The Golan Heights has officially been recognised as part of Syria since the country won independence in 1944. Despite numerous wars, claims and counter-claims, the international community continues to regard the scenic, resource-rich region as part of Syria. Israel, which has occupied...

The UN on Tuesday warned of "multiple rounds of displacement" causing "fatigue" among the people of Gaza amid ongoing Israeli attacks and evacuation orders. "Ongoing hostilities and repeated evacuation orders in Gaza continue to severely constrain aid operations and deepen the suffering that...

Jordan said it had foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs into the country from Syria on Monday, according to the state news agency Petra. Quoting a military source, Petra said several smugglers were injured in clashes with security forces before retreating back into Syrian territory. The amount...

The United States military says ISIL (ISIS) is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of its attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double that of the previous year. The armed group has already claimed 153 attacks in both countries in the first six months of 2024, US Central Command...

The Israeli army killed 81 more Palestinians in attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 38,794 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Wednesday. A ministry statement added that some 89,166 other people have been injured in the assault. “Israeli forces...

Three Syrian children were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanese media. The fatalities occured when a drone hit a farmland in the town of Am Toot, the state-run National News Agency reported. Another drone strike targeting a water reservoir was...

For more than 10 years, Abu Mohammad has been living in a tent with his family in northern Syria, displaced by the long-running civil war. Unable to earn enough to support them, he, like hundreds of others, has decided to travel via Turkey to Niger to work as a mercenary. Abu Mohammad (not...

At least 49 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll to 38,713 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the battered territory said on Tuesday.  A ministry statement added that some 89,166 other people have been injured in the...

Donald Trump won formal nomination Monday as the Republican presidential candidate and picked a right-wing loyalist for running mate, kicking off a triumphalist party convention in the wake of last weekend’s failed assassination attempt. Trump announced 39-year-old  Ohio Senator J.D....

Prominent Syrian pro-regime businessman Baraa Katerji was killed in an Israeli strike near the Lebanese-Syrian border on Monday, three security sources told Reuters. There was no immediate Israeli comment on the strike. Katerji was part of a small circle of businessmen close to...

At least 12 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday amid relentless attacks on the battered enclave, according to medical sources. A fighter jet hit a residential apartment in Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, killing four and injuring several...

The Gaza Government Media Office urged the international community on Monday to take a stance against the US arming of Israel, which has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. This call came amid extensive military escalation by Tel Aviv, which enjoys US...

Four people were wounded, one critically, when a suspected attacker rammed into a bus stop in central Israel on Sunday, Israeli authorities said. The suspect, who police said they believe to be a resident of east Jerusalem, was shot and “neutralized” by security forces at the...

In a country already on edge, the  assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump  has enraged his supporters, paused the Democratic campaign and raised fears of further political violence in the run-up to November’s election. Trump’s Republican allies painted him as a hero...

At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 50 were wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday morning, civil emergency and health officials said. The fatalities resulted from at least four separate Israeli airstrikes on four houses in different areas...

One Syrian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Israeli air strikes against military sites and a residential building in Damascus early on Sunday, the Syrian army said. The army said in a statement that the attacks were launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights....

US President Joe Biden led the condemnation after his election rival Donald Trump was wounded in a shooting incident at a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday that also reportedly killed at least one bystander. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle slammed the violence minutes after the...

Former US President Donald Trump gave his first account of being shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, saying “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.” “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately...

Egypt's president on Saturday warned against using Gaza’s southern Rafah border crossing to tighten the blockade on the besieged Gaza Strip. “Egypt also rejects using the Rafah crossing as a tool to tighten the siege on the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told a Cairo press...

The Gaza government said Saturday that Israel is “spreading fake news” about targeting Hamas leaders to divert attention from its deadly attack on displaced Palestinians’ tents in Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel has practiced “a policy of deception repeatedly since...