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.

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

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 ...