A Syrian military helicopter crashed during a training mission due to a technical failure northeast of the city of Hama, and its crew were killed, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported on Sunday, citing a military source. (Reuters)

Israel has intensified strikes on Syrian airports to disrupt Tehran's increasing use of aerial supply lines to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon including Hezbollah, regional diplomatic and intelligence sources told Reuters. Tehran has adopted air transport as a more reliable means...

Lebanon arrested five State Security agents Saturday on suspicion of torturing to death a Syrian detainee, in the latest abuse allegation against the security services, a judicial source told AFP. The arrests came on the orders of the government's commissioner to the military courts, Fadi...

The Lebanese Hezbollah militia supplied missiles to several locations in the Damascus countryside on Friday evening, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. Hezbollah deployed surface-to-air missiles at military points on the border strip near the city of Zabadani, and installed a rocket...