Israel's intelligence minister said Tuesday that Syria cannot be allowed to obtain chemical weapons, after a report emerged that Israel targeted the country's chemical weapons facilities. In an interview with Israeli Army Radio, Elazar Stern would not directly comment on the report in...

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Nearly 10 years after Imad al-Hisso fled the civil war in Syria, he remains trapped in Gaza, a place he calls "a prison," with no clear path to return home. Gaza may seem an unlikely destination for those fleeing conflict. The coastal...

The European Union imposed sanctions Monday on a group of private Russian military contractors it accuses of fomenting violence and committing human rights abuses in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine. EU foreign ministers agreed to slap asset freezes and travel bans on eight people...

US forces carried out a “large airborne operation” near Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria on Monday at dawn, Syrian state news agency SANA said. The American forces landed in the town of Busayra, east of Deir Ezzor, and “kidnapped a number of civilians,” it said. There was no independent...