A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning at 0630 GMT, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal. The exact time of the ceasefire’s start had been unclear, though Israel had said no Palestinian...

US President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that the Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas "better hold," warning that if it does not "all hell will break out." When asked about the likelihood of the deal's success in a phone interview with NBC News, Trump...

Hundreds of families of detainees gathered in Umayyad Square in Damascus on Friday to demand to know the fate of their sons and denounce what they called the "marginalization" of the detainees' file. The families demanded that the new Syrian authorities give the file of detainees and...

The German government has decided to pay 1,700 euros to each Syrian family who wants to return to their country voluntarily as assistance, as part of a package of measures that the Federal Ministry of the Interior is working on regarding asylum and voluntary return. According to a statement...