Israel calculates this new strategy would improve its chances of definitively uprooting Hamas. But taking control of the ...

​ Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with four Times Opinion columnists about how ...

In years past, Israel might have been content to stop there. But its current leaders favour an unbridled assertion of power, some for pragmatic reasons, others for ideological ones. They are seizing ...

The bombardment signals the risks of a deepening rift between two powerful regional militaries over Syria, where Islamist ...

Syria’s new leadership is trying to rebuild its army from the ruins of sectarianism and foreign intervention. The fledgling ...

Israel's army is organising hiking tours for Israeli citizens inside occupied Syrian territory during the Passover holiday next weekend, according to local media. Participants will cross the ...

Syrian media and activists posted clips showing the Syrian army firing artillery shells and rockets at sites inside Lebanese territory west of Homs province early Monday. In addition, the Lebanese ...

Residents of southwestern Syria say they fear the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Syria’s new authorities.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he ordered the army to respond to sources of fire from northern and eastern borders with Syria. Drone view of a towed Syrian tank as they head towards the ...

Late on Sunday, Syria’s defense ministry accused Hezbollah of crossing into Syrian territory and kidnapping and killing three members of Syria’s new army. For all the latest headlines follow ...

Hezbollah “ambushed and kidnapped three members of the Syrian Arab Army on the Syrian-Lebanese border near the Zeita Dam, west of Homs, before taking them to Lebanese territory and executing ...