The head of the Palestinian mission to the UK expressed indignation Monday over a report that Israel intends to use former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to mediate with Western countries to persuade them to take in refugees from the Gaza Strip after the war.  "Israeli media has...

A US military base in northeastern Syria came under missile attack on Monday.  It is not known if there are any casualties in the attack on the base in the town of Al-Shaddad in the Al-Hasakah governate, local sources told Anadolu. The US has made no statement on the incident....

Syrian dissident Riad Turk, who has been compared to Nelson Mandela for spending years in prison for his staunch opposition to the government, died Monday in exile in France, his daughter said. "My father died peacefully and satisfied of what he has accomplished, surrounded by his two...

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced on Monday evening that a Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli detention. According to the Wafa news organisation, Qaddoura Fares, head of the ministry, told the organisation over a phone call that a detainee had died in...