Explosions were heard in the Syrian capital Friday night, which Syrian media said were the result of a new Israeli attack near Damascus. State-run news agency SANA said Syrian air defenses confronted “hostile targets” in the skies in the Damascus countryside, a reference to Israel which...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s outgoing government on Friday approved a recovery plan for pulling the Mideast nation out of its economic meltdown, the country's information minister said. The development came during the Cabinet’s last official meeting before it becomes a caretaker government...

Three Syrian regime soldiers were killed on Thursday in an ambush by the "Islamic State" group that targeted a military vehicle in the Palmyra desert in central Syria.   Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that "three forces were killed at dawn on Thursday, and two others were seriously...

A former leader in the ruling Syrian Al-Baath party and former armed militia leader has joined the humanitarian work after arriving in Germany and obtaining temporary protection, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.   Amal Ezzo, 55, who lives in the city of Gostrof in the province...