On June 28, 2014, the first day of Ramadan, Abdul Aziz Haitham Omar Agha, a 32-year-old Syrian man, was arrested at the al-Qutayfah checkpoint in the Damascus countryside while attempting to leave the country for Turkey. He was accompanied by his wife, two young children (one less than two...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen, and that he hoped it would not arise. In a fragment of an upcoming interview with Russian state television published on Telegram, Putin said that Russia...

A missile launched from Yemen towards Israel on Sunday landed near Ben Gurion Airport, the country’s main international airport, where footage shared on social media showed a plume of smoke visible from a passenger terminal. The Israeli military said it was investigating the fall of a...

Gaza mediator Qatar on Sunday rejected comments from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it needed to “stop playing both sides” in truce negotiations. Qatar “firmly rejects the inflammatory statements... which fall far short of the most basic standards of political and...