- The popular Turkish resort of Antalya has barred unauthorised refugees from conflict-torn Syria in a bid to prevent a possible refugee wave, local media reported on Saturday. The...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Stuart Williams- Turkey is pursuing a delicate but dangerous strategy after allowing peshmerga fighters to transit its soil to the besieged Syrian town of Kobane, fearing Kurdish...

WASHINGTON, US- US air raids in Syria overnight targeted and likely killed a French bombmaker who was a leader of an Al-Qaeda offshoot accused of plotting attacks on the West, a defense official said...

AMMAN, JORDAN- Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel on Wednesday and moved to file a UN complaint after police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque...

WASHINGTON, US- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that it was too soon to say whether a US-led military coalition has the upper hand against the Islamic State jihadist group in Iraq and Syria. "I...