Extremists are not just trying to overthrow Assad but to set up an Islamic state on Israel’s doorstep, major general warns   ''An extensive global jihad center is developing right on Israel’s doorstep,'' the IDF’s head of military research Aviv Kochavi said...

Establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrian rebels would require hundreds of U.S. aircraft at a cost as much as $1 billion per month and no assurance that it would change the momentum in the 2-year-old civil war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday in a cautionary assessment...

    Assad's forces bombed a strategic rebel town in the country's north for the third straight day Saturday, pounding it with airstrikes that killed at least five people, activists said.   Assad's troops in recent weeks have seized the momentum in the civil...

 The nation's top military officer told a Senate panel Thursday the Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military power in Syria, where a civil war entering its third year has killed almost 93,000 people.   Amid an increasing clamor among President Bashir...