Nearly four in 10 Americans said the US is doing too much to support Israel in the onslaught in the Gaza Strip. An April 25 - 30 survey of 2,260 adults by US News Ipsos revealed that Americans are divided on the US’ Israel policies. The survey revealed that 38% said the US was doing too...

At least 32 more Palestinians were killed and 41 others injured over the last 24 hours, as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory's Health Ministry said on Saturday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) committed three massacres against families in the Gaza...

Forty-five journalists have been killed in Yemen since the fighting erupted between the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and the Houthi group in 2015, a journalists group said Friday.  The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate on World Press Freedom Day said 165 press platforms...

Sadness overshadowed the observance of Good Friday in East Jerusalem, where Christian communities adhering to the Eastern calendar celebrated amid Israeli restrictions. Unlike previous years, when tens of thousands participated in celebrating the occasion, this year’s celebration was very...

The Israeli Cabinet postponed voting on a decision to ban Al Jazeera television in the country until next Sunday, local media reported on Friday. The Israeli Walla website said that the Cabinet did not vote at its meeting on Thursday evening on a decision to close Al Jazeera in Israel....

Cairo has intensified communications with Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas on several “contentious points” as it pushes for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage swap deal, Egyptian media reported Thursday evening. Al-Qahera, a private news channel, quoted an unnamed high-level Egyptian...

The Palestinian death toll has surged to 34,596 as Israel continued its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since last October, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Thursday. A ministry statement added that 77,816 other people had been injured in the onslaught. “At least 28...

Nearly 1,000 Palestinian workers remain forcibly disappeared in Israel, a Palestinian nongovernmental organization said on Wednesday.  In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said around 10,300 workers had entered Israel before Oct. 7, 2023. “Some 3,200 workers were...

The UN children’s agency has warned that a planned Israeli ground invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah would be a catastrophe.  In an article in the British daily, The Guardian, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder said that he saw "new graveyards fill with children" in the blockaded Strip....

NEW YORK (AP) — The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion late Tuesday, with police carrying riot shields swarming the Ivy League campus, bursting into an administration building protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising as donors cut back on aid, the head of the U.N.'s migration agency warned Tuesday, as pressure builds over their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Amy Pope, director general of the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to launch an offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza despite calls for restraint. He said Israel will destroy Hamas’ battalions there “with or without a deal” currently being discussed in talks in Cairo. Israel and Hamas are negotiating a...

For the fourth day in a row, the regime continues to send heavy military reinforcements to the southern Suwayda province, where anti-regime demonstrations have been continuing for months. Local sources reported on Monday that the Syrian regime transferred hundreds of soldiers and dozens of...

The Palestinian Civil Defense service on Tuesday said more than 10,000 people are still missing under the rubble across the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli onslaught against Gaza on Oct. 7. "We estimate that there are over 10,000 missing people under the rubble of hundreds of...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has  repatriated hundreds more of its citizens  linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday. Ali Jahangir, a spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced, said the nearly 700...

Civil defense teams and volunteers have joined hands to extract the bodies of dead Palestinians from under the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip, according to a local official on Monday. “We resume our work [in northern Gaza] after a 100-day hiatus,” Ahmed al-Kahlout,...

The Kurdish-led forces have killed two civilians in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province, according to local sources. The YPG-led fighters on Sunday opened fire at two civilians, Khaled al-Mizal and Dahham al-Mizal, in the Meghlujeh village of Hasakah. The US-backed group opened fire...

At least 22 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, local media reported early Monday. Five Palestinians, including women and children, lost their lives in an Israeli bombing targeting a house belonging to a family in western Gaza City, the official...

At least 66 more Palestinians were killed and 138 others injured over the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory's Health Ministry said on Sunday.  "The Israeli occupation (forces) committed seven massacres against families in the Gaza...

France has charged the ex-wife of a top Daesh official with crimes against humanity on suspicion of enslaving a teenage Yazidi girl in Syria, French media reported. A woman identified as Sonia M., the former wife of the jihadist group’s head of external operations Abdelnasser Benyoucef, was...