Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people in the battered Palestinian territory on Thursday as the military keeps up an intensified offensive. “Ten martyrs so far resulting from Israeli strikes since dawn,” agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP,...

Turkey is training and advising Syria’s armed forces and helping improve its defenses, and has no immediate plans for the withdrawal or relocation of its troops stationed there, Defense Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters. Turkey has emerged as a key foreign ally of Syria’s new government...

An extremist jailed over the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016 went on trial in Stockholm on Wednesday for his role in the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot burned alive in Syria. The case is considered unique as the other extremists involved in the brutal...

Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh announced on Tuesday the merger of the Syrian Civil Defense with the Ministry of Emergency Management, a move described as a historic shift in humanitarian and relief work within Syria. The announcement came during an...