Israel said Thursday it saw potentially stabilizing benefits to Bashar Assad’s winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said it had killed seven Islamist insurgents in a rare air strike across the countries' frontier. The remarks, by Israel's defense minister, signal an...

Israel's defense minister described Syria's return to its pre-civil war situation as a given Thursday, and predicted that the Occupied-Golan Heights frontier would be quieter with Bashar Assad's central rule restored. "From our perspective, the situation is returning to how it was...

The road to Syria's border crossing with Jordan, closed by conflict in 2011, is ready for use and the Syrian regime is looking at prospects of reopening it after recovering the border from rebels, the Syrian transport minister said. Billions of dollars in annual trade moved through the...

 Four Syrian regime fighters were killed east of the capital, an activist group said Wednesday, in an ambush claimed by Daesh (ISIS). The militants struck Tuesday in a hilly area about 50 kilometers from Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "There were...