About 5,000 civilians in the north-west of Syria have once again been forced to flee their homes after a new wave of government shelling targeting the contested area, a local aid agency said. At least 31 people have died since the beginning of June as Bashar al-Assad’s forces have hit...

Syrian regime forces continued their attacks on rebel-held northwestern Syria on Wednesday, reportedly injuring three Turkish soldiers at an observation post in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of Idlib province and killing a woman and injuring her child near the city of Atareb in western Aleppo...

Twenty-five years ago, at about 9:30 pm in the evening of June 25, 1996, a huge explosion rocked the barracks for the United States Air Force 4404 Provisional Wing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The blast from a truck bomb was so massive it was felt in Bahrain 20 miles away. Nineteen American airmen...

Israeli fighter jets have launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip for the second time since a shaky ceasefire ended last month’s 11-day war. Palestinian sources on the ground said Israeli missiles on Thursday hit several sites belonging to armed groups northwest of Gaza City...