An apparent spat in the once tight-knit family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deepened overnight Thursday when his tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf made a rare direct appeal for help on Facebook over an order to seize his assets and impose fines. Mr Makhlouf, Mr Assad’s maternal cousin...

The Syrian state media reported Friday Israeli air strikes in the Golan Heights and later blasts at an ammunition depot east of the city of Homs. While the Syrian army said the series of blasts at the ammunition depot east of Homs city led to casualties, it stated the incident was not...

Explosions rocked a Syrian military base housing a weapons warehouse Friday in the country's central Homs province, and a local official said the cause was not immediately clear. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syria war, said an Israeli rocket...

Syrian state media reported on Friday that Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria in what Western intelligence sources have described as an increase in strikes against Iranian-backed militias this year. The...