Egypt warned Wednesday that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip will lead to an expansion of the conflict in the region. The warning came during a meeting in Cairo between Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and a US delegation led by Senator Johnny Ernst. Shoukry reiterated Egypt’s...

An Israeli official said Tuesday that the government is prepared for a significant retaliatory response from the Lebanese group Hezbollah over the assassination of Hamas leader Salah Arouri in Beirut. ''The expected response includes launching long-range missiles at targets in Israel,'' the...

Israeli forces have killed at least 128 Palestinians in air strikes across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Wednesday.  This brings the death toll since 7 October to at least 22,313 with 57,296 wounded and 7,000 missing who are believed to be dead and...

The Hague – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed in a report released today, that it documented at least 2,317 cases of arbitrary arrest/detention in 2023, including of 129 children and 87 women, with 232 cases documented in December. The report stresses that Syrian regime forces...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the BRICS group of major emerging economies is attracting further support from “like-minded countries” sharing its underlying principles as his country assumed the bloc's chairmanship for 2024. In a statement published by the Kremlin, Putin...

DUBAI, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A Syrian military statement said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday that came from the direction of the Golan Heights targeting positions in the outskirts of Damascus caused some material damage, Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported. There was no immediate...

The head of the Palestinian mission to the UK expressed indignation Monday over a report that Israel intends to use former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to mediate with Western countries to persuade them to take in refugees from the Gaza Strip after the war.  "Israeli media has...

The number of Hezbollah fighters killed in the southern part of Lebanon on Monday has reached four, Hezbollah announced on its Telegram account. Hezbollah initially reported the death of three members, later revising it to four fatalities as the day progressed. The announcement did not...

A US military base in northeastern Syria came under missile attack on Monday.  It is not known if there are any casualties in the attack on the base in the town of Al-Shaddad in the Al-Hasakah governate, local sources told Anadolu. The US has made no statement on the incident....

Syrian dissident Riad Turk, who has been compared to Nelson Mandela for spending years in prison for his staunch opposition to the government, died Monday in exile in France, his daughter said. "My father died peacefully and satisfied of what he has accomplished, surrounded by his two...

Israel's move to pull back a portion of its forces from Gaza signifies a potential beginning of reduced-intensity operations in the northern region of the Palestinian territory, a US official said on Monday. But despite this, the official added, ongoing conflict in that area persists....

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced on Monday evening that a Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli detention. According to the Wafa news organisation, Qaddoura Fares, head of the ministry, told the organisation over a phone call that a detainee had died in...

Israeli forces have killed at least 156 Palestinians in air strikes across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday.  This brings the death toll since 7 October to at least 21,978 with 57,697 wounded and 7,000 missing who are believed to be dead and...

Four civilians were injured on Sunday in shelling by Syrian regime forces on the war-torn country's northeastern city of Idlib. The regime and Iranian-backed foreign terrorist groups stationed in the city of Saraqib launched ground attacks targeting Idlib city center, an Anadolu...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants Saturday, two members of Iraqi militia groups told The Associated Press. The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of...

(MEE)- The death toll in the Gaza Strip since 7 October topped more than 21,600 people. Nearly 100,000 people have been displaced to Rafah in recent days, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that around 70 percent of Gaza's homes and half of the enclave's buildings have been damaged or...

The aid group Mercy Corps has warned against "catastrophic starvation" in Gaza on Friday. “The amount of lifesaving goods being allowed inside Gaza is a drop in the ocean and has not yet increased to the level necessary to meet Gazans’ basic and critical needs, even after the...

The Saudi Al Arabiya news website reported that 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed on Thursday night in an attack near Syria’s Damascus international airport, attributing it to Israel. The report added that the attack was carried out as a delegation of commanders...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pushed back against pressure by the US to release Palestinian tax funds withheld by Israel, saying on social media "not a single shekel" will be transferred while he remains in charge.  His statement came after a "difficult and frustrating"...

A group of Palestinian citizens of Israel organised a small protest in Nazareth Thursday calling for an end to the war in Gaza. The demonstration comes amid Israeli police bans and crackdowns on anti-war protests.  Protesters held signs calling for the "war of destruction and...