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...

At least 39 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll from Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 to 51,305, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. A ministry statement said that 105 more injured people were also transferred...

Two US Congress members landed in Damascus on Friday to meet Syrian officials, the first visit by American lawmakers to the war-ravaged country since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power by an opposition-led group offensive in December. The two are US Representatives Cory Mills of Florida,...