Israel is upgrading its Arrow II ballistic missile shield in a U.S.-backed 'race' against Iran, Syria and other regional enemies, a senior Israeli defense official said on Sunday.

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At least 13 people were killed across Syria on Saturday as fierce fighting raged in Aleppo and Damascus, the country's two biggest cities, a rights group said.

Overnight in Aleppo, rebel forces withd

Syrian rebels used tanks to attack a military airport northwest of Aleppo on Thursday, a rebel commander said, as a human rights group reported 67 people killed in violence nationwide.

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Iran blamed Western and Arab countries on Friday for the failure of Kofi Annan's Syria peace plan, the official IRNA news agency said on Friday, a day after the former U.N. secretary general quit as i

Syrian opposition fighters in the besieged city of Aleppo have 'tanks' and 'heavy weapons', the UN spokesman said on Wednesday.

International pressure must be put on the Syrian opposition, as well a

The Syrian army is engaged in a 'crucial and heroic battle,' President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday in a speech published by official media agency SANA on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of

Rebels overran two police stations in Aleppo on Tuesday killing at least 40 policemen, a watchdog said, as fighting for control of Syria's commercial capital raged into a fourth day.

Syrian combat aircraft and artillery pounded two areas of Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled for control of the country's biggest city, but rebel fighters said troops loyal to President Bashar al-A

France, which is taking over the UN Security Council's rotating presidency in August, will call an emergency ministerial meeting on Syria, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said Monday.

Syria's top diplomat in London resigned on Monday in protest against the ‘violent and oppressive’ acts of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the British Foreign Office said.

The move comes after a s