BEIRUT- Human Rights Watch on Monday urged Syrian rebel groups to stop enlisting teenagers in their ranks and warned their foreign backers that they could be implicated in "war crimes". The New...

NEW YORK, Andre Viollaz- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Syria, in a rallying cry for action to end the country's devastating civil...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- The Iraq war, like a disease after a period of remission, has flared up again to besmirch American politics. Days ago, US politicians were eyeing the first national...

DAMASCUS- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday terrorism will strike back against the West and other countries that "supported" attacks in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Ever...

KIRKUK, Marwan Ibrahim- The rapid shift to Kurdish control in Iraq's ethnically mixed oil city of Kirkuk is a step toward a long-held dream for Kurds but has sparked fears among other groups. Kurdish...

ROME- The international community pledged Tuesday to support the Lebanese armed forces by training them to deal with any spillover of the Syrian crisis. "Countries including the United States, Saudia...

BAGHDAD, Prashant Rao- Iraq's premier fired several top security commanders in a major shake-up Tuesday as fighting approached Baghdad in a militant onslaught that the UN warned risked breaking up...

WASHINGTON, Jérôme Cartillier- Barack Obama returned to Washington on Monday after a brief family break in California to find himself confronted once again by the nightmare from which America thought...

BAGHDAD, Mohamad Ali Harissi- Iraq said Sunday it had "regained the initiative" against militants who seized vast swathes of territory, as former UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi blamed the crisis on...