Until a suicide bombing killed 20 people at a church in a low-income area of Damascus on Sunday, Christians had been spared the mass violence that has afflicted other minorities under the new Syrian ...

The United States has reportedly asked Israel to cease bombing the Syrian capital of Damascus as Tel Aviv claims to defend the Druze minority from sectarian violence, a senior defense official told ...

ISTANBUL _ A Russian warplane on a bombing run in Syria flew within five miles of the Turkish border and may have crossed into Turkey’s airspace, Turkish and U.S. officials said Sunday.tmpplchld The ...