By Mariam Karouny and Khaled Yacoub Oweis BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi’ites kidnapped in Syria had been
(Reuters) – Syrian rebels killed 23 government soldiers on Monday, activists said, and efforts to find a viable political alternative to Bashar al-Assad faltered when
By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian forces foiled an attempted suicide car bombing with 1,200 kg (2,640 pounds) of explosives in the northern city
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have condemned the deadly bomb blasts in the Syrian capital, Damascus. State media said the double suicide
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrians cast ballots Monday in parliamentary elections billed by the regime as key to President Bashar Assad’s political reforms, but the
By Mariam Karouny DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Two bombs detonated on a central Damascus highway on Saturday, destroying nine cars, residents said, in a further sign
(Reuters) – Syrian security forces and students with knives attacked a protest against President Bashar al-Assad at Aleppo University early on Thursday, killing at least
By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least eight people, mostly Syrian military personnel, were killed and about 100 wounded on Monday in bomb blasts
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian state-run newspaper accused U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday of encouraging “terrorist” rebel attacks by