At least 41 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, raising the death toll since October 2023 to 50,021, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. A ministry statement said the toll included two bodies retrieved from the rubble in the last 24 hours. The ministry said...

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned the military would hit back after intercepting three rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Saturday. “We cannot allow fire from Lebanon on Galilee communities,” Katz said in a statement. “The Lebanese government is responsible for...

At least 130 Palestinians were killed and 263 wounded in the past 48 hours of Israel’s offensive on Gaza, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said on Saturday. Israel has resumed bombing and ground operations in the Gaza Strip as it presses the Palestinian militant group Hamas to free...

At least 91 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes across Gaza on Thursday after Israel resumed bombing and ground operations, the enclave’s health ministry said. After two months of relative peace, Gazans were again fleeing for their lives after Israel effectively...

Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange Wednesday with each releasing 175 military personnel, according to statements from both sides. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that 175 Russian soldiers had been returned from Ukrainian-controlled territory following negotiations....

At least 70 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll since early Tuesday to over 470, the Gaza Civil Defense said Wednesday. The latest figures, published by Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal on Telegram, indicate that the victims...

The Israeli military said on Wednesday its forces have resumed ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip, as a second day of airstrikes killed at least 20 Palestinians, according to local health workers. The operations have extended Israel’s control over the Netzarim...

Most employees dismissed by the former regime in Aleppo face difficulties in returning to work after the government asked them to return. The most prominent of these difficulties is the low salaries, coupled with the high cost and unavailability of transportation. Mohamed, an employee at...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he discussed Russian and Ukrainian requests and needs for a peace deal in an hour-long call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Much of the discussion was based on the call made yesterday with President (Vladimir) Putin in order to align...

Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on an array of charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group. The Istanbul mayor's arrest comes days before his expected nomination as presidential candidate for Turkey's main...

Deadly Israeli strikes on Gaza drew condemnation from Arab nations and the international community, who urged Israel to halt hostilities and salvage a ceasefire deal. Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza, killing at least 326 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday. The...

Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza, killing 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, and threatening a complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as it vowed to use force to free its remaining hostages in the strip. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had...

Aid workers in the Palestinian territories told AFP they are concerned that rules recently floated by Israel could make already difficult humanitarian work “almost impossible”. Since Israel’s war on Gaza broke out on October 7, 2023, aid organizations have been contending with a “slippery...

The Iran-backed Houthis claimed on Monday to have twice attacked an American aircraft carrier group within 24 hours, calling it retaliation for deadly US strikes. The Houthis initially said they launched 18 missiles and a drone at the “aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying...

US President Donald Trump said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine, after positive talks between US and Russian officials in Moscow. “I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the...

Israeli military strikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday, as Arab and US mediators work to shore up a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian officials say dozens of people have been...

Dr. Hassan Hazouri, a professor of economics at the University of Aleppo, believes that the most prominent expected outcome of the Syrian government's agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is the resumption of oil and gas fields, which could gradually increase production to...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a phone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday, stressed the importance of joint cooperation between Turkey and the United States to lift sanctions imposed on Syria, with the aim of restoring stability and empowering the new Syrian...

The Forum of Palestinian Journalists announced Friday the death of Alaa Hashim, who died of injuries she previously sustained in an Israeli bombardment of Gaza City in the course of its genocidal war. Hashim's death brought the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli aggression on...

"These children could have gathered in one classroom to talk about their dreams and aspirations, but bullets, shelling, and death made this meeting possible only on the pages of this book." With these words, al-Kheder Al-Khalifa introduces his new narrative book, "If Only We Were Like Ants -...