Israel has successfully tested its upgraded Arrow missile interceptor for the second time. The warhead is designed to manoeuvre in space to counter what Israel considers a ballistic threat from Lebanon’s Hezbollah as well as Syria and Iran. The United States and Israel have been...
More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war that began in March 2011, an NGO said on Wednesday. The tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came as renewed regime air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo killed at...
The Islamic Front declares that it is launching “Revenge Foray”, against Bashar al-Assad's army positions in Latakia Province in western Syria, in response to last month’s mass killing of civilians by the Syrian military’s airstrikes in and near Aleppo.
Jordan takes over the U.N. Security Council presidency on Wednesday, the first day of its two-year stint on a 15-nation body struggling to cope with conflicts in Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere. Jordan will join Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria...
