T he baby-faced boy waited patiently for his turn at the small ice cream shop, his Kalashnikov balanced precariously over his shoulder. The rifle was pointed down and his hand occasionally cupped the muzzle, far from the proper way to carry a gun. He stood just a few inches...

Syria's rebels shoot down two fighter jets in Qalamoun area, east Damascus on Thursday, source told Zaman Alwasl. The anti-aircraft missiles of  main Islamic Front group, Islam Army hit ‘Sukhoi’ jet near al-Nasseryia military...

  By George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad For many years, regime’s massive defense and military budget have severely limited expenditures in other areas vital to the nation's social, economic, and educational progress because it relied immensely on...

A Lebanese convoy of soldiers, clerics and Red Cross officials delivered aid Tuesday to a remote village near the Syrian border that was bombed by Syrian government aircraft and blocked by Lebanese militants fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's forces in the civil war next door....