International Monetary Fund officials expressed hope and pledged support for Syria while sharing concerns about Libya after recent talks with representatives of the two countries. Both Middle Eastern ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syrian nationals wait at a service office in Tripoli after the Syrian foreign ministry announced it would grant free return tickets to its citizens wishing to leave Libya — Mahmud Turkia Hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syria is conducting bloody repression of its own people without interference. Some 8500 Syrians have fled across the border into Turkey and thousands more may be making their way on trucks, tractors ...