Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz Tuesday welcomed the killing of a leading Syrian weapons scientist but declined to comment on reports his government was behind the fatal bombing. Gen. Aziz Asbar, head of a Syrian government weapons research center, was killed along with his...

 An international rights group is urging the U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) to investigate airstrikes that killed civilians in the campaign to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa. Amnesty International says the coalition's admission last month that it killed 78 more civilians...

Iranians were bracing on Monday for the return of US sanctions against the backdrop of angry protests and a corruption crackdown that are roiling the embattled government of President Hassan Rouhani. The country has seen days of sporadic protests and strikes in multiple towns and cities...

The head of a Syrian research facility that Western countries say was part of a chemical weapons program was killed when his car was blown up, the pro-Syrian government newspaper al-Watan said Sunday. Aziz Asber was the director of the Syrian Scientific Research Centre in Masyaf, near...