The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year would not reduce U.S. aid to Israel but that assistance levels to other nations, including Egypt and Jordan, were still being evaluated. "Our assistance to Israel is ......

Warplanes struck a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jina, in northwest Syria, killing at least 42 people and wounding dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor , said on Thursday. The jets struck the village, southwest of Atarib near Aleppo, as the...

A hospital in an opposition-held part of Damascus has seen its third kidney dialysis patient die since the beginning of the year, the hospital said Thursday. The Damascus Periphery Special Hospital in eastern Ghouta said Muhammad Amra died because medical supplies were unable to get...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that "more than military spending" is needed to combat terrorism, after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed an extra $54 billion in military spending in 2018. "There is also a need to address the underlying drivers of...