Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked to meet Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of UN talks in New York next week to normalize ties. Turkey and Syria severed diplomatic relations in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian war, but Erdogan has sought...

Israeli forces  killed at least 27 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of the  Gaza  Strip on Friday, medics said, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt. The unrelenting fighting between the Israelis and Hamas...

Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to replace his defense minister with a hawkish rival. Netanyahu’s office said he laid out the war aim...

An announcement on the date of ending the mission of the US-led international coalition in Iraq will be made soon, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Tuesday. "Today, Iraq in 2024 is not the same as Iraq of 2014, we have defeated Daesh/ISIS with our sacrifices and the Iraqi...