The recent Israeli airstrike on Syria targeted Fateh-110s, advanced surface-to-surface missiles, believed to be en route to Hezbollah from Iran, American officials said May 4, The New York Times reported.

A bomb killed five U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the U.S. Armed Forces said May 4, Reuters reported.

Indonesia will host an ASEAN Plus Eight joint counterterrorism training exercise in Bogor, West Java, in September, the Indonesian Defense Ministry said May 4, Xinhua reported.

Syrian President Bashar al Assad visited a university in Damascus on May 4 for his second public appearance in less than a week, AP reported.

The United States will send about 10 military personnel to Mali to provide liaison support to French and African troops and 12 soldiers to guard the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, a Pentagon spokesman said April 30, The Washington Post reported.

China has allegedly sold helicopter gunships to ethnic Wa rebels in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, The Irrawaddy reported April 30, citing Jane's Information Group.

The Israeli air force launched a strike against a terror facility and weapons storage site in southern Gaza on April 28 in response to overnight rocket fire on the Sdot Negev Regional Council, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Rebels attacked the Abu Zuhour air base in northwestern Idlib province April 27, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, AP reported.