Israel has achieved plenty of short-term military gains, but will that outweigh regional, and international, isolation?

Over 500 people are estimated to have been killed in the ongoing sectarian clashes between the Druze and Bedouin populations ...

The fighting is the latest challenge to the control of the government, which took over after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad in December.

Damascus believed it had a green light from both the US and ‘Israel’ to dispatch its forces south “despite months of Israeli warnings not to do so,” according to the sources, which include Syrian ...

As tensions simmer along Lebanon’s southern border, the long-standing debate over Hezbollah’s armed presence takes center ...