Israel's defense minister said Sunday a Palestinian scientist shot dead in Malaysia was a rocket expert and "no saint", but dismissed suggestions by Hamas that Israel's Mossad spy agency assassinated him. Two men on a motorcycle fired 10 shots at Fadi al-Batsh, an engineering...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian army on Wednesday met with the negotiation committee in northern Homs and southern Hama a day after the regime forces halted major attack began on the opposition-held areas. The committee said a long-term ceasefire would be the ground for any further...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime halted its attack on rebel-held area in central Homs and Hama provinces after rebels cut the main water supplies to government areas, pro-regime activists said Tuesday. The regime has succumbed to the threat of cutting off drinking...

 Israel's army said Sunday it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel crossing from the Gaza Strip into its territory after more than two weeks of tension along the border of the Palestinian enclave. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was the longest and deepest Gazan tunnel...