Daesh (Islamic State) fighters clashed with Syrian insurgents in the northwestern province of Idlib on Friday, a monitoring group and a rebel commander said, accusing pro-government forces of opening a corridor for the jihadists to reach the region. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Turkey and Iran are violating international law through their actions in Syria, said France's foreign minister on Wednesday, demanding that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon's Hizballah, pulls out of the country. Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking on BFM television, added that...

Israeli forces started construction Wednesday on a controversial wall along the south Lebanon border, Al-Manar TV reported. "The Israeli army has begun construction on the cement wall in Ras Naqqoura," the television reported.

At least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January, most of them in Syria, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said Monday, vowing their voices "will never be silenced." "They were killed in ongoing conflicts, suicide attacks or frozen to death as they fled active war zones,"...