Syrian authorities insisted Wednesday they would “never be a threat” to anyone in the region, after Israel bombed the country’s south in retaliation for overnight rocket fire on the Golan Heights. Israeli media said the projectiles were the first launched from Syria into Israeli...

The Syrian General Security announced the arrest of Tariq Habib Asmandar, the former deputy commander of the Taftanaz military airbase, on charges of committing "brutal massacres" in the town of Taftanaz in the southern Idlib countryside and surrounding villages during the war. According to...

A security source in the southern province of Daraa confirmed Thursday that reports of a coup against the Ministry of Defense are completely false. The source explained to Al-Watan newspaper this evening that the incident in the city of Busra al-Sham resulted from a previous dispute between...

Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials told Reuters. The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued...