Hezbollah denied Friday media reports saying it had promised Russia not to retaliate against Israeli raids on targets within Syrian territories. “[The] alleged pledge from Hezbollah to Russia not to respond to the Israeli raids against targets inside Syria... is absolutely baseless and...

With ISIS's "caliphate" seemingly nearing its downfall in Iraq, the country's security agencies are preparing for a different fight against the militants, shifting away from ground offensives to a focus on intelligence work, surgical airstrikes and a higher level of cooperation with the West....

Saudi Arabia is striving to develop a homegrown defense industry but cutting reliance on foreign equipment will take years, the head of a major military development firm said Thursday. The kingdom is the world's third-biggest defense spender, but only two percent of that outlay is local....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Thursday said the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia was working together with the forces of Bashar Assad in the north of Aleppo province. At a news conference in Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin also said Turkey has conducted the "most intense" talks to help end...