The conflict over the Sayyida Zainab region and the surrounding areas south of the capital Damascus is persisting between Iranian militias and Syrian security forces and the 4th Armored Division. The dispute erupted over the closure of a main road that leaders to the region, while...

When Imad Alarnab, a Syrian chef, arrived in the UK as a refugee five years ago, he could barely afford to eat. Meals were regularly skipped and a Snickers bar could be eked out over a whole day to help him survive. On Monday, the 43-year-old father of three will be celebrating lockdown rules...

Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air raids early on Sunday killing at least 26 Palestinians, wounding dozens more, and flattening at least two residential buildings. The home of Gaza’s Hamas chief, Yehya al-Sinwar, was also targeted,...

The Russian army has expanded its military operations in the Syrian desert region, according to recent reports. Moscow did not comment or disclose details about its raids in the region, however, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that more than 180 raids were carried out by...

The UAE launched the first phase of a major vaccination drive to support tens of thousands of refugees in Jordan and Iraq. Emirates Red Crescent, the country's leading humanitarian organisation, will prove crucial assistance to efforts to overcome the pandemic in both nations....

Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air raids early on Sunday killing at least 15 Palestinians, wounding dozens more, and flattening at least two residential buildings. The home of Gaza’s Hamas chief, Yehya al-Sinwar, was also targeted,...

Russia's fighter jets on Sunday have raided rebel-held areas in northern Idlib region and the Kabanah hills in coastal Latakia province.   Three Russian warplanes, which took off from the Hmeimim air base, have targeted with high-explosive missiles the Al-Barnas area near Jisr Al-Shughour...

Israeli attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip on Saturday killed two more Palestinians, taking the death toll there to 147. Director of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Muhammad Abu Silmiya, told Anadolu Agency that the number of injured taken to the hospital has reached 22 from 15. The...

Protests in occupied West Bank and around the world as the number of people killed by Israeli bombardment on Gaza reaches 145. Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its sixth consecutive day, with air raids hitting a refugee camp – killing at least 10 Palestinians, including eight...

The abandonment of newborns has increased significantly over the past few days in separate areas of the northern countryside of Aleppo, in the absence of specialized institutions to deal with these cases.   The scene of throwing newborns on the streets and roads is no longer unlikely...

Sawsan Zaher, deputy general director of the Haifa-based rights group Adalah, says she takes issue with the portrayal in some media of recent violence between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Israeli Jews as “inter-communal violence”. She told Al Jazeera much of the violence has been...

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh says the group repeatedly warned Israel not to touch Al-Aqsa Mosque. “We have repeatedly warned the enemy not to touch Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is our qibla, our identity, our belief, and the trigger of our revolutions,” Haniyeh said in a video conference in...

(AP) — An Israeli airstrike on Saturday targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets. Hours later, Israel bombed the home of a top leader of Gaza’s ruling militant Hamas group. The Israeli military said the home...

PARIS (AP) — French riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Saturday in Paris as protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip defied a ban on marching in the French capital. Hundreds of people marched peacefully in other cities in France and elsewhere in Europe....

Syrian regime accounts mourned a senior commander in the Air Force without revealing the cause or the place of his death that came  two weeks after returning back from a mission in Tehran. Brigadier General Engineer Rajab Ali Habib, 57, was the director of Factory 419 in the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief said foreign fighters and mercenaries remain in Libya in violation of last October’s cease-fire agreement and called for their withdrawal and an end to violations of the U.N. arms embargo, saying these are “critical elements” for lasting peace in the north...

(AP) — The hard-line cleric in charge of Iran's judiciary who also took part in a panel involved in the mass execution of thousands of prisoners in 1988 registered Saturday to run for the country's presidency. Ebrahim Raisi has been named as a possible successor to Iran’s 82-year-old Supreme...

The UN says 10,000 Palestinians have been forced out of their homes in the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from Israeli strikes on the enclave reaches 137. Israel continued to bombard the Gaza Strip with air raids and artillery shells on Saturday, killing several children and women at a...

The UN says 10,000 Palestinians have been forced out of their homes in the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from Israeli strikes on the enclave reaches 126. Israel continued to bombard the Gaza Strip with air raids and artillery shells on Saturday, as it stepped up the deployment of troops...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reveals in its report released today that it documented the deaths of 19,192 civilians and the arrest of 34,982 others during the months of Ramadan in the last ten years, noting that the Syrian regime and its Iranian and Russian allies are responsible...