Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:50
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed dozens of rebel fighters who tried to break an army siege of the central city of Homs, state media and a monitoring group said.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 07:15
The US State Department has already warned US citizens on several occasions to avoid all travel to Lebanon and recommended those in the country to make plans to leave.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 23:15
United States Embassy in Beirut is urging Americans in Lebanon to avoid hotels, Western-style shopping malls and social events where US citizens congregate, for fear of terrorist attacks.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 21:42
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has warned its citizens against travelling to Lebanon due to the events and the unstable security conditions being witnessed there.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 18:15
Rebels battling jihadists in northern Syria have killed or captured scores of the militants loyal to an al Qaeda affiliate in two days of fighting, a watchdog said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 17:32
A newly formed Syrian rebel alliance has declared war on the powerful al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and joined other opposition groups in battling the extremists.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 00:26
Five staffers from Doctors without Borders (MSF) have been taken from a house in northern Syria by an unknown group, the medical humanitarian group said on Friday.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 23:31
Syrian rebels in opposition-held areas were engaged in fierce battles with al Qaeda-linked elements Friday in what activists say is growing resistance to the jihadists` brutal grip in many places.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 19:37
Politically paralysed by deep divisions exacerbated by the war in neighbouring Syria, Lebanon is likely to see a continuing cycle of political violence, analysts say.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 18:28
Danish and Norwegian vessels left the Cypriot port of Limassol Friday and headed towards Syria to escort a delayed shipment of chemical weapons for destruction, a spokesman said.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 07:23
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon and the UN Security Council Thursday strongly condemned a car bomb attack in the Lebanese capital of Beirut that killed at least six people and wounded 70.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 01:45
A car bomb killed four people in south Beirut Thursday, the fourth attack to hit the Hezbollah bastion since the Shiite group announced its intervention in Syria last year, the health minister said.
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