Several Palestinians were killed and many others injured Saturday as the Israeli army again targeted hundreds of people who were waiting for aid trucks east and west of Gaza City. “A number of dead and wounded arrived at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after being targeted by Israeli...

Syrian physicians in Germany ranked first among foreign doctors, as their number reached 6,120 doctors, most of whom came to the country with the start of the refugee wave in 2015. This number does not include doctors with German citizenship. German media said that more than 60,000 foreign...

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A powerful al-Qaida-linked group that dominates much of rebel-held northwestern Syria released Friday one of its founders after he spent months in jail on suspicion of having links with forces outside the country. The release appears to be a move by the militant group's...

Safiye Bilbasi, the first female Palestinian ambulance driver, who works as a health care professional in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, highlighted the challenges of working in the region, and congratulated her fellow women in the Gaza Strip on International Women’s Day.  "If...

Lebanese group Hezbollah on Friday said that three of its fighters were killed in cross-border clashes with Israeli forces.   The slain fighters are identified as Hadi Mahmoud Hegazy, Fadl Abbas Kawar and Ali Amin Marji, a Hezbollah statement said. It did not provide further...

(THE CONVERSATION) In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border...

For Palestinian women, there are “many layers of violence that is being perpetuated against them” by Israel, according to Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. In an interview with Anadolu for International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8,...

Palestinian mothers in the Gaza Strip are experiencing exceptionally harsh life conditions under the ongoing devastating Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, which has been taking place since Oct. 7. While women across the world celebrate International Women's Day, Palestinian women,...

Palestinian group Hamas confirmed Thursday that negotiations were still ongoing for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. A statement by the group said a Hamas delegation had left the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for consultations with its leadership. “Efforts are still ongoing to stop the Israeli...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed Thursday the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, which has entered its 153rd day, according to the State Department. Speaking over the phone, Blinken thanked Safadi for Jordan's "partnership" in...

South Africa is requesting that the International Court of Justice (ICJ issue new additional provisional measures against Israel in light of reports of widespread starvation. According to the document from South Africa, the country wants the Court to indicate further provisional measures...

Five serving SAS soldiers are under investigation over an incident involving allegations of potential war crimes in Syria several years ago. They have not been arrested but the Defence Serious Crimes Unit is investigating, the BBC has been told. A number of UK Special Forces have been...

Israeli forces subjected Palestinians to ill-treatment in detention centers, a UN report said, according to the daily The Guardian. Palestinian detainees were subjected to beating, dog attacks, and sexual assaults, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said in an internal report,...

The US military announced on Wednesday that it had carried out defensive strikes to neutralize a shipborne ballistic missile and three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) launched towards a US destroyer from areas controlled by Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. The threats to the USS Carney...

The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023 jumped to 30,717, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Wednesday. The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught on Gaza enters its 152nd day. The...

A Palestinian television presenter and journalist was killed Tuesday in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip, pushing the death toll of press members targeted by Israel since Oct. 7 to 133, said officials and state media. Muhammad Salama, who worked for the Palestinian Al Aqsa channel, was...

The US carried out "self-defense strikes" against Houthi targets in Yemen, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday. On March 4 "at 8 p.m. (Sanaa time), CENTCOM forces conducted self-defense strikes against two anti-ship cruise missiles that presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday expressed concern over the "appalling" situation in Gaza, saying children in the northern part of the strip are dying of starvation.  "Severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food...

Syria is poised to come in from the cold at the UN’s nuclear watchdog, with the agency’s boss travelling to Damascus this month. Rafael Grossi revealed he was invited by Syria’s government in order to “re-establish a meaningful, constructive dialogue”. His talks on “remaining issues from...

(Xinhua) -- A passenger bus traveling from Lebanon to Syria overturned in Syria's central province of Hama on Sunday, leaving six people dead and dozens injured, local media reported. The incident occurred near the Maarin Al-Jabal village intersection, south of Hama, said local Sham FM...