A United States diplomatic facility in Baghdad came under attack late on Tuesday but there are no reports of casualties and a damage assessment is underway, a US embassy spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. Security sources told Reuters two rockets had fallen at around 11 p.m. on...

France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Wednesday that 364 repatriated children of French parents suspected of joining ISIS in Syria and Iraq a decade ago were doing well. “There are 364 children in 59 departments (areas in France), who are followed by judges for children, and who...

The Israeli military said Wednesday that an army helicopter crashed in the south of war-ravaged Gaza overnight, killing two soldiers and injuring seven. “An initial inquiry... indicates that the crash was not caused by enemy fire... Two IDF (Israeli) soldiers were killed as a result of the...

Israel has intensified airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, inflicting civilian casualties on at least three occasions, an independent UN commission said Tuesday. Since the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes in different...

Saudi Arabia has formally reopened its embassy in Syria’s capital, Damascus, marking a significant step in last year’s reconciliation between both countries after over a decade of diplomatic isolation. At a reception held at Damascus’s Four Seasons Hotel on Monday, Saudi Chargé d’Affaires,...

Iran on Monday accused its regional arch-foe Israel of carrying out what it called a “criminal” attack in central Syria, where state media said strikes killed at least 14 people. “We strongly condemn this criminal attack by the Zionist regime on Syrian soil,” foreign ministry...

Syrian state media said Monday that overnight Israeli strikes killed 16 people in central Hama province, with a war monitor reporting a higher death toll in raids on sensitive military sites. The Israeli military, which has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the...

Former war cabinet member Benny Gantz on Sunday said Israel should shift its focus toward Hezbollah and the Lebanese border, warning that “we are late on this.” Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been trading near-daily cross-border fire, with the Lebanese militant group saying it is...

At least five fighters from the Turkish-backed "Syrian National Army" (SNA) were killed on Saturday night after being ambushed by Kurdish forces near the northern Syrian city of Afrin.  Fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), launched an operation targeting...

The Israeli army has killed 61 more Palestinians in attacks on the Gaza Strip, raising the overall death toll to 40,939 since October 7, 2023, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave on Saturday. The ministry also reported that approximately 94,616 people have been injured in the...

The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation into her death on Saturday, accusing the Israeli military of killing her “violently.” Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was “shot in the...

Palestinian children in Gaza are now entering their second school year with no chance of going to school. This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in...

A Syrian opposition armed group operating in northern Syria has ceased cooperation with the Turkish-backed 'Syrian Interim Government' following a meeting with the government's prime minister, Abdul Rahman Mustafa. The Levant Front, a prominent armed group which is part of the...

Iran has sent a couple of hundred ballistic missiles to Russia, according to media reports on Friday, which cited diplomats as saying that they believe Tehran will keep up the flow of weapons to Moscow in a bid to help its war in Ukraine. An unnamed US official told the Wall Street Journal...

An unknown drone targeted a truck on Thursday evening near a military headquarters for Iranian militias near the Iraqi border close to the city of Albukamal in eastern Syria. Media activist Jassim Al-Alawi told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the targeting killed the driver of the truck loaded with...

A recent poll has found that 48% of Israelis would support withdrawing from the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border in exchange for a hostages swap deal with Hamas.  Conducted by the Lazar Institute and reported by Maariv newspaper, the survey polled 506 Israelis, with a...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Friday announced that its teams vaccinated more than 160,000 children on Thursday, the first day of the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign in southern Gaza. “Thousands of families went to health facilities to receive vaccines from...

Amnesty International called Thursday for a thorough investigation into alleged war crimes by the Israeli military in Gaza related to the "unlawful" destruction of civilian infrastructure and agricultural land along the eastern border of the territory. In a report, it outlined the Israeli...

The Gaza battle appears to be nearing its end with signs of agreements emerging, Hamas and Israel being closer in distance and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah announcing that there will be no retaliatory war for the deaths of around 500 Hezbollah leaders. This is in addition to the remains of...

Israeli forces have withdrawn from Jenin and its camp after a 10-day “invasion”, the Palestine news agency said on Friday. Twenty-one people were killed in the city and camp, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement. A Reuters witness said the Israeli forces left behind...