Israeli forces raided and closed the office of Al Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Sunday, in what has been described as an "arbitrary military decision." The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli authorities ordered the staff to leave the premises before shutting...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked to meet Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of UN talks in New York next week to normalize ties. Turkey and Syria severed diplomatic relations in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian war, but Erdogan has sought...

The Israeli army on Saturday conducted a series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa region, according to an Anadolu correspondent. Air raid sirens have also been activated in Kiryat Shmona and several settlements in the Upper Galilee, the Israeli Army Radio said, adding that 25...

Five employees of the Health Ministry in Gaza were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the ministry’s storage facilities in the Musbah area of Rafah, southern Gaza, the ministry said on Saturday. In a statement, the ministry said that ambulances have been unable to reach the site to recover the...

Israeli army attacks killed 119 more Palestinians and injured 209 others in the Gaza Strip over the last 72 hours, bringing the death toll to 41,391 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday. A ministry statement added that a total of 95,760 people have...

Hezbollah’s top military commander Ahmed Wahbi as well as 14 of its fighters were killed in an Israeli raid targeting Beirut's southern suburb on Friday, the Lebanese group said. On Friday, an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburb killed at least 14 people and injured 66 others, with...

Israeli forces  killed at least 27 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of the  Gaza  Strip on Friday, medics said, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt. The unrelenting fighting between the Israelis and Hamas...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed decrees imposing sanctions on 42 companies and six individuals from Iran, China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Russia. The documents were only made available on the presidential website on Friday morning, although they went into effect...

At least 15 Palestinians, including several women and children, were killed early Friday in Israeli airstrikes targeting the central and northern Gaza Strip. Medical sources told Anadolu that nine Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in Israeli shelling of a house in the...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Thursday that it carried out 17 attacks on Israeli soldiers, military vehicles and settlements in northern Israel, marking its largest operation in around 100 days. The attacks came amid a new wave of escalation between Israel and Hezbollah following a series of...

Bulgaria will investigate a company linked to the sale of pagers to Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah  that exploded this week in a coordinated attack , the state security agency said on Thursday. Bulgaria’s state security agency, DANS, said in a statement that it is working...

Lebanese group Hezbollah said early Thursday that it had attacked an Israeli military site near the Lebanese-Israeli border, injuring at least eight Israelis. In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had targeted a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Marj military site....

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday called for restraint in the Middle East after a second deadly wave of unprecedented device explosions at Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.   “I warn all sides against further escalation,” Baerbock wrote on social media platform...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said 20 of its members were killed, with a source close to the group telling AFP on Thursday that they had died in walkie-talkie blasts blamed on Israel the day before. The group sent separate death notices for each member from Wednesday evening to Thursday morning,...

Israeli security services said on Thursday they had arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of involvement in an Iranian-backed assassination plot targeting prominent people including the prime minister. A statement said the person was a businessman with connections in Turkey who had...

Israeli airstrikes on several areas of the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours have killed at least 34 Palestinians, including nine children, an official said Thursday. In a statement, Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal provided information on the ongoing Israeli strikes. Since Oct. 7,...

Israeli jets and artillery hit multiple targets in southern Lebanon overnight, Israel’s military said on Thursday, amid spiraling tensions  following the mass attack on Hezbollah communications devices this week. The military said air strikes hit Hezbollah targets in Chihine, Tayibe,...

At least two people were killed and 13 others injured on Wednesday in a tribal fight between ​​in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, which is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The infighting erupted as a result...

A US official told Al Arabiya English that the US military and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) killed four ISIS operatives in a joint raid in Syria on Sunday. “ISIS remains a threat to the region, allies, as well as our homeland,” the official said. The official added that the operation...

An Israeli soldier was critically injured in clashes in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday. A military statement said the soldier, from the Givati Brigade's Reconnaissance Unit, was in critical condition after he was wounded last night. The soldier was hospitalized, the...