Israeli tanks were seen in two Gaza City areas that are gateways to the city center, residents said on Thursday, while internet and phone lines were cut off across the Gaza Strip, a sign that ground operations were likely to escalate imminently. Israeli forces control Gaza City’s eastern...

 Syria will strike several security and military agreements with Israel by the end of the year, a foreign ministry official told AFP on Thursday, in what would be a major milestone after the toppling of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. Also on Thursday, Foreign Minister Asaad...

France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged extremists, anti-terror prosecutors said -- a move that remains divisive a decade after the 2015 attacks in Paris. More than five years after ISIS’s territorial defeat in the region, tens of...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Friday said that his country is engaged in negotiations with Israel over a security agreement aimed at reviving the 1974 accord or adopting a similar framework. In a televised interview with Syrian channel Alikhbariya, he emphasized that Syria “is holding...