The US on Friday announced the approval of the sale of more than $3 billion in munitions, bulldozers and related equipment to Israel, which used American-made weapons to devastating effect in densely populated Gaza. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed off on the sales of $2.04 billion...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday said that Moscow and Washington have agreed on steps to remove obstacles to financing their embassies. Commenting on the outcome of Thursday’s talks in Istanbul, a ministry statement said that "discussions were conducted in a meaningful and businesslike...

The Israeli army has claimed it killed Mohammad Mahdi Ali Shaheen, a Hezbollah leader, in a Thursday airstrike in the eastern Lebanese region of Hermel. In a Friday statement, the Israeli army said that the airstrike had targeted the Bekaa Valley. “Shaheen, a key Hezbollah figure, was...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture, or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to be published Thursday tracing the deaths to seven suspected grave sites. In the report,...