The UN's deputy to the high representative for disarmament affairs, Adedeji Ebo, emphasized concerns Thursday about Syria's lack of full cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). He said Syrian officials' declaration on "chemical warfare agents" is...

The continuous torrential rains in Niger have left some 273 people dead, either by drowning or by the collapse of their houses, according to an official statement on Thursday.  The General Directorate of Civil Protection of the West African nation said the floods affected 710,767 people...

German police shot dead a suspect on Thursday on a street near Israel’s Consulate General in Munich, Bavaria’s interior minister has said.   "The man was carrying a long gun and had fired a number of shots,” Joachim Herrmann told reporters, adding that police forces were...

Six people were wounded when a roadside blast hit a convoy transporting local officials including the governor in Syria’s southern Daraa province on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. “Six people were lightly wounded” when a roadside “explosive device planted by a terrorist group” went...

A Turkish drone strike killed three people in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi Kurdish security sources and a local official said. The sources said a vehicle was set on fire after a drone attack and three passengers were killed near Iraq’s northern province of Sulaymaniyah. The...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeted Egypt’s leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday as he arrived in Ankara to seal their mended ties. The two men shook hands as al-Sisi stepped off his plane in the Turkish capital, according to images released by the Turkish presidency....

Lebanon’s former central bank governor, Riad Salameh, was arrested on Tuesday during a judicial hearing in the capital Beirut, a senior judicial source told Reuters. Salameh has been charged with financial crimes including money-laundering, embezzlement and illicit enrichment. He denies...

The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 40,819 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, now nearing its 12th month. The toll includes 33 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to ministry figures, which also list 94,291 people as...

A war monitor said a senior commander from the security forces in northeast Syria’s semi-autonomous Kurdish-led administration was killed on Tuesday in a blast near a prison in Hasaka province. “A commander in the Kurdish security forces was killed and another person was wounded” in an...

The Israeli army has detained at least 98 Palestinian journalists since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7 last year, including 52 still languishing in Israeli jails, a prisoners' group said Monday.  In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, a non-governmental...

A Saudi maritime shipping company denied on Tuesday US reports that one of its ships was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi group in the Red Sea. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday that the Houthis attacked two crude oil-laden tankers -- the Panama- flagged/owned, Greek-operated MV Blue...

The Health Ministry in Gaza late on Monday announced that nearly 159,000 children received polio vaccination in the central area of the Gaza Strip. "Medical teams were able to vaccinate 158,992 children within two days of the start of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza," the Health...

The UK has suspended 30 arms export licenses to Israel after a review, Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced on Monday.  During a speech in parliament, Lammy said that the decision comes following a review of export licenses for UK arms which found there was a "clear risk" that they...

At least 11 Palestinians were killed in a new Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Sunday, according to a medical source. The attack targeted Safad School in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, the source said, adding that several people were also...

Israel’s main international airport will halt all arrivals and departures on Monday amid a general strike to pressure the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a prisoner swap deal with Palestinians. Ben Gurion Airport will be closed and all takeoffs and landings will...

The US military took part in an Iraqi raid in the country’s western region that killed 15 people as forces targeted suspected militants from the Daesh group, the American military said early Saturday. For years after dislodging the militants from their self-declared caliphate across Iraq...

Israel’s ongoing military operation in the northern West Bank “may continue for several days and possibly longer,” a military spokesperson told Anadolu on Thursday. “The operation will continue as long as necessary to achieve its security goals, meaning that we might witness confrontations...

Tulkarm during an exchange of fire and said its fighters downed an Israeli drone. There were no immediate reports of Israeli casualties. Hospitals besieged The Jenin Governmental Hospital, also known as the Khalil Suleiman Hospital, remains under Israeli siege almost 12 hours after...

The Israeli army on Wednesday claimed to have assassinated a field commander from the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in an airstrike near the Syrian-Lebanon border. The army said in a statement that the Israeli Air Force “earlier today struck and eliminated Faris Qasim, a significant...

At least 41 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll since last Oct. 7, to 40,476, the Health Ministry in the battered territory said on Tuesday. A ministry statement added that some 93,647 others have been injured in the...