Turkey is holding technical-level talks with Israel to ease tensions over Syria but is not moving toward normalizing ties, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday. Turkey is a key backer of the opposition-led coalition in Syria that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December after almost 14...

Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials told Reuters. The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued...

Damascus witnessed a popular demonstration on Monday, attended by hundreds of citizens, expressing their support for the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their rejection of the ongoing Israeli attacks on Syria. The state-run news agency (SANA) reported on its X...

Gaza’s civil defense agency reported at least 12 people killed Monday in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory, where the war triggered by Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel entered its 19th month. The latest strikes, part of renewed military operations after a two-month truce,...