Israeli forces raided and closed the office of Al Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Sunday, in what has been described as an "arbitrary military decision." The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli authorities ordered the staff to leave the premises before shutting...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked to meet Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of UN talks in New York next week to normalize ties. Turkey and Syria severed diplomatic relations in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian war, but Erdogan has sought...

Five employees of the Health Ministry in Gaza were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the ministry’s storage facilities in the Musbah area of Rafah, southern Gaza, the ministry said on Saturday. In a statement, the ministry said that ambulances have been unable to reach the site to recover...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Thursday that it carried out 17 attacks on Israeli soldiers, military vehicles and settlements in northern Israel, marking its largest operation in around 100 days. The attacks came amid a new wave of escalation between Israel and Hezbollah following a series...