ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on Friday. Full story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq. Full story
Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow. While this development might seem at first glance to be a step toward ending the civil war, strong skepticism persists on both sides. Full story
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long (1.5 mile) twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year. Full story
LONDON (Reuters) - British broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security to prevent such attacks. Full story
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet privately in Paris on Monday to discuss their efforts to bring Syria's warring parties to a peace conference, a U.S. official said on Friday. Full story
Author Allan Lichtman joins The Cycle for a look back at World War II and the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during that life-altering conflict.
For the first time since the Syrian rebellion started, U.S. lawmakers have approved weapons being sent to rebels fighting the Middle Eastern nation’s government.
Troops are traveling through the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon, to stop violence erupting between supporters and opponents of neighboring Syria's civil unrest. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Syrian activists report that dozens of people were killed in fighting on Sunday in Qusair, a town in the central province of Homs that has been under rebel control since early last year. NBCNews.com's Richard Lui reports.
Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the upcoming book “The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East,” and MSNBC Contributor Rula Jebreal talk with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin about the ongoing conflict in Syria and Secretary o
Syrian refugee drive a car with boxes and bags tied on the top of the vehicle at Cilvegozu border gate to go back to Syria after car bombings at Reyhanli in Hatay, on May 14, 2013. The death toll in twin car bombings in a Turkish town near the Syrian border has increased to 50 after another body wa
People of Reyhanli chant slogans as riot police block them on May 18, 2013, at Reyhanli in Hatay, during the funerals of the victims of a car bomb which went off on May 11 at Reyhanli in Hatay just a few kilometres from the main border crossing into Syria. The death toll in this bombingshas increase
A member of the Free Syrian Army inspects the damaged buildings after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Al-Tarrab neighborhood near Aleppo International airport May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Nour Kelze
