As the Pentagon announced the drawdown of US troops in Iraq this week, the American military is shifting its focus to the ISIS threat emanating from neighboring Syria. “We’re ending the forever war in Iraq,” a senior US defense official told reporters on a call. The official said the...

France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged extremists, anti-terror prosecutors said -- a move that remains divisive a decade after the 2015 attacks in Paris. More than five years after ISIS’s territorial defeat in the region, tens of...

Syrian authorities have arrested members of a Hezbollah cell in western Damascus, the Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday. The cell had been operating in the Syrian capital’s countryside towns of Saasaa and Kanaker, according to Brigadier General Ahmed al-Dalati, Commander of...

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday, with the Houthi health ministry saying it killed 35 people and wounded 131 others. The strikes are the latest in a series of attacks and counterstrikes between Israel and Houthi militants in Yemen, part...