JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russia on Wednesday that Israel does not intend to threaten Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and asked Moscow to work to remove Iranian forces from Syria, an Israeli official said. “We won’t take action...

Israel intercepted a drone launched from Syria with a Patriot missile Wednesday, setting off sirens in the occupied Golan Heights, the army said. The drone, which had also overflown Jordan and appeared to have been unarmed and designed for surveillance, was downed near the Sea of Galilee at...

Russian air strikes and fierce clashes Wednesday rocked a sliver of territory in southwestern Syria held by Daesh (ISIS), an activist group said. Much of the southern province of Deraa had been quiet since Friday, when a ceasefire between rebels and Syria's regime ended a nearly...

A suicide car bombing Tuesday killed 14 newly reconciled fighters from pro-government and rebel ranks in an attack on a south Syrian village claimed by Daesh (ISIS). The Britain-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion hit Zaizun, a village in the...