U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday that the international community was "surprised to see that the opposition forces moved as quickly as they did" in Syria as President Bashar Assad's ...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — The U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic ... Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told The Associated Press. American forces are still ...

TASS/. Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke by phone to discuss the situation in Syria and security issues, the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a ...

Netanyahu’s remarks, delivered during a speech to newly graduated officers in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, have reignited tensions in the region. He emphasized that Israel would not tolerate the presence ...

DAMASCUS, Syria— Debra Tice, the mother of American journalist Austin Tice who went missing in Syria twelve years ago, is visiting Syria and meeting with officials in the country's new de facto ...