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 ...

But backing Israel is expensive and Mr Trump hates spending lavishly to defend America’s allies. On top of $18bn in military aid, America has burned through at least $5bn to fund its own military ...

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

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

CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli jets targeted former Syrian army outposts in the central Homs province, two security sources said on Tuesday. The jets bombed army fortifications in the villages of ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

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 ...

The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had attacked two military bases in central Syria, stating that its troops had also clashed with militants in the country’s south. In a statement, the ...

A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks since the ...

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 ...