JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was back in court for his corruption trial on Monday as the country's political parties were set to weigh in on whether he should form the next government after a closely divided election or step down to focus on his legal woes....

As ethnic militias back the popular uprising and refugees flee the country, the similarities with Syria are deeply disturbing n August 2011, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s then foreign minister, made a “mercy dash” to Damascus. He appealed in person to Syria’s president, Bashar...

The bodies of three sisters missing in Lebanon have washed up on a Syrian beach and a probe is underway to determine how they drowned, a Lebanese security official said Sunday. The sisters went missing from a village in northern Lebanon on Monday, said the official, adding that Syrian...

A local monitoring group said Saturday that Syrian regime and Russia’s airstrikes have bombed out of service at least 430 schools in southern Daraa province between 2013 and  2018. Ahrar Horan Gathering said the airstrikes conducted by Syrian regime and the Russian Air...