Kurdish party leader Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday urged fighters to lay down their arms and to dissolve the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group that he founded. Here are five key dates in the history of Ocalan and the PKK, which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state...

At least five Israeli airstrikes pounded the city of Al-Kiswah, south of the capital, and the countryside of Daraa, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes targeting military sites belonging to the First Division in the Al-Kiswah area...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that his country’s military is preparing to occupy the Gaza Strip under the leadership of the newly appointed Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, in coordination with US President Donald Trump’s administration. Smotrich made the remarks during a...

At least 125 Syrian detainees in Roumieh prison in Lebanon continue their hunger strike for the eleventh consecutive day, in protest against the delay in implementing the announced agreement between the Syrian and Lebanese governments regarding the return of detainees. According to sources...