Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a 'butcher' who should be thrown out of the country along with his Iranian allies. "In my personal opinion, Assad is a butcher who massacred and murdered people," Lieberman told a conference of Jews from the...

If ISIS group is to be defeated and prevented from reappearing under some new guise, the root causes behind its birth and growth must be addressed, American experts say. In the face of an uprising that has catalyzed and channeled anger, frustrations and resentments of a significant part of...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the Kremlin’s bombing campaign in Syria last year to back up leader Bashar Assad, the regime’s forces were being pushed back. Now Damascus is celebrating its biggest victory in over five years of war after recapturing control of the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo, where thousands were evacuated on Thursday from the last rebel bastion in a city besieged for years. Kerry, speaking at a news briefing, said...