Moscow's military force in Syria has grown to about 4,000 personnel, but this and more than a month of Russian air strikes have not led to pro-government forces making significant territorial gains, U.S. security officials and independent experts said. Moscow, which has maintained a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels shot down a fighter jet in Syria's Hama province on Wednesday, local activists and monitoring group said, as Russia warplanes continued air strikes across Syria.  The Syrian MiG-23 was downed near the village of Kafr Nabouda in northern Hama, the...

Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in. They made it to safety during the flooding last week, but a network of Palestinian tunnels running...

The Syrian army regained control of a road southeast of Aleppo Wednesday, state television said, taking back the regime's only supply route into the city from ISIS militants who had seized it last month. Army forces took full control of the road which runs from Aleppo through the towns of...