Lebanon’s army has arrested Nouh Zaiter, one of the country’s most notorious drug lords, a source confirmed to Al Arabiya English on Thursday. In a post on X, the army said it had detained “one of the most dangerous wanted individuals” during an ambush on the...

France on Thursday urged Israel to withdraw its forces from Syrian territory and to respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, warning that any military deployment in the UN-mandated separation zone violates longstanding international obligations. Speaking at a press briefing in...

Israeli airstrikes killed five people and wounded 18 others in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, after Hamas and Israel accused each other of violating an increasingly fragile near six-week-old truce. Medics said that one strike on a...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday told Israeli troops deployed in Syria in a buffer zone intended to separate the two countries’ forces that their presence was hugely important for safeguarding Israel. When Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in...