Fierce clashes raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided insurgent strongholds, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least seven rebels were killed in regime shelling and air...

An Islamist official in Libya's government and 10 other passengers and crew were killed when a military plane carrying medical patients crashed near Tunisia's capital early on Friday, officials said. The Libyan Antonov aircraft went down after the pilot tried to land in farmland...

  Bashar al-Assad forces backed by Iran proxy Hezbollah militia kept up their shelling of the town of Yabroud and the surrounding Qalamoun region over the last two weeks.  Regime's fighter jets hit the main market of Yabroud Friday, leaving mass destruction, activists said...

The Syria regime of embattled President Bashar al-Assad is ready to lend neighboring Lebanon a hand in combatting terrorism, the Syrian state-run agency reported late Thursday. The Syrian Interior Ministry stressed its readiness to help Lebanon “in the fields of counter terrorism, pursuing...