Egypt on Saturday called on Israel to lift restrictions on the entry of relief aid to Gaza through land border crossings, and welcomed the arrival of the first aid ship by sea to the besieged Palestinian enclave.  “Egypt appreciates and welcomes every effort aimed at alleviating the...

One-third of children under the age of two in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said on Saturday.  
“Children's malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza,” UNRWA said on X. The UN agency...

Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Mustafa on Friday accepted the task of forming a new government.   “The Prime Minister-designate accepted in a letter sent to the president tonight his assignment to form the 19th government as specified in the law and to pursue...

AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years,  Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict , the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of  President Bashar Assad , various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces. But as the conflict...