Syrian forces said they had surrounded on Wednesday a camp housing a prominent French extremist wanted by his government, sparking clashes at the site according to a monitoring group. The operation in northwest Syria was the new government’s first known assault targeting extremists since...

The Israeli military launched an attack on Gaza on Sunday, Israeli media reported, dimming hopes that a week-old US-mediated ceasefire would lead to lasting peace in the enclave as Israel traded blame with Palestinian militant group Hamas. An Israeli military official said on Sunday that...

Israeli forces carried out an incursion into Saida al-Hanout village in southern Quneitra countryside, the state-run news agency reported on Sunday. According to SANA reporter in Quneitra, a unit consisting of 11 military vehicles entered Saida al-Hanout and constructed a barrier at...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were forbidden to leave their cabs. Mechanics and...