Iraq’s population has risen to 45.4 million, according to preliminary results from a national census, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday. The census, conducted on Nov. 20, was Iraq’s first nationwide survey in more than three decades, marking a crucial...

A child was killed on Saturday when a landmine left over from the war exploded in an olive field in the northern Idlib province, the Syrian Civil Defense said. The boy, 13, was working as an olive picker and his 15-year-old brother was killed and injured when a landmine left over from the...

Israel killed 16 people and injured 27 others on Saturday in a series of airstrikes on several towns in the Baalbek region of eastern Lebanon, state media and the Health Ministry said. At least eight people, including four children, were killed, and nine others were injured when Israeli...

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian group Hamas, said on Saturday that an Israeli female hostage was killed in an attack by Israel's army on northern Gaza Strip. "After re-establishing contact, which had been cut off for weeks, with fighters tasked with protecting enemy...