Beirut (AFP) – Syria has avoided getting embroiled in the Gaza war, experts said, despite a strike on Iran's Damascus consulate, blamed on Israel, that threatened to ignite a regional conflagration. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to strike a delicate...

Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes blamed on Israel, a source close to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and a war monitor said Wednesday. Iran has provided military support to Syrian government forces through more than a decade of civil war but...

Israeli forces shelled shared Syrian regime and Hezbollah military sites on Monday after a rocket launched from Syria fell in the occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli shelling targeted locations in Daraa province in southern Syria, The New Arab's Arabic edition Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported....

At least 20 people have been killed in Syria's Daraa province in clashes between rival armed groups, a day after a blast which killed at least seven children. An "explosive device" was detonated in the city of Sanamayn in Daraa province on Saturday, state media agency SANA reported quoting a...