Upper Austrian authorities arrested a six-member Syrian smuggling gang suspected of illegally smuggling more than 300 people into Austria and onward to Germany. According to Austrian media, officers from the Upper Austrian State Crime Police Office dismantled the gang after seven months of...

Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa will visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss recent tensions along the border between the two countries, a Lebanese official said. “The defense minister will head a security delegation to Damascus to meet with his counterpart, Marhaf Abu Qasra,” the...

The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that 730 people had been killed since Israel resumed bombardments on the Palestinian territory on March 18, including 57 in the past 24 hours. The ministry said in a statement that it recorded “730 deaths and 1,367 injuries” since air strikes...

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on Monday during a visit to Jerusalem that Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon threatened to worsen the situation. The most intense escalation since a November ceasefire, which ended the war between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group...