Israel threatened a "harsh response" on Monday to any attempt by Syrian forces advancing against southern rebel areas to deploy in a Golan Heights frontier zone that was demilitarised under a 44-year-old U.N. monitored truce between the neighbouring foes. Syrian government forces backed...

Syrian regime air defences shot down missiles targeting the T4 air base in Homs province in an act of "aggression" Sunday night, state media said. The state media reports did not explain the origin and nature of the attack. Damascus, as well as its allies Iran and Russia, blamed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tensions raised between the powerful PYD militia and regime forces in the northeastern city of Hasaka when the Kurdish forces banned regime troops from passing to their checkpoints in the city suburbs, local activists said Sunday.   The move followed the arrest of...

Preliminary analysis by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog found chlorine was used in an attack in Douma, Syria, in April that killed dozens of civilians and prompted air strikes by Britain, France and the United States, it said Friday.  The Organization for the Prohibition of...