Calm returned Tuesday after a two-day flare-up in and around Gaza as a truce between Israel and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad appeared to take hold after initial jitters. The Israeli military reported no rocket fire from the territory during the morning and AFP correspondents in...

The 34-year-old and her newborn girl are being treated in one of the last functioning hospitals in the Syrian city of Idlib. Seventy hospitals have been bombed out of action, and the location of this hospital is being kept secret for fear it will be targeted next. Doctors have...

The old airline tags on the five suitcases by the front door hint at a family holiday. But Muzna is not packing for a fortnight away; she is fleeing Syrian and Russian fighter jets. Bombs exploding in nearby Idlib city have convinced the 32-year-old mother of two that she needs to move...

Russia has carried out airstrikes in northwestern Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone, killing at least four civilians, a Syrian civil defense group announced Saturday.    The Syrian opposition aircraft observatory said the Russian jets targeted rural areas near the western Aleppo...