A senior US diplomat traveled to Damascus for talks with the leadership of the interim authorities, a State Department spokesperson said Wednesday. Ambassador Daniel Rubinstein, who remains in the region, engaged in regional efforts concerning Syria, according to the spokesperson, who...

Israeli military strikes across Gaza killed at least 22 people on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as the US stepped up efforts to overcome sticking points between Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire to end the war. One of the airstrikes killed at least 10 people in a multi-storey house...

Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar al-Assad are reluctant to disarm and disband as ordered by the country’s new rulers, their spokesman told AFP. An opposition forces offensive ripped through Syria from the north and into Damascus on December 8, bringing to a...

The Syrian Civil Defense announced on Tuesday that two civilians were killed and another was seriously injured as a result of a landmine explosion left behind by the Assad regime in the town of Talhiyah in the eastern Idlib countryside, northwest Syria. In a separate incident, the White...