An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been vacant for years.

The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack on a building in Damascus. Tel Aviv claims it housed the headquarters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The target of the attack, as reported by Reuters citing sources in the Syrian security services,

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

Religious and ethnic minorities, as well as the US and Europe, are wary about freedom of expression protections