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Israeli warplanes has struck areas in and around the Syrian capital, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of missiles.
The leader of Shi’ite group Hezbollah has appealed for calm after people blocked roads in Beirut to protest the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shi’ites.
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s opponents appear to be resorting to assassinations of loyalist military officers in an escalation of their campaign.
Syrian troops have shelled rebel-held neighbourhoods in Homs, a day after the UN General Assembly condemned human rights violations by the regime.
Syria has rejected the Arab League’s plan to end the country’s conflict, saying the call for a unity government is a violation of Syria’s sovereignty.
Syrian troops fought intense battles with hundreds of fellow soldiers who have turned their weapons against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters have shouted for President Bashar al-Assad’s death in a dramatic escalation of their rage and frustration.
Syrian troops backed by helicopters and tanks regained control on Sunday of a town where police and soldiers joined forces with the protesters.
Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across the country on Monday.
The discovery of gas reserves under the eastern Mediterranean could mean a huge windfall for Israel and Lebanon, if it doesn’t spark a new war.
The Iraqi government has called on armed groups to follow the lead of the biggest Shi’ite militia and freeze their operations, even as the United States military on Friday…
Gunmen seized the chairman of Iraq’s Olympic committee and at least 30 other people on Saturday in a brazen daylight raid on a sports conference in the heart of the city as armed…
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in southern Lebanon died on Friday of wounds from a car bombing that also killed his brother, security officials said. Mahmoud Majzoub was…
Screaming and weeping mourners clambered around the coffin carrying the Lebanese flag-draped body of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri as hundreds of thousands of…
The United States military was re-examining security measure at bases around Iraq on Thursday, a day after saying that a suicide bomber likely carried out the attack at a camp…
Suicide attackers detonated a car bomb on Wednesday near an Iraqi national guard recruiting centre in west Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 54, authorities said.…
