NATO said it was prepared to send troops to Turkey to defend its ally after violations of Turkish airspace by Russian jets bombing Syria and Britain scolded Moscow for escalating a civil war that has already killed 250,000 people. Officials at the U.S.-led alliance are still...

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned Israeli cabinet ministers and legislators from visiting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site where rising tensions have spilled over into a wave of Palestinian attacks. Four Israelis have been killed in stabbings in Jerusalem and a drive-by shooting...

Syrian regime forces and allied militia backed by Russian airstrikes launched an offensive against rebels in the Ghab Plain in western Syria Thursday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel fighting there said. Rebel groups led by the dominant Ahrar al-ShamIslamic...

Syrian troops and militia backed by Russian warplanes mounted what appeared to be their first major coordinated assault on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday and Moscow said its warships fired a barrage of missiles at them from the Caspian Sea, a sign of its new military reach. The...