The first Bangladeshis airlifted home after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon described the constant fear of living in a city rocked by explosions. Late Monday the first 54 of some 1,800 Bangladeshis wanting to escape the troubled Mediterranean nation flew back to Dhaka on a...

Hundreds of far-right Israeli settlers gathered at a conference near the border with the Gaza Strip to press for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave. The event, held in an area designated by the Israeli army as a closed military zone near the settlement of Be’eri...

Syrian state media said a car exploded on Monday in the Mazzeh district of Damascus which is home to embassies and security headquarters but it did not specify the cause of the blast. The official SANA news agency reported “a car explosion in one of the neighborhoods” of Mazzeh, where...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was due to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday to discuss the escalating Middle East crisis and migration. Scholz arrived in Istanbul on Friday night after a meeting with US President Joe Biden and the leaders of France and Britain in Berlin....