Palestinian civilians are being embroiled in Israeli military training, including mock arrests, raids on private homes and incursions into villages, without being told they are involved in army exercises. The  Israel  Defence Forces (IDF) defended...

A Syrian rebel commander in a main Islamist brigade was killed and two others were injured in an air strike by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Aleppo, activists said on Friday, in a setback to rebels defending the city against a loyalist attack. Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub...

  The Secretary General of the Syrian Coalition Badraldin Jamous met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Istanbul, who repeated that his Government is waiting for the Syrian Coalition to accept an invitation to visit Moscow, according to a statement by the...

  Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani accused the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria of “autocracy,” and rejected its unilateral declaration of independence in Syria’s Kurdish northeast.   He said the PYD was missing “a golden...