Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least eight people, including a 17-year-old who died in an attack on a southern town. Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18, as a ceasefire agreement that had largely halted the fighting for...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged free transit for American commercial and military ships through the Panama and Suez canals, tasking his secretary of state with making progress “immediately.” Trump has for months been calling for the US to take control of the Panama Canal, but...

Syria’s foreign minister on Friday raised his country’s new flag at UN headquarters in New York, hailing the move as a “proclamation of a new existence” after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Asaad al-Shaibani raised the three-starred flag, officially adopted after al-Assad’s December...

Gaza rescue teams and medics said Israeli air strikes killed at least 55 people on Thursday, as the military threatened an even larger offensive if hostages were not freed soon. Israel resumed its military assault in the Gaza Strip on March 18, after the collapse of a two-month ceasefire...