DAMASCUS- At least 23 people were killed in violence in Syria on Friday, most of them civilians in the restive city of Homs, as Human Rights Watch accused the regime of crimes against humanity....

SANAA, Jamal al-Jabiri- Government forces shelled a protest site in the city of Taez on Friday, killing 15 civilians, medics and witnesses said, as a UN envoy aimed to revive efforts to resolve...

NICOSIA- A young girl and six soldiers were among 21 Syrians killed on Thursday as security forces pressed a crackdown on protests and in clashes between troops and army deserters, a human rights...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama's key Middle East advisor Dennis Ross said Thursday he would resign after a tenure marked by stalled US peace moves, turmoil in the Arab world...

WASHINGTON, Olivier Knox- Arab leaders are privately telling the United States that they have offered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad asylum in a bid to get him to step down, a top US diplomat told...

BENGHAZI- Revered Lebanese spiritual leader Musa Sadr, who went missing in Libya in 1978, was "liquidated" at the time, a former aide to Moamer Kadhafi said Wednesday. The fate of the Iranian-born...

DAMASCUS- The Arab League on Tuesday came under mounting pressure to act after Syria's regime failed to implement its peace blueprint and tightened a bloody siege on the flashpoint city of Homs....

DAMASCUS- Syria's regime on Monday urged the Arab League to help it against the US, which it accused of involvement in "bloody events," as the opposition called for the "international protection" of...

CAMP VICTORY, W.G. Dunlop- The small cell concealed in a bombed-out villa is dusty now, has no electricity, and its door and toilet are gone, bound for a US museum. But it once held Iraqi president...