Updates:    At least 18 civilians, including 4 children, were killed in regime bombing, local activists said Thursday. - At least 47 regime troops have been killed in a fresh death toll.   - Rebels took control of the intelligence and army checkpoints...

Lebanese firefighters are struggling for the second day to contain wildfires in the country's north that have spread across the border into Syria, civil defense officials in both countries said Thursday. The fires killed at least one person, a 15-year-old boy, who was helping firefighting...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that “apparently amount to war crimes” during an 11-day war in May against the Hamas militant group. The international human rights organization issued its conclusions after...

The United Nations has voiced deep concern over the escalating violence in northwestern Syria, which poses an increasing risk to civilians. Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the ongoing fighting caused the death and injury to dozens of...