The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announced the results of a poll it conducted on a sample of 3,690 people. - 80 to 94 percent feel hopeful, joyful, happy, and relieved about the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. - 57 percent said the political situation was "good or...

Japan will provide the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) with $5.5 million for a project to improve living conditions in Syria, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday. On Aug. 12, Japan and UN-Habitat signed an aid plan focused on rebuilding essential infrastructure in Aleppo and Homs,...

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced on Sunday the killing of Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Gaza. The Israeli army later stated in a statement that the operation took place on Saturday. Earlier on Sunday,...

A Palestinian source told Al Arabiya on Sunday that the spokesperson of Hamas’ armed wing, Abu Obeida, has been killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier. The source said that Israel targeted an apartment in Gaza where Abu Obeid, the spokesperson of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was...