Despite efforts to protect them from violence, the United Nation (UN) reports children are taking the brunt of the rising anger adults are inflicting upon one another. Basically, children are caught in the cross-fire.

BEIRUT — Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian forces in battling rebels in a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine, in a pu...

In a bid to distract attention from his domestic woes, curry favor with the U.S. and Gulf countries and restore Egypt to a leadership position in the region, Morsi chose a Cairo stadium to announce to his supporters that he was cutting diplomatic ties with the Syrian regime.

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- The G-8 summit's joint statement on ending the Syrian civil war will not mention whether Bashar Assad must step down ...

By Amena Bakr DUBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, a staunch opponent of President Bashar al-Assad since early in Syria's conflict...

(Adds quotes, context) MOSCOW, June 17 (Reuters) - Russia, a veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly...

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama faces what could b...

Over the weekend, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced that he was cutting all ties with Syria, to include unilaterally ending the long-maintained diplomatic relationship between the two Arab countries and closing Egypt's embassy in Damascus.

BEIRUT — Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian ten...

BEIRUT -- Security officials say four Lebanese Shiite Muslim men have been killed in an ambush in northeastern Lebanon. It was not immediately clea...

There aren't just citizen journalists now, sending out YouTube clips to the world. Where Syria is concerned, there are now citizen analysts, scouring that footage for weapons tracking.

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs adviser says Moscow is not convinced with Washington's claim that Syrian regime had used chemical...

BEIRUT -- The Syrian government has dismissed U.S. statements it used chemical weapons as "full of lies." A statement by the Syrian Foreign Ministr...

BEIRUT — Syrians are being killed at an average rate of 5,000 per month, the U.N. said Thursday as it raised the overall death toll in the civil...

By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Among the consequences facing U.S. President Barack Obama if he decides against arm...

BEIRUT — Syrian rebels, including Sunni extremists, stormed a village and battled pro-regime militiamen, killing more than 60 Shiite fighters an...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Twin suicide bombers targeted a police station in the center of Damascus Tuesday, killing 14 people as regime forces aggressiv...

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - The United States could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, a U.S. official said ...

Sometimes, attacks in Syria's bloody civil war start not with a bullet or a bomb blast, but with an innocuous-looking email.A message pings into an in...

BEIRUT — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria's central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated...

LUXEMBOURG -- European Union nations pledged Friday to step up cooperation in an effort to keep the more than 600 EU citizens now fighting in Syria fr...