Pro-Jihadis' websites posted online undated photo for Moroccan family purporting fighting in Syria; the Father appeared with his 5 rebel sons. Since 2011, large numbers of Muslims have gone to Syria to fight with the rebels.   The Syrian conflict began as a...

A senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was gunned down Wednesday outside his home in southern Beirut, security officials said. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the killing, something officials there quickly denied. Hezbollah immediately announced the death of...

Israel is providing humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians caught up in fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, its defence minister said on Tuesday. Israel has not publicly taken sides in the 2-1/2-year-old conflict in...

  Fire by snipers loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is blocking efforts to evacuate 12 Syrian and Lebanese Orthodox nuns from their convent in the town of Maalula, which was overrun by rebels on Monday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported Tuesday, citing rebel sources....