Israeli forces rounded up 20 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian NGO on Monday. “Twenty Palestinians were detained by the Israeli military last night,” Amani Sarhana, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoner Society, told Anadolu...

The Syrian pound sank to a new record low on Sunday with a scramble for dollars in a country hit by sanctions and facing a severe foreign currency crunch, dealers and bankers said. Traders said it cost as much as 3,450 Syrian pounds to buy 1 dollar on the street on Sunday, more than 18%...

At least six people were wounded in a new car bomb attack rocking the opposition areas near the Turkish border, local activists said Saturday.   The blast of Sajo village near Azaz town has followed  a series of attacks by powerful Kurdish YPG militia on Turkish-held areas in...

Israeli media report the Syrian prisoner exchange negotiated by Russia, which included the repatriation of an Israeli woman who crossed the Golan frontier into Syria, in return for two Syrian shepherds who strayed into Israeli-held territory, involved another unprecedented Israeli “concession”....

Five Daesh/ISIS militants were killed in an Iraqi security operation north of Baghdad, according to a local security officer on Saturday. Police Captain Ahmed Khalaf told Anadolu Agency that a joint force from the Iraqi army and the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) Force shot dead...

Fierce clashes reported on Friday between Turkish-backed National Army and Kurdish forces in northeastern Hasakah province, following  a series of attacks and car bombs by US-backed Kurdish fighters on opposition areas, local activists said.   The clashes have...

Jordanian troops clashed with drug smugglers on the border with Syria on Friday, killing two people and seizing a shipment of hashish and amphetamines, the military said. The military said it thwarted two attempts to “infiltrate a group of people and smuggle quantities of drugs” into...

The PKK terrorist group’s Syrian branch, the YPG, detained 61 teachers who refused to follow the curriculum imposed by the terrorists or rejected forceful recruitment in regions occupied by the group in northern Syria. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), which documents human...

Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu's office announced early Friday that it had completed a Russian-mediated prisoner swap to bring home a young Israeli woman who crossed the border into Syria. In a statement, Netanyahu's office said the woman was on her way home, hours after...

After a decade of chaos that has likely taken hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions more, the Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in its latest report that no Syrian family had been left “unscathed”.  Pointing out that “cities have been reduced to rubble, and a...

An American journalist, living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade, has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Syrian opposition media reported. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been living in the rebel-held...

The United Arab Emirates is dismantling parts of a military base it runs in the East African nation of Eritrea after it pulled back from the grinding war in nearby Yemen, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show. The UAE built a port and expanded an airstrip in Assab beginning...

The deaths stacked up: a policeman shot dead with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a local official gunned down, his son wounded, an Iraqi man beheaded. In total, 20 men and women were killed last month in the sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing families of the Islamic State group....

 A hardline organization running Syria's last major opposition bastion released on Wednesday an American self-described journalist accused of having ties to jihadists, a war monitor said. "The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance has released Bilal Abdul Kareem, who has American...

United Arab Emirates-based carrier Flydubai is preparing for the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to rejoin its fleet, the Dubai government's media office said on Twitter on Thursday. The UAE civil aviation authority announced on Wednesday it was lifting the safety ban on the aircraft, which was...

With the help of Russian mediation, Damascus is securing the release of two Syrians held in Israel in exchange for releasing an Israeli woman that entered Syria by mistake, Syria’s official news agency reported Wednesday. The report did not provide details on when the Syrians were taken...

The Palestinian Authority, based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, had planned to send the Russian Sputnik V doses through Israel to Gaza, a separate territory run by Islamist movement Hamas. But on Monday evening, the PA health ministry said Israel had blocked the delivery. But on Monday...

Turkey’s soldiers are the only ones preventing the possible slaughter of millions of Syrians at the hands of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s forces, The New York Times said Tuesday.  “As an end to the decade-long Syrian civil war still confounds the world, Turkey has become the only...

Turkish security forces caught five Russian and one Libyan national, including a wanted Daesh/ISIS terrorist, near the border with Syria when they were trying to enter the country illegally, the National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “Our border guards stationed in Hatay’s Narlica...

By Reem Al-Hajj   After I was raped in 2010, the most painful thing for me was people’s insistence that I undergo a hymen repair operation to hide the crime committed against me and that I should not talk about the injustice that I had experienced. Of course, I understood that my...