The Israeli army launched an airstrike in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, the first such attack since a cease-fire agreement last month, Lebanese media said. The Israeli strike targeted an area between the towns of Talia and Hizzine in the Baalbek district, the state news...

Austria has begun procedures that will allow some Syrians to return to their country, two weeks after the fall of the Assad regime, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported. Syrians who have lived in the Alpine republic for less than five years have received a phone call from the authorities...

Activity at Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base in Syria, which played a pivotal role in altering the trajectory of the civil war in late 2015, has reportedly come to a near standstill. Following the summer of 2015, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad faced significant losses to opposition forces,...

At least eleven people are dead and up to 80 people injured in an attack on a German Christmas market in Magdeburg, Bild newspaper reported Friday, without citing its sources. A car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg, broadcaster MDR and other...