DAMASCUS, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Syria's army declared on Tuesday the Kurdish-held areas of Deir Hafir and Maskanah east of Aleppo in northern Syria as "closed military zones," warning civilians to stay ...

The overthrow of other dictators in the region has led not to democracy but to terror and upheaval. Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle ...

European foreign ministers agreed on a “road map” to lift financial restrictions, but the change will happen in stages. By Jeanna Smialek and Erika Solomon Jeanna Smialek reported from Brussels, and ...