A prominent leader in Syria’s Alawite community described the ousted regime as an oppressive system and declared: “I say to all sects in Syria: You are my brother and my beloved, and I want to be like that in your eyes. Let us join hands and work together for the good of our homeland.”...

The health ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that 48 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll of the war to 45,484. The ministry also said in a statement that at least 108,090 people had been wounded in more than 14 months of war...

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza warned on Saturday about dire conditions faced by patients forcibly evacuated under Israeli military orders from Kamal Adwan Hospital to the Indonesian Hospital, which had already suffered severe damage from earlier Israeli airstrikes. In a statement,...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two Lebanese security officials said on Friday. The officials said that “many...