The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and his consort, Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad Al Thani, who began a high-profile state visit to the UK the day earlier, marking a significant step in strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between the Gulf state and Britain, would have a...

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron are victims of brutal Israeli violence inflicted on them as they go about their daily affairs, an Israeli rights group said on Tuesday. In a report, B’Tselem gathered testimonies of Palestinian residents, who were attacked by Israeli soldiers in the...

An Israeli airstrike on a car near Syria’s capital Damascus on Tuesday killed Salman Jumaa, a senior Hezbollah figure responsible for liaising with the Syrian army, a Lebanese security source told Reuters. Syria’s state news agency had reported the strike on the airport road but did not...

The Syrian army and allied forces confronted an attack launched by forces affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance on villages in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor province on Tuesday, state news agency (SANA) reported. The SDF is a Kurdish-led alliance in north and east...

The task command of the opposition forces said on Tuesday it has controlled more than 20 towns and villages in the northern and western countryside of Hama, northwest Syria. The Deterrence of Aggression Operation coincides with the continuation of battles and advances towards the city of...

Palestinian movement Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party have agreed to create a committee to jointly run post-war Gaza, negotiators from both sides said Tuesday. Under the plan, which needs Abbas’s approval, the committee would be composed of 10 to 15 non-partisan...

At least 44 civilians, including 12 children and seven women, were killed in northwest Syria from Nov. 26 to Dec. 1, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. OCHA added that over 48,500 people had been displaced, with key infrastructure,...

The foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia are likely to meet in the framework of the Astana process on Dec. 7 and 8 to discuss Syria on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday, according to state media. During a visit to Ankara, Araqchi...

<div style="text-align: left;"><div>Syrian activists circulated a video clip on social media confirming the participation of Iranian elements alongside the Syrian regime forces in their battles against the opposition forces led by Hay'at Tahrir...

A Syrian opposition leader said on Monday that the opposition would not stop fighting until the Syrian government committed to the United Nations process and a political transition. “We are ready to negotiate starting tomorrow,” Hadi al-Bahra said in a televised press conference from...

A massacre was carried out by Syrian regime warplanes on the Wadi Khaled (Talhadiya) displacement camp near Harbanoush, northern Idlib,, the rescue Civil Defence agency said on Monday, The attack claimed the lives of 7 civilians, including 5 children and 2 women, and left 12 others...

A US-backed, Kurdish-led force in Syria is seeking to evacuate Kurds in parts of Aleppo to safe areas, its chief said Monday, after pro-Turkey armed opposition factions seized a town where tens of thousands of Kurds were living. “We are actively coordinating with all relevant...

Iranian-backed militias entered Syria overnight from Iraq and were heading to northern Syria to beef up beleaguered Syrian army forces battling insurgents, according to two Syrian army sources. Dozens of Iran-aligned Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi fighters from Iraq also crossed into Syria through a...

US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Lebanese-American businessman Massad Boulos as his senior advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, the latest family member to be appointed to a key position. “I am proud to announce that Massad Boulos will serve as Senior Advisor to the...

The Palestinian health ministry said the Israeli army killed four people in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as Israel announced a strike that killed four “terrorists.” The ministry updated the death toll from two earlier on Sunday, saying four people were killed “due to the occupation’s...

Syrian opposition forces backed by Turkey have launched an offensive targeting Tal Rifaat, the last Kurdish-controlled enclave in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, and have entered the city center, as Islamist militants of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions expand their control...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the United Arab Emirates on a private visit, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday.

A flare-up of fighting in Syria that has seen the government lose control of Aleppo poses a grave threat to regional and international security, the UN envoy for Syria said Sunday. “I call for urgent and serious political engagement -- among Syrian and international stakeholders -- to spare...

The Opposition forces' task room said its forces had seized the operation headquarters of the Radhwan Regiment, Hezbollah's elite forces, in Saraqib city, east of Idlib. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said that about 700 members of the Iran-funded special operation force were deployed in...

The Syrian opposition factions, through two simultaneous military operations, were able to control the Military Engineering Academy, the Artillery College, and one of the neighborhoods of Aleppo city, in addition to controlling the cities of Al-Safira and Khanaser in the southeastern...