(Mahmud Turkia/AFP/AFP) Hundreds of Syrian refugees living in Libya poured into a travel agency in Tripoli on Saturday to take advantage of an offer of free tickets to Damascus, AFP journalists saw.

The Arab spring has brought large-scale protests and violence to at least half a dozen countries in the past three years. Until now, the U.S. has only intervened militarily in one of them — Libya. Now ...

Concerns are rising in Libya that radical elements may exploit the fragility of the security situation in the country, ...

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 ...

There are ways in which the military crisis in Syria resembles Libya in 2011. There are many more in which it does not. Most important: Chances for a quick military victory over Syrian forces are ...

In yet another sign of Muammar Qaddafi's loosening grip on power, the fugitive Libyan leader announced today that he would soldier on in Libya by phoning Syria-based Arrai TV, which has aired most of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...