The former head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement died Saturday night after a long illness. He was 62. Ramadan Shalah had been in a coma for more than three years after heart surgery, the group said. It didn't say where he died, but he is believed to have been in Lebanon. Shalah...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Kurdish forces have arrested 17 people in eastern Deir Ezzor province over Daesh links, activists said Thursday. The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claimed the arrest campaign would secure oil fields from Daesh attacks along the Iraqi...

Most Israelis think their government's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank will spark a Palestinian uprising, but around half favour going ahead anyway, a poll showed Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to take steps towards annexation as soon as July 1,...

A total of 125 civilians, including 26 children and six women, were killed in Syria this May, mostly as a result of bombings, a rights group said on Monday. Of these fatalities, the Syrian regime forces killed 10 civilians, including two women, while Russian forces killed one civilian,...