The Iranian embassy in Ankara on Sunday dismissed a Turkish media report claiming Tehran had sent some of its forces in Syria to fight alongside the Houthi group in Yemen, the Fars News Agency reported. "Such a claim indicates lack of information about field realities," the embassy...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli helicopter gunship opened fire on Monday on a home at the edge of Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, wounding one person, Syrian state TV reported. The TV said the unidentified man, reported to be a civilian, was taken to hospital for treatment...

  The Syrian military intelligence arrested a senior army commander over links with the U.S. forces and Kurdish-led militias in northeastern Syria, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday.   Maj. Gen Nizar Ahmed Al-Khader, commander of the 17th Division and the head of the Security...

An explosion rocked an oil tanker off the coast of Tartus on Sunday, causing a small fire in one of its engines, state media said. The fire on the ship - off the coast of Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias - was extinguished by the crew quickly with no casualties, it said....