Any inkling of law and order there vanished with the revolution, and migrants from Eritrea, Sudan and elsewhere are held for ransom, tortured and left to die in the desert.
In Lebanon, where kidnapping, smuggling and tribal feuds are part of the landscape, the Syrian war has exacerbated tension in an already volatile region.
But no decision is expected soon, and Obama appears to have softened his 'red line' threat over chemical weapons use by the Assad regime. |
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DAMASCUS, Syria — White daffodils and violet daisies waxed aromatic from the crystal vase on the young couple's dining table....
CAIRO — Hold the martini, please.
BAGHDAD — Shiite-dominated areas in southern and central Iraq were rocked Monday by car bomb explosions that killed at least 22 people...
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government ordered 10 predominantly Sunni Muslim satellite television channels to cease broadcasting Sunday,...
BAGHDAD — Four Iraqi soldiers were shot dead Saturday, the day after Sunni Arab tribes in the restive western province of Anbar...
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously agree that Syrians have been exposed to deadly sarin gas in recent weeks, but they...
WASHINGTON — The White House said for the first time that there was evidence Syria had used chemical weapons in its civil war, but...
BEIRUT — The Syrian government says its forces this week seized a strategic township east of Damascus after weeks of fighting, but...
JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday that it shot down an unmanned aircraft that had entered Israeli airspace off the northern coast...
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by...
JERUSALEM — Israel's accusation that Syria used chemical weapons against rebels raises the prospect that Damascus crossed what...
BEIRUT — Security forces for the Shiite-led Iraqi government raided a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, igniting...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Divisions between Syrian rebels and their foreign supporters came into focus Saturday as a leading opposition group...
CAIRO — Egypt's besieged justice minister has submitted his resignation after protests over the weekend by Islamists, who want to...
GIZA, Egypt — The woman with crates of unsold tomatoes breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Secretary of State John F. Kerry urged Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to delay a planned visit to...
JERUSALEM — Growing up poor and motherless in the slums of Jerusalem's Old City, Amoun Sleem dropped out of school at age 7 after...
WASHINGTON — The British and French governments have asked the United Nations to investigate what they believe is credible evidence...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry implored Congress on Thursday not to impose tough new sanctions on Iran, warning that...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more...
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in a television interview Wednesday that the war against his government risked spreading...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that any chance of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
ANTAKYA, Turkey — In newly printed textbooks at dozens of Syrian refugee schools, a small piece of Middle East geography has been...
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad issued an order Tuesday freeing up to 7,000 prison inmates, but it was not clear whether the...
CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along...
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi, at least for the moment, appears to be channeling his softer side.
TEHRAN — The reform movement that took to the streets to protest alleged vote-rigging in Iran's last presidential election has been...
DAMASCUS, Syria — A suicide car bombing in central Damascus killed at least 15 people and wounded 53 on Monday, Syrian state...
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock.
WASHINGTON — Iranian officials did not directly respond Friday to the latest American-backed offer to curb Tehran's disputed nuclear...
After much debate that brought the passions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to campus, UC Riverside's student government has reversed...
JABAL AL-ZAWIYA, Syria — The rebel commander Jamal Maroof was fiddling with his iPhone when a young man brought him news.
CAIRO — He arrived with a prankster's aplomb.
REYHANLI, Turkey — The Syrian opposition fighter arrived unexpectedly at Dr. Mazen Kewara's office at the Syrian American Medical...
TEL AVIV — Israel's highest-ranking female soldier says efforts to draft male ultra-Orthodox students into the Israel Defense Forces...
BAGHDAD — Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the geopolitical winner of the war appears...
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities arrested and charged a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran turned Middle East "freedom fighter" with...
BEIRUT — A Syrian opposition coalition was seated as the legitimate government of Syria at an Arab League summit Tuesday, and the...
AL QASR, Lebanon — Each evening, Ali Jamal and other men in this border town grab their Kalashnikov assault rifles, jump on their...
BEIRUT — The head of a U.S.-backed Syrian opposition coalition resigned his post Sunday, a major blow to a group that the United...
BEIRUT — A day after announcing his resignation as prime minister, Najib Mikati on Saturday called for a "salvation" government to run...
JERUSALEM — President Obama brokered a diplomatic reconciliation between key Middle East allies Israel and Turkey at the end of his...
JABIR, Jordan — The Jordanian officer slowly cut the rudimentary dressing that covered the boy's left arm. Patches of red ooze...
JERUSALEM — Evoking the Jewish people's biblical struggle for freedom, President Obama called upon Israelis Thursday to sweep aside...
WASHINGTON — President Obama's involvement in the tortuous Middle East peace process can be divided into three chapters, two of...
JERUSALEM — In a much-anticipated visit laden with symbols of friendship and words of assurance, President Obama and Prime Minister...
JERUSALEM — By choosing to deliver his landmark speech to Israel in an auditorium filled with students and young people, President...
BAGHDAD — A bronze statue of a slain Shiite Muslim cleric greets motorists as they drive down the airport highway that invading...
BEIRUT — The Syrian government accused rebels Tuesday of killing dozens of civilians in a chemical attack near the northern city of...
JERUSALEM — As President Obama prepared for his first official trip to Israel, he made a point of referring to Prime Minister Benjamin...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — As Israelis roll out new red carpet and line streets with American flags for President Obama's visit, the U.S....
WASHINGTON — An offer in the most recent round of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program has created anxiety in Israel and...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Khaled Naaman doesn't hide his disdain for the Syrian government, a widely shared sentiment in this northern...
WASHINGTON — President Obama heads to Israel this week with quiet hopes, but little real expectation, that by smoothing rough...
WASHINGTON — The CIA has stepped up secret contingency planning to protect the United States and its allies as the turmoil expands...
JERUSALEM — When the White House tweaked the president's upcoming Holy Land itinerary to include Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity,...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached deals Thursday with two political rivals that will enable him to forge a...
YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel — The bullet that tore through Israeli paratrooper Radi Kaiuf's spine during a 1988 Lebanon firefight...
BEIRUT — Moving to quash rumors of mass conscription, the embattled Syrian government said Wednesday that the armed forces remained...
CAIRO — The brother of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri is an unflinching man with a graying beard whose aim, as a Salafi, is to...
CAIRO — The Muslim women in Marwa Adel's photographs are shadows, repressed by custom, religion, marriage and regret. While nude,...
Israel's Shin Bet — think of it as a combination of the CIA and the FBI — prides itself on secrecy. So when documentary...
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