Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have congratulated Ahmed al-Sharaa on his appointment as Syria’s interim president, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Thursday. Syria’s new authorities announced Wednesday that al-Sharaa, who took power...

Hamas says its top military commander Mohammed Deif has been killed. The Israeli military had said it killed Deif in an air attack in July, but the Palestinian group had not confirmed his death until Thursday. The spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said his death...

Russian ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night, Russian state media reported. Shishkova and Naumov, who were married, won the world...

An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died, a court in Stockholm said Thursday. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden. Videos of the...