UN special envoy Geir Pedersen called Sunday for a “step for step” approach in finding a political solution to Syria’s conflict, following his tour of Europe, the US, and Arab states. Several rounds of United Nations-brokered negotiations in Geneva since 2019 between the government and...

The players race across the pitch on crutches, jostling for the soccer ball and passing it back and forth, their prosthetic legs lined up along the sidelines at a stadium in the Gaza Strip. They are the first Palestinian national soccer team made up entirely of amputees — players drawn...

Syrian state television reported on Sunday that multiple explosions had been heard inside a U.S. base in the Al-Tanf region near the Iraqi border. The report was denied, however, by a commander in the U.S.-backed rebel group Maghawir al-Thawra, whose several hundred fighters work with U.S....

 Israel's Justice Ministry said Sunday that two police officers were brought in for questioning following the shooting death of a Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli man in east Jerusalem. Israeli police released surveillance video in which the attacker can be seen Saturday stabbing...