None hurt by fallout from intensified battles between Syrian army and rebels; Israeli defense minister says Israel will respond if its interests are threatened, according to Israeli newspapers. Ten mortar shells exploded on the occupied Golan Heights from early Tuesday...

   A month ago Obama administration officials promised to deliver arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels in the hope of reversing the tide of a war that had turned against an embattled opposition.   But interviews with American, Western and Middle...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition on Wednesday denied a Russian charge that rebel fighters fired a projectile laden with the nerve agent sarin at a suburb of Aleppo in March, saying U.N. inspectors should be allowed to investigate the attack. Separately, Western diplomats said Russia...

Hezbollah operatives fired in the air to disperse people who attacked the interior minister with stones after he inspected the scene of the blast  which rocked a stronghold of the Shia militant Hezbollah group south of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday,  trapping him...