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 ...

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

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.

During a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting, the U.S. ambassador said “the United States did not support recent Israeli ...