Syrian air defenses on Thursday intercepted “hostile” targets over the countryside west of the capital Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported.

Nearly 100 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll since last Oct. 7 to 41,788, the Health Ministry in the war-torn territory said on Thursday. A ministry statement added that some 96,794...

A  US  resident from Dearborn, Michigan, has been killed in Lebanon, the American government said on Wednesday, with the man’s friend and neighbors saying he died in an Israeli airstrike. “We are deeply saddened by the death of Kamel Ahmad Jawad and our hearts go out to his...

At least five were killed and 11 wounded in an Israeli strike on central Beirut’s Bachoura neighborhood early on Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement. An Israeli strike hit within Beirut’s city limits, not far from downtown, a security source earlier told Reuters....