Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday it was time to destroy “terrorist” groups that posed a threat to Syria’s survival, namely the Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish fighters.
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian residents said yesterday, and video showed “Revenge”, “Death to Arabs” and other slogans had been spray-painted in Hebrew on the building’s facade.
Israel launched strikes against ports and energy infrastructure in Houthi-held parts of Yemen early yesterday and threatened more attacks against the Iran-aligned militant group, which has launched hundreds of missiles at Israel over the past year.
The United States, joined by Arab mediators, yesterday sought to conclude an agreement between Israel and Hamas to halt the 14-month-old offensive in the Gaza Strip where medics said Israeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians overnight.
The first flight since the ouster of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country's north, AFP journalists saw
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians yesterday, at least 10 of them in one house in Gaza City, medics said as tanks pushed deeper towards the western area of Rafah in the south.
Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 45,028 Palestinians and wounded 106,962 since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said yesterday.
Turkey yesterday denounced an Israeli plan to double the population living in the occupied and annexed Golan Heights as a bid to “expand its borders”.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad oversaw a merciless crackdown on a pro-democracy revolt that morphed into one of the bloodiest wars of the century
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to "cooperate" with any leadership chosen by the people and for any handover process, after rebels said President Bashar al-Assad had fled the country
A senior Saudi royal termed Israel “genocidal” and an “apartheid” state on Saturday, as he called on incoming US President-elect Donald Trump to bring peace to the Middle East.
A new round of negotiations for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal will “most likely” begin in the coming week, a source close to the Hamas delegation told AFP yesterday.
Rebels on a lightning advance through Syria yesterday said they have begun to encircle Damascus as government forces denied they had withdrawn from areas near the capital.
Turkey's foreign minister will meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Doha on Saturday to try to find a solution to the renewed fighting in Syria and avoid chaos on its doorstep
Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published yesterday.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said 29 people were killed by Israeli strikes around a major hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia yesterday.
Amnesty International yesterday accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war last year, saying its new report was a “wake-up call” for the world.
The United Nations said yesterday that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, after more than a year of Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
