Syria is conducting repression of its own people without interference, and, in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is hanging on longer than expected. Is NATO prepared to protect civilians for humanitarian reasons ...

The December 2024 fall of the Bashar al-Assad government marks a historic turning point for Syria, and after decades of ...

Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria, recently told the Financial Times newspaper that Syria is on a "knife-edge" and "risks turning into Libya" should promised changes stall. Syrian ...

BEIRUT (AP) - Taking inspiration from the rapid unraveling of the regime in Libya, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets Monday and taunted President Bashar Assad with shouts that his family's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Now that he has called for Syria's leader to leave, U.S. President Barack Obama faces the daunting challenge of smoothing the way to a post-Assad era -- just as another Arab ...

Assad, the country is trying to rebuild from the ruins of a 13-year civil war. Interim President – and former rebel leader – ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior official from the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria's (Rojava) ruling body and the ...

With Western leaders weighing whether to intervene in the Syrian war with a Libya-style bombing campaign or by arming the Syrian rebels with heavy weaponry, it would seem logical that President Bashar ...

ANKARA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister said on Friday French President Emmanuel Macron had become "hysterical" over developments in the Libyan and Syrian conflicts and a dispute over ...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that military action was an option in dealing with Syria, but he and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey sounded really reluctant about ...