Death toll in Gaza rises to 119, as threat of a ground assault looms after Israel amasses tanks and troops near besieged enclave. Israel continued on Friday to bombard the Gaza Strip with air raids and artillery shells as it stepped up the deployment of troops and tanks near the...

In a statement on Twitter, the Israel Defense Forces said military forces are attacking Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from southern Israel, described sounds artillery being fired into Gaza and machine-gun fire from a helicopter as a column of Israeli armoured vehicles...

The  Lebanese army said Monday it has foiled an attempt to smuggle 60 people, mostly from Syria, out of Lebanon, days after dozens of Syrians were caught trying to cross to Cyprus. "A naval force unit stopped a boat detected by radar 10 nautical miles off the city of Tripoli" in...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli helicopter gunship opened fire on Monday on a home at the edge of Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, wounding one person, Syrian state TV reported. The TV said the unidentified man, reported to be a civilian, was taken to hospital for treatment...