Unknown assailants shot and wounded two Israelis at a flash-point holy site in the West Bank city of Hebron Friday, the army said, as sporadic violence again erupted in the Palestinian territories. "Two Israelis were shot at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron," a statement said, with...

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents were battling another rebel group, according to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters. A confidential Oct. 29 report by the Organisation for the Prohibition...

France will deploy its aircraft carrier to support operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday, bolstering Paris' firepower in the region amid international efforts to launch Syrian peace talks. The carrier is usually accompanied by an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has accused Islamic State of carrying out a car bomb targeted an independent religious society made up of Syrian scholars in Arsal town northeast Lebanon Thursday that killed at least nine people, a source with close ties with Nusra...