The Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned Ayman Alloush, Syria’s charge d'affaires in Amman, to demand the release of Jordanian nationals who it says have been unjustly detained by the Syrian authorities. “The Foreign Ministry is calling on the Syrian regime to immediately...

In a joint operation with Russian forces, Israel recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, a Brooklyn-born Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier missing in action in Lebanon for almost 37 years. Baumel was declared missing in action in June 1982 during the first week of the...

The U.S. decision to recognize Israel's territorial claim to the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is "a colossal strike" at the international legal basis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.  International documents were adopted as an alternative to the...

Heavy bombardment by the Syrian army of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region has killed 22 civilians, a monitor said Thursday, the latest violence to theaten a seven-month-old truce. The ceasefire was brokered by the main foreign backers of the warring parties in September to head off a...