GENEVA (AP) The U.N. refugee agency says more than 45.2 million people were forced to flee homes last year, an 18-year high mainly due to wars in Syria, Afghanistan and other countries.The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say...

#SNN | #Syria Breaking News | Deir Ezzor | June 19, 2013 Clashes resume between the Free Syrian Army and regime forces at Arrasafah district coupled with heavy artillery and mortar shelling by the latter on it.

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - President Obama, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice Tuesday on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement - yet could not publicly agree on whether this means P...

#SNN | #Syria Breaking News | Damascus Rural | June 19, 2013 Regime forces are launching a raid,arrest and burning homes campaign on Saber and Tima villages.

In attempt to encourage senior Assad regime figures to depose him from within, G8 leaders promise they will play a role in rebuilt Syria; Putin defends continued supply of arms to Damascus

The March 14 coalition called Tuesday for an immediate withdrawal of Hezbollah from the fighting in Syria and the deployment of the Lebanese Army along the tense border to prevent recurrent attacks on Lebanon.

Barack Obama has left it too late to change the course of the Syrian war by saving the rebels from defeat at the hands of the Syrian army. The Russians are already lined up counter-measures for stalling US aid to the rebels and step into its shoes.

When Italian President Giorgio Napolitano met HM King Abdullah II last year in Jordan he expressed "the high regard with which Italy observes how the Hashemite dynasty has always pursued its desire for peace and its moderate line." It is surely in this...