Lebanese authorities have thwarted attempts by members of the Islamic State group to carry out three attacks near the capital Beirut that would have inflicted a large number of civilian casualties, the interior minister said Wednesday. Bassam Mawlawi said the would-be attackers, two of whom...

Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles toward Syrian military positions in the country’s south early Wednesday causing material damage, state media reported. State TV quoted an unnamed Syrian military official as saying that the missiles were fired from Syria’s Israeli-occupied...

Although the Syrian regime's lifting subsidies for thousands of families was not surprising, experts predict that catastrophic effects on the citizens are likely to occur in the first place.  On the other hand, the government's austerity plans related to reducing the cost of...

The Syrian Prime Ministry announced new plan to expand drilling and exploration for gas and oil, in an indication of its desperation to recover the oil fields controlled by the US-backed Kurdish forces in the northeastern Syria. The director of the Syrian regime's General Petroleum...