Syrian opposition fighters told AFP they found around 40 bodies bearing signs of torture inside a hospital morgue near Damascus on Monday, stuffed into body bags with numbers and sometimes names written on them. “I opened the door of the morgue with my own hands, it was a horrific sight:...

Israel launched strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus and a military site near the western city of Homs on Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured the region pushing for a halt to fighting. The Israeli strikes targeted the central Damascus...

A huge fireball lit up the night sky and plumes of smoke rose over south Beirut early Sunday as Israel unleashed intense air strikes targeting Hezbollah, nearly a year since the Gaza war erupted. Israeli forces were on high alert ahead of Monday’s anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack,...

An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials. The Israeli military said that Hamas militants were operating from within the school. It was the...