At least 63 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed on Friday in a surprise attack by the hardline Islamic State group near Salamiyah city in the eastern countryside of Hama province, activists and monitoring group said. Pro-ISIS Twitter...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama , who once famously said he would “always have Israel’s back,” may be rethinking that promise as aides begin weighing options in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-election disavowal of a two-state solution to the...

Islamic State fighters have carried out a massive attack on Syrian regime forces in the eastern countryside of Hama, cutting the supply route to Aleppo, activists said on Friday. The initial reports said ISIS militants have killed more than 50 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad near...

Israeli authorities allowed 1,000 tonnes of cement paid for by Qatar to enter the devastated Gaza Strip on Thursday, officials said, in the first serious step towards rebuilding the territory. A 50-day war last summer between Israel and Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the...