Around 180,000 Muslim worshippers performed Tarawih prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and prepared to observe the 27th night of Ramadan—Laylat al-Qadr—despite Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to the mosque. Laylat al-Qadr is the holiest night in Islam, when the Holy Quran...

Israeli warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes on the city and seaport of Latakia, northwestern Syria, in the early hours of Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks against Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime last December. According to Syria's state news agency SANA, the...

Ever since Issam began to realize what was happening around him, he has been searching for any trace of his father, Khaled Hassan Madkouk, who was arrested by Hafez al-Assad's regime in Raqqa in 1980. The father disappeared, and his son continued to search tirelessly until he contacted...

Palestinian militant group Hamas warned on Wednesday that hostages may be killed if Israel attempts to retrieve them by force and air strikes continue in the Gaza Strip. The group said in a statement that it was “doing everything possible to keep the occupation’s captives alive, but the...