At least 110 Israeli violations against Palestinian press and journalists in Gaza and the occupied West Bank were documented in January, according to a local press group. In a statement late Sunday, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said the Israeli army's violations against Palestinian...

The Palestinian Hamas group on Monday condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements about "buying and owning Gaza," calling them "absurd" and a reflection of "profound ignorance" about Palestine and the region. "We denounce Trump’s remarks about buying and owning Gaza. These statements are...

Since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, the issue of the return of Syrian refugees to their country without the risk of having their protection revoked has been raised in many countries of asylum, as happened in Germany, the Netherlands and France recently. Syrian refugees in...

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is committed to buying Gaza and letting other nations develop parts of it. "I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to New Orleans, Louisiana. He reiterated that the Palestinian enclave is a...

Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday despite a ceasefire agreement in the enclave, a medical source said. The source said the bodies of three people were transferred to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City after Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians...

Israel bombed a military airport in southern Syria on Sunday as its forces continued their incursions in Quneitra. An airstrike targeted Khalkhala military airport in the Suwayda governorate. Videos shared online reportedly from that airstrike show smoke billowing from the airport, which...

The Syrian-Lebanese border witnessed a mutual military escalation on Sunday, as the Syrian army targeted border points with Lebanon in the Homs countryside with artillery shells. The Syrian Ministry of Defense also launched an attack on pro-Iranian militias in the border area at the Matraba...

An Israeli official said Sunday that Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from a key Gaza corridor, part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas that is moving ahead. Israel agreed as part of the truce to remove its forces from the Netzarim corridor, a strip of land that bisects northern Gaza from...

Saudi Arabia affirmed its categorical rejection of remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about displacing Palestinians from their land, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Israeli officials have suggested the establishment of a Palestinian state on Saudi...

Turkey’s spy chief Ibrahim Kalin has held talks in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart to discuss the fight against “terror” groups and the situation in Syria, state news agency Anadolu reported. Kalin met with Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib as well as security chief Ali Akbar...

Israel’s negotiating team set to travel to Qatar on Sunday is not authorized to discuss the second phase of a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, according to Israeli media. The Israeli team includes Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, Israel’s coordinator for the hostages,...

Since taking power in December, the new Syrian administration has prioritized internal security issues and breaking international isolation in the first two months after Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, collapsing the Baath party regime's 61-year rule. Syria's new government initially focused on...

 Zaman al-Wasl launched an initiative to reveal the fate of missing detainees through a search engine that includes more than 13,000 names In a qualitative step aimed at shedding light on the tragedy of missing detainees in the Syrian regime's prisons, Zaman Alwasl  launched an...

Israel claimed Saturday to have struck a weapons storage facility for the Palestinian group Hamas in southern Syria. In a brief statement, the army said the weapons depot was hit in the Deir Ali area in southern Syria, claiming that the weapons were stored to carry out attacks against Israeli...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam formed a new government on Saturday, the first since 2022. President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of former caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and signed a decree with Salam to form the new government....

Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf on Saturday, in the first official visit by an Algerian official to Damascus since the Assad regime’s collapse. Al-Sharaa and his Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shibani received "a high-level delegation from...

The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, confirmed on Friday that 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their country after the fall of the Assad regime on December 8. Llosa said that "270,000 Syrian refugees have returned to...

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met in Damascus on Saturday with a delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), led by its director-general, Fernando Gonzalez. The presidency said the meeting was also attended by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani,...

Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian hometown after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like many others stuck in camps, he found his home uninhabitable. “We were unbelievably happy when the regime fell,” the 40‐year‐old said from his small, concrete‐block...

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, published the names Friday of 183 Palestinian detainees who are slated to be released Saturday in exchange for three Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip. It includes 18 detainees serving life sentences and 54 serving high-term sentences in Israeli jails...