With its air raid simulator and battlefield reconstructions, the state-of-the-art Holy Defense Museum in Tehran seeks to glorify the Iran-Iraq war as a time when the country faced down "the whole world." As Iranians prepare to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the devastating...

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz Tuesday welcomed the killing of a leading Syrian weapons scientist but declined to comment on reports his government was behind the fatal bombing. Gen. Aziz Asbar, head of a Syrian government weapons research center, was killed along with his...

(CBC)- A Halifax man who is the first person charged with violating Canada's economic sanctions against Syria is back in Damascus doing business there, CBC News has learned. Nader Kalai — a Syrian national with permanent residency in Canada — is known to be a close associate of...

The head of a Syrian research facility that Western countries say was part of a chemical weapons program was killed when his car was blown up, the pro-Syrian government newspaper al-Watan said Sunday. Aziz Asber was the director of the Syrian Scientific Research Centre in Masyaf, near...