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REYHANLI, Turkey — In this bustling border town, anonymous apartments serve as safe houses for Syrian rebel commanders, clinics for wounded fighters and opposition media centers equipped with banks of sophisticated laptops and video…

ISTANBUL—Syrian opposition leaders said they aim to attend peace talks and hope to win the support of rebel forces on the ground who have long disapproved of the negotiations. Early Monday morning, the main Western-backed coalition of…

Latakia province: An unidentified person's body was found by the road near al-Qasatel town, as reported by activists. Tartous province: 1 rebel from Banias city was killed by clashes with regime forces by the…

BEIRUT — An outbreak of polio among children in war-torn Syria has prompted a mass immunization campaign that aims to vaccinate 20 million children in seven Middle Eastern nations and territories, the United Nations and the World Health…

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has ordered the disbanding of the main jihadist faction in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, in an audio message aired on Al-Jazeera Friday. Zawahiri also stressed that the…

Amman, Nov 9 (Petra) – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Nasser Judeh and his Belgian counterpart Diders Reynders on Saturday discussed Jordanian-Belgian ties and the developments in the region, focusing on…

Syria's main rebel bloc, the National Coalition, is meeting in Istanbul to decide whether to attend peace talks that world powers want to hold in Geneva. The meeting is expected to continue through Sunday. Rebels have balked at…

Denmark said Friday it would provide transport and security for the international effort to destroy Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons, after receiving a request from the UN. "The UN has contacted Denmark about sending a…

Troops backed by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters and other pro-regime militiamen on Thursday retook Sbeineh, a major rebel enclave south of Damascus, a monitoring group and state television said. “Sbeineh was one of the most…

BRUSSELS (AFP) -- Washington has contacted several of its allies, including Belgium and France, for possible help in destroying Syria's chemical arsenal, a Belgian foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday. "The Americans held an…