U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Israel Friday for talks expected to focus on Iran, Syria and the two countries' close strategic relations despite recent tensions with Barack Obama's administration. Mattis held talks with Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman Friday morning, to be...

By Rani Abdo (Zaman Al Wasl) A senior member of the British Labor Party said Iran ordered the allied Shiite militias in Syria to launch offensive on Khan Sheikhoun, almost three weeks since the deadly Sarin gas attack killed 90 people in the northern town. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, the...

Iraqi forces retook two more neighborhoods in west Mosul on Thursday, tightening the noose around extremists holed up in the Old City, commanders said. "The forces completed the liberation of Al-Thawra neighborhood," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told...

Israel's military said on Wednesday it believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces still possess several tonnes of chemical weapons, issuing the assessment two weeks after a chemical attack that killed nearly 90 people in Syria. Israel, along with many countries, blames the strike on...