Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday threatened to inflict "very strong blows" on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the group. "Hamas has apparently not understood the message – if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in...

Rebels have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwest Syria, an activist group said Sunday, days after they were meant to have withdrawn such weapons from the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in the zone fired several "mortar shells at an army...

Hundreds of people were taken by Daesh (ISIS) fighters from a displacement camp in east Syria during a militant counterattack against advancing U.S.-backed forces, an activist group said Saturday. The militants raided the camp Friday, taking "more than 100 families" including relatives of...

The United Nations, Israel and Syria reached an agreement to reopen the Qunaitra crossing in the Golan Heights Monday, the United States announced Friday, urging the two Middle East countries to facilitate the work of peacekeepers in the zone. "The United States welcomes the reopening...