Syrian regime forces Tuesday retook a neighborhood south of Damascus from Daesh (ISIS), slicing off yet another part of the militant holdout, a monitoring group said. The government of President Bashar Assad has since April 19 waged a fierce air and ground assault against the final...

By  Elizabeth Tsurkov (The Forward)- Israel’s bombing campaign against dozens of Iranian, Hezbollah and Syrian Army targets across Syria last night was the most extensive Israeli operation in Israel in over 40 years. Through these strikes, Israel is signaling to Tehran that it...

Iranian forces based in Syria fired 20 rockets at Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights early Thursday, the Israeli military said, triggering an Israeli reprisal and further escalating heightened tensions. The Israeli military said its Iron Dome rocket defense...

The “Defense of the People” Court is an almost intimate place. Three judges – two men and a woman – sat behind a large desk. The defendant, a former Daesh (ISIS) militant in Syria, faced them in a chair only a yard away, close enough for a conversation.A space heater in the center and...