A war monitor said Tuesday that Israel had “destroyed the most important military sites in Syria” with a flurry of airstrikes since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops into a buffer zone east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights...

Syrian opposition fighters told AFP they found around 40 bodies bearing signs of torture inside a hospital morgue near Damascus on Monday, stuffed into body bags with numbers and sometimes names written on them. “I opened the door of the morgue with my own hands, it was a horrific sight:...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for almost 60 years, would remain Israeli “for eternity”. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu thanked US President-elect Donald Trump for recognizing Israel’s 1981...

Germany, France, Austria and several Nordic countries said Monday they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. While Berlin and other governments said they were watching the fast-moving developments in the war-ravaged...