Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree naming former communications minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali to form a new cabinet, state media said on Saturday. The new cabinet will replace an outgoing administration which has been serving in a caretaker role since parliamentary elections...

A senior White House official is going to Israel in the coming days as the  US pushes to prevent a bigger escalation  of violence along the border with Lebanon. The White House said President Joe Biden’s envoy, Amos Hochstein, is making the visit as a continuation of the...

The Israeli military said Friday that over the source of the week it had acted in Syria against targets, just days after Syrian state media reported Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in western Syria and wounded dozens more. “In southern Syria, the [Israeli army] targeted several...

The body of a US-Turkish activist,  shot dead  by Israeli forces while protesting against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, arrived in Turkey on Friday. The killing last week of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, has sparked international condemnation. The United Nations...