Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has documented three attacks involving “apparent war crimes” in which the Israeli army “unlawfully” struck medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon. These included attacks on paramedics at a civil defence centre in central Beirut on...

More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army’s reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in Lebanon. Some 300,000 reservists have been called up since October 7, 2023, according to the army, 18 percent of them men over 40 who...

The statistics on the number of tourists coming to Syria, issued by the Ministry of Tourism, have always sparked discussions and disagreements among observers and the media. This is not a matter related to the period after the events of the Syrian revolution, but rather dates back to before...

Russia said on Tuesday it had taken two eastern Ukrainian towns and open-source data indicated that Moscow’s forces were advancing at their fastest pace in at least a year amid signs the conflict is drawing in new players such as North Korea. The 2-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine is entering...