Bashar al Assad has assigned Maj. General Abdulsalam Mahmoud, deputy director of the Air Force Intelligence Department, to handle the security portfolio in southern Syria. According to a well-informed source, the appointment of Mahmoud, a Shiite officer who had secretly visited Tehran...

Forces from Ethiopia's rebel Tigray region fired rockets on Friday at the distant capital of the neighboring Amhara region, Amhara authorities said, raising worries the conflict could spill into a wider war. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people have been killed and tens of thousands of...

After Turkey withdrew from observation posts within regime-controlled areas, Syria and Russia stepped up their attacks in Idlib, raising fears of an imminent battle. Russian airstrikes accompanied by Syrian regime-led bombardment have escalated in some areas of the northwest province...

At least three terrorists in Syria’s northwestern Al-Bab and Jarablus regions were arrested on Tuesday for their suspected links to the YPG/PKK and Daesh/ISIS terror groups, Turkey’s Gaziantep Governorate said. 
In the [Operation] Euphrates Shield region, local law enforcement...