DAMASCUS, Syria ... Iran's proxy forces have suffered over the past year. Israel has battered Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel and the U.S. have been hitting the Houthis in Yemen.

Syria's interim president says the now departed Iranian forces were damaging to his country and also posed a threat to the wider Middle East. DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria's interim president said ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The president made the comment during a visit from Israel’s prime minister, and he signed an executive order to intensify a ...