Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels ...

By disabling significant parts of Syria's military, Israel’s swift action has prevented Syria from becoming a wholesale ...

Once a French-run mandate, Syria became independent after World War II. In 1966, military officers belonging to the Alawite minority took power. That assured the domination of the group ...

Israel invoked a World War II precedent in trying to justify its preemptive strikes in Syria. During WWII, the Royal Navy attacked the ... rump state of Vichy comprising southern France and the ...

Impact Link When Israel sank six Syrian warships ... attacks on the military remnants of the ousted Assad government, Israel's leader invoked a precedent from World War II. "This is similar ...

A Syria war monitor on Thursday said clashes between the army and jihadists killed more than 130 combatants in the worst fighting in the country's northwest in years, as the government also ...

A Syria war monitor said Monday that overnight Israeli strikes targeted military positions and depots in several parts of the country, after Islamist-led rebels ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

as smoke rises in the distance during clashes with the Syrian army — Abdulaziz KETAZ A Syria war monitor on Thursday said clashes between the army and jihadists killed more than 130 combatants in the ...