Israel launched strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus and a military site near the western city of Homs on Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured the region pushing for a halt to fighting. The Israeli strikes targeted the central Damascus...

Hezbollah has confirmed the cleric tipped to become the group's next leader was killed in an Israeli air strike nearly three weeks ago. The Israeli military said on Tuesday night that it killed Hashem Safieddine in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. On Wednesday, Hezbollah put out a...

An UNRWA employee was killed in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, the latest aid worker death in the war-torn territory. “I can confirm that an UNRWA car was hit. One UNRWA colleague was killed,” UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma told AFP....

Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 20 people on Wednesday as Israeli forces intensified a siege of northern parts of the Palestinian enclave, surrounding hospitals and refugee shelters, and ordering residents to head south, medics and residents said. The Gaza health ministry and the World...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed on Wednesday the situation in Gaza and Lebanon as well as means to end the military conflict in both countries, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. In addition to reviewing bilateral ties and means...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Arab counterparts in London on Friday to discuss the Gaza and Lebanon wars, the State Department said. Blinken, who is currently in Saudi Arabia after visiting Israel, will travel to the British capital following talks in Qatar, State...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday “now is the time” to end the conflict in Gaza, and urged Israel to avoid further escalation with Iran. Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and has pledged to hit back against Iran’s October 1 missile...

A senior member of Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza, Mousa Abu Marzouk has arrived in Moscow on a planned visit, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing a diplomatic source. Hamas politburo member, Abu Marzouk, intends to hold a series of...

Israel’s army confirmed Tuesday it “eliminated” Hezbollah’s Hashem Safieddine, apparent successor of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb three weeks ago. “It can now be confirmed that in an attack approximately three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, the head...

Iran’s neighbors have pledged they will not allow the use of their “soil or airspace” for any attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday, as Israel weighs a retaliation for the Islamic republic’s missile strike. “All our neighbors have assured us that they won’t allow their...

The health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that at least 42,718 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll includes 115 deaths in the previous 48 hours, according to the ministry, which said 100,282 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since...

At least 13 people were killed and 57 wounded in an Israeli airstrike late Monday near a hospital in Lebanon’s capital. The Lebanese Health Ministry said the airstrike targeted the vicinity of Rafik Hariri University Hospital located on the outskirts of southern Beirut, with a child among the...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday for meetings with Israeli leaders, the first stop of a wider Middle East tour to launch another push for an elusive ceasefire. The top US diplomat’s latest trip - his 11th to the region since Palestinian Hamas militants...

The first Bangladeshis airlifted home after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon described the constant fear of living in a city rocked by explosions. Late Monday the first 54 of some 1,800 Bangladeshis wanting to escape the troubled Mediterranean nation flew back to Dhaka on a...

The Israeli army said Monday that the latest commander responsible for funding the Lebanese Hezbollah group was “eliminated” in Syria. The man, whose name was not released, headed the Iran-backed Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 that is “responsible for the transfers and the amount of funds” to the...

The United States remains “deeply concerned” about the leak of a pair of highly classified intelligence documents describing Israel’s preparations for a retaliatory strike on Iran, the White House said on Monday. There is no indication that additional documents have been compromised and US...

Hundreds of far-right Israeli settlers gathered at a conference near the border with the Gaza Strip to press for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave. The event, held in an area designated by the Israeli army as a closed military zone near the settlement of Be’eri at...

More than 600 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip over two weeks ago, the Civil Defense Service said on Monday. “The bodies of dozens of dead people are still under the rubble and on the streets as civil defense teams can’t...

Syrian state media said a car exploded on Monday in the Mazzeh district of Damascus which is home to embassies and security headquarters but it did not specify the cause of the blast. The official SANA news agency reported “a car explosion in one of the neighborhoods” of Mazzeh, where an...

At least 33 people were killed in intensified Israeli attacks in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, according to medical sources. Artillery shelling targeted a school sheltering displaced civilians near Birket Abu Rashid in Jabalia, killing seven people and injuring dozens, a medical source...