The U.N. envoy for Libya denounced Friday the near breakdown of a fragile truce between the country’s warring sides, citing a "serious violation" over the last 24 hours - attacks on the capital including an early morning shelling of Tripoli’s airport. Ghassan Salame, hosting diplomatic...

An Israeli drone fired a missile at a car in southern Syria on Thursday, killing one person, Syrian state TV reported, while an opposition war monitor said the man targeted was an anti-Israel operative. The state-run media outlet gave no further details on the attack near the southern...

Calm returned Tuesday after a two-day flare-up in and around Gaza as a truce between Israel and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad appeared to take hold after initial jitters. The Israeli military reported no rocket fire from the territory during the morning and AFP correspondents in...

Six people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on Damascus, a war monitor said on Monday, as Israel confirmed raids on the Syrian capital as well as on the besieged Gaza Strip.  A statement from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group on Monday said two men, who were...