At least 20 Palestinians, including several children, were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, medics said on Thursday. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the bodies of 18 people were retrieved from under the rubble of three homes after Israeli strikes in Gaza City...

Families in Syria are gathering in the capital Damascus to post photos of missing loved ones, hoping to find answers about those who disappeared during the rule of Bashar Assad. The walls of Marjeh Square’s central monument are covered with hundreds of photos, each listing names and...

Syria’s ousted leader Bashar Assad claimed on Monday that he took refuge at a Russian base during the dramatic fall of the decades-long Baath regime earlier this month. Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia on Dec. 8 after anti-regime groups seized control of the...

Director of Damascus International Airport Anis Falouh announced the resumption of work at the airport on Wednesday. Falouh had previously stated that all cadres are working in an integrated manner and with great cooperation to restore the situation to what it was at the airport, indicating...