Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missiles launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago. Syria's military said it had downed an Israeli plane and hit another as they were...

The U.S. military says it carried out an airstrike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where at least 42 people were killed according to an independent monitor. The U.S.-led coalition has been bombing extremist groups in war-torn Syria for...

Canadian politicians will head to Washington next week for three days of meetings in hopes of stressing to the Americans the importance of the Canadian-U.S. relationship, particularly trade. The Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG), as the annual meetings are called, will feature about a dozen...

 Sixteen lawyers were among the dozens killed in a suicide attack that struck the main judicial building in the capital Damascus, the head of Syria's Bar Association said Thursday. Meanwhile, blood stains and damage from the attack a day earlier were swiftly removed as people returned to...