Syria News

The voice crackling over the Hezbollah radios was clear and authoritative, and the guerrillas poised to attack the Syrian border town of Qusair recognized it immediately.

Refugee numbers around the world are at their highest level since 1994, the United Nations refugee agency reported Tuesday in a sobering look at global displacement.

A military judge Tuesday refused a three-month trial delay for the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage.

Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman.

The Levant's famous Bakdash ice cream parlour opened its Amman branch in May and has been attracting Syrians, Jordanians, and their cars, in masses.

Syria's president warned that Europe "will pay a price" if it delivers weapons to rebels fighting to topple him, saying in an interview published Monday that arming them would backfire as the "terrorists" return to their countries with extremist ideologies.

Hamas on Monday called on Hizbullah to withdraw from Syria and to keep its weapons aimed at Israel, according to the Ma'an news agency.

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Washington's decision to arm opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and reports of Gulf military aid to rebels have sent the Syrian currency plunging to a new record low, currency dealers and bankers said on Monday.

In this Sunday, March 3, 2013 file photo, A Kurdish female member of the Popular Protection Units stands guard at a check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria.

Syria is set to top the agenda for leaders meeting as part of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, but analysts say a major breakthrough on what action to take in the civil-war torn country is unlikely.

MOSCOW, June 17 Russia has asked for clarification from Egypt over its decision to sever relations with Syria, which came as a complete surprise to Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday.

Syrian activists say a car bomb attack targeting a checkpoint near a military airport in the capital has killed or wounded more than 20 soldiers.

Senator Saxby Chambliss , a Georgia Republican, said it's "imperative" that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be removed, adding that he favors imposing a no-fly zone if the military determines it's necessary.

Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and concerns over the spillover of the civil war raging next door.

Restless residents displaced by Colorado's most destructive wildfire ever are returning to previously closed neighborhoods as firefighters continue to tame the blaze.

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The conflict in Syria may be first and foremost a civil war, pitting the Shiite-dominated regime of President Bashar Assad against mostly Sunni insurgents.

President Mohammed Morsi has announced he has cut all of Egypt's ties to the Syrian government, and has called for world powers to impose a no-fly zone over Syria to help protect Syrian opposition supporters.

Editor's note: Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is an author, award-winning scholar, Middle East expert and U.S. foreign policy specialist.