The first Bangladeshis airlifted home after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon described the constant fear of living in a city rocked by explosions. Late Monday the first 54 of some 1,800 Bangladeshis wanting to escape the troubled Mediterranean nation flew back to Dhaka on a...

Syrian state media said a car exploded on Monday in the Mazzeh district of Damascus which is home to embassies and security headquarters but it did not specify the cause of the blast. The official SANA news agency reported “a car explosion in one of the neighborhoods” of Mazzeh, where...

Israeli strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed at least 73 people on Saturday, medics and Hamas-affiliated media said. Dozens were also wounded in the strikes that hit several houses in Beit Lahiya, the medics added. The death toll from Israel's ongoing onslaught on...

An Israeli autopsy found that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by a gunshot to the head, the New York Times reported on Friday. Dr Chen Kugel, who oversaw the autopsy, told the newspaper that Sinwar was first wounded in the arm by shrapnel, maybe from a missile or tank shell. The...