Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar Al Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said ahead of a visit to the region. Between December 8 and January 16, some 195,200 Syrians returned home, according to figures published by Grandi on...

A ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement took effect at 11.15 a.m. local time (0915GMT) on Sunday after a few hours delay. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed that the first phase of the ceasefire came into force Sunday at 0915 GMT. The ceasefire was originally...

Scores of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are set to enter the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a ceasefire deal came into force, a Palestinian official said. “Scores of aid trucks have arrived from the Egyptian side to the Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing,” the official told Anadolu....

A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning at 0630 GMT, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal. The exact time of the ceasefire’s start had been unclear, though Israel had said no Palestinian...