Two civilian planes in Lebanese airspace “narrowly avoide catastrophe” from Israeli warplanes, caretaker Transport Minister Youssef Fenianos said Wednesday. Fenianos said the warplanes were flying in Lebanese airspace “during [Israel’s] assault on southern Damascus”...

Syrian state-run  media are reporting that air defenses are repelling a missile attack near the capital of Damascus. State TV gave no further details Tuesday and did not say who was behind the barrage. The attack is the first since a missile assault on the southern outskirts of...

 The U.S.-led coalition in Syria conducted air strikes last week that destroyed facilities used by Daesh (ISIS), the coalition said Tuesday, less than a week after President Donald Trump declared victory over the militant group and said he would withdraw U.S. troops from the war-torn...

They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch. Land mines scattered by Yemen's Houthi rebels are largely unmapped and will remain a threat even if the latest push for peace succeeds in...