Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian group, Hamas, reiterated Friday his group's openness toward any initiative that ends the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that meets the demands of the Palestinian resistance. Haniyeh made the statement in a seminar in Beirut that discussed scenarios of...

The Hague – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Thursday released a report to mark World Refugee Day 2024, in which the group notes that it has documented the arrest by Syrian regime forces of at least 4,714 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to Syria. SNHR...

Israeli military analyst Amos Harel on Friday said the army wants to withdraw from Gaza, but that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has other ideas." In an analytical article in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Harel said Netanyahu “continues to declare that the all-out war against Hamas will...

MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard on Thursday recovered 12 more bodies from a  weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea  off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies, including...