I WILL never know when or why Hakim Anza, a Syrian rebel commander whom I had once trusted, decided to betray me. I would hazard a guess that three years of savage war, combined with reports — rampant in every bazaar of northern Syria — of huge sums paid for...

(Reuters) - Israel bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group. Israel's security cabinet, which held an emergency session...

Reuters) - The bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers were found in the occupied West Bank, and Israel vowed to punish Hamas, the Palestinian group it accuses of abducting and killing them. "They were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by beasts," Prime Minister Benjamin...

(AFP)- The Syrian government signed a deal with a Russian firm Monday for the first phase of an irrigation project for the drought-hit northeast of the war-torn country, state media said. The project, which had been planned before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad...