Three people were shot and wounded in New York’s Times Square, the New York Police Department said on Saturday. The people - an 18 year-old female, 19-year old male, and a 65-year old male - are in a stable condition in hospital, an NYPD spokesperson said. A 17 year-old male is in custody,...

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Qatar’s prime minister on Saturday in Spain to discuss a plan to end the war in Gaza and release hostages, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said on X.

Syria will not take part in planned meetings with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Paris, Syria’s state news agency SANA quoted a government source as saying on Saturday. The source cited an earlier forum arranged by the US-backed SDF that it said was a violation of an accord...

  In 2018, following escalating tensions between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian regime in the city of Afrin, the area witnessed a secret deal under which the SDF handed over more than 600 detainees to regime forces, including civilians and political activists, on...