Israel said it killed four Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria's four-year-old civil war. An Israeli defence official said the...

The UN Security Council Monday backed a push for Syrian peace talks as the death toll in government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100, sparking global outrage. It came just hours after UN officials expressed horror over Sunday's deadly raids on Douma, among the...

The Syrian military bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where around 100 people were killed on Sunday in an air strike on a market, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Sunday's air strike on Douma, 10 miles (15 km)...

Two Saudi border guards have been killed in an attack from Yemen by Iran-backed rebels, Riyadh's official news agency and a rebel-run news site said. Sergeants Ali al-Ghazwani and Sarwi al-Saeed were "martyred while carrying out their duty in protecting the country's borders from...