Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli towns on Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the civil war that has repeatedly spilled over the border. The projectiles crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian militia has seized two villages from ISIS in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, such a gain comes a day after declaring victory in Raqqa, once ISIS de-facto capital, local media unit said. The Syrian Democratic Forces took villages of Sfiera and Shaqra, ISIS...

At least 52 Egyptian police officers have been killed in an ambush by Islamist fighters near the Bahariya oasis in the country's Western Desert, security and medical sources said Saturday, in a rare flare-up outside the Sinai Peninsula. The interior ministry said security forces hunting...

An Egyptian security official says 14 policemen have been killed in a shootout with militants southwest of Cairo. The official says the exchange of gunfire took place on Friday in the al-Wahat al-Bahriya district in the Giza governorate, about 135 kilometers, or 84 miles, from the...