Syria’s new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country’s broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers ... the Gaza Strip and inflamed ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed 15 months ago that Israel would achieve “total victory” in the war in Gaza — by ...

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his proposal to “clean out” Gaza by removing Palestinians living there to ...

Thousands of people demonstrated at the Rafah border crossing on Friday, an eyewitness told Reuters, in a rare state-sanctioned protest against a proposal earlier this week by US President Donald ...

Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages, how the war in Gaza has devastated the territory and left thousands dead and the flurry of international diplomacy to ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas hands American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel over to the Red Cross in Gaza City.

There are 34 hostages reported killed whose bodies have not been recovered and remain in Gaza. The cross-border attack that Hamas militants launched on Oct. 7, 2023, is regarded as the deadliest ...

The IDF struck Hamas targets in the Salah al-Din area in southern Gaza early Saturday morning, the IDF reported. The intelligence-based strike was against terrorists who were involved in ...

Our principle of impartiality is being challenged.” Aid groups are increasingly seen as protecting the gangs, leading them to ...

(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File) Palestinians celebrate the announcement of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025.

A ceasefire deal currently in place promises the release of the hostages held by Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in Gaza. The first stage of the ceasefire will last six weeks and see ...