The Israeli military said it struck and destroyed an anti-aircraft battery deep in Syria on Monday after it had opened fire on Israeli jets flying over Lebanon – the first such incident of Syrian forces targeting Israeli planes since the civil war be [Read story...]

Shortly before noon today , Syria fired Russian-made SA5 surface-to-air missiles at Israeli fighter jets that were on a reconnaissance mission over Lebanon. Thanks to Hashem, the Israeli jets emerged unscathed. [Read story...]

THE Israeli military has clashed with Syria over Lebanese airspace in the beginning of what could be a series of post-ISIS powerplays in the troubled region. The Raqqa Civil Council addressed a group of Syrian Islamic State fighters who had surrender [Read story...]

A Turkish military armored vehicle patrols on the border line located opposite the Syrian town of Atimah, Idlib province, in this picture taken from Reyhanli, Hatay province, Turkey, Oct. 10, 2017. Turkey is expanding its latest military intervention [Read story...]

In meeting with Sergei Shoigu, Netanyahu repeats warning that Tehran is on track to get a nuke in the next decade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian defense chief Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday that Israel will not tolerate the presence of Iran [Read story...]

Much blood has been spilled in Syria's civil war, and many of Assad's neighbors have supported forces that sought his ouster. Whether to reengage with someone accused of crimes against humanity is more than just a tactical decision. [Read story...]

Castigating Iran's FM for asserting all Iranians support Revolutionary Guards, PM underlines who helped Hezbollah carry out the 1994 attack in which 85 civilians died Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran's Islamic Revoluti [Read story...]

The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, arrived on Tuesday in Damascus with a high-ranking military delegation, the Azerbaijani-based Trend news agency reported. The visit is taking place at the official invitat [Read story...]

In the wake of the alarming exchange between Israel and Syria earlier this week, Israel braces for a possible escalation. Israeli fighter jets on Monday destroyed a Syrian SA-5 anti-aircraft battery east of Damascus, after the missile defense system [Read story...]

The Latest on the developments in Syria after the liberation of the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group : A media outlet affiliated with the Syrian military says a senior commander who led the fight against Islamic Sate militants in the easter [Read story...]

Mohammad Baqeri speaks from Damascus before talks to expand military cooperation there, as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns Iran will 'shred' nuke deal if Trump reneges Illustrative: An IAF F-16 from the Red Dragon squadron during a drill, Novemb [Read story...]

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to adopt the Trump administration's comprehensive approach to Iran and address all aspects of its “destructive conduct” – not just the 2015 nuclear deal. She told the counci [Read story...]

Derek Stoffel is the Middle East correspondent for CBC News. He has covered the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, reported from Syria during the ongoing civil war and covered the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. [Read story...]

The prominent Syrian Arab Army officer, Major General Issam Zahreddine, was killed today in Deir Ezzor after his convoy struck a land mine planted by the Islamic State . According to a military source, General Zahreddine was conducting a special oper [Read story...]

In this May 9, 2015 file photo, a Hezbollah fighter stands on a hill next to the group's yellow flag in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, in Assal al-Ward Syria. The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of the Islamic State group [Read story...]

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Mourners escort the truck carrying the coffin of Gen. Hossein Hamedani, a commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard C [Read story...]

An IDF Merkava tank drives near the border with Syria on the Golan Heights, on November 28, 2016. Israeli tanks struck a Syrian army mortar position near the city of Quneitra on Thursday, hours after a shell from Syria landed in the northern Golan He [Read story...]

A senior Turkish military officer, sitting near the Turkey-Syria border, tells me that his troops are alert and ready for action. Commando units and heavy artillery have moved to the border in Turkey's Reyhanli district and they have been conduct [Read story...]

Syria's foreign minister said on Saturday that victory was within reach in the country and that Damascus hoped de-escalation zones will help reach a cessation of hostilities. “The liberation of Aleppo and Palmyra, the lifting of the siege of Deir [Read story...]

State TV aired a video that it said showed Iran's newest medium-range ballistic missile being test fired. Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Friday publicly unveiled the new missile, called the Khoramshahr, which is capable of reaching much of the [Read story...]

Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan speaks during a the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. [Read story...]

Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told the U.S. General Assembly on Saturday that the central government views the vote as unconstitutional and divisive. The Kurds are an ethnic group with populations in Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey. [Read story...]

There's a popular saying in Kurdistan that the Kurds' only friends are the mountains, meaning that when they need to fight back against occupiers or invaders, the only support they can count on is their forbidding terrain. This isn't quit [Read story...]

Nasser Haj Mansour of the Syrian Democratic Forces said the Conoco gas field and plant came under full control of the group Saturday morning after days of fighting with the extremists. He added that Syrian Democratic Forces fighters also captured the [Read story...]