Hundreds of Sudanese civilians and unarmed fighters may have been killed during the Sudanese paramilitary forces’ capture of the long-besieged city of al-Fashir, the UN human rights office said on Friday. The city, the Sudanese army’s last significant holdout in the western...

Hamas handed over the remains of two Israeli hostages to the Red Cross on Thursday evening under a ceasefire agreement, the Israeli army confirmed. A military statement said the coffins were transferred to the Red Cross and were on their way to Israeli troops inside the Gaza Strip. Hamas...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa held talks in Riyadh on Tuesday with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan as part of his current visit to Saudi Arabia, local media said. The state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV said the discussions between Sharaa and bin Farhan dwelt on the implementation of...

The Syrian interior ministry said Tuesday that it had seized about 11 million captagon stimulant pills that entered the country from neighboring Lebanon in one of the largest busts since the fall of former ruler Bashar al-Assad. In a statement, the interior ministry said “the...