A Syrian army officer was killed when an unidentified armed group stormed a military post near the Lebanese border early Tuesday, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.   Two more Fourth Division forces were wounded in the attack in the village of Kfeir Yabous in the northern...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament early on Tuesday failed to renew a law that bars Arab citizens from extending citizenship or residency rights to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in a tight vote that raised doubts about the viability of the country’s new coalition...

 Hundreds of women protested against so-called "honour killings" in northeast Syria on Tuesday after the latest murders of young women by relatives in the Kurdish-run region. The demonstrators marched down a street in the city of Hasakeh, some wearing a white t-shirt marked "No to...

MOSCOW (AP) — A plane carrying 28 people apparently crashed as it came in for a landing in bad weather Tuesday in Russia’s Far East, and everyone aboard was feared dead. Wreckage from the An-26 was found on a coastal cliffside and in the sea near the airport in the town of Palana,...