The move is part of the new government's attempts to form a unified professional military and regain control over all of Syria's territory.

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from several countries backing either the rebels or ...

Local media report that the Israeli military is building six bases in the country's south, entrenching itself on territory ...

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from ...

Abdo Ali Al Kouma was the backbone of his family in the small Syrian farming village of Ghadir Al Bustan, a cluster of low-slung houses surrounded by dry stone walls, fruit trees and flowers. All that ...

Syria's new government has strongly condemned Israel's incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international community to pressure Israel into withdrawing.