More than 600 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip over two weeks ago, the Civil Defense Service said on Monday. “The bodies of dozens of dead people are still under the rubble and on the streets as civil defense teams...

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...

The Palestinian militant group Hamas will likely replace Yahya Sinwar with a new political leader based outside Gaza while his brother - Mohammad Sinwar - is expected to assume a bigger role directing the war against Israel in the territory, experts say. In its leadership deliberations,...

The Israeli military said its troops killed two armed assailants on Friday who had crossed into Israel from Jordan and lightly wounded two soldiers, in a rare attack in the border area. “Two terrorists who crossed from Jordan into Israeli territory south of the Dead Sea were eliminated by...