The exchange came as regional tensions remained high and Iran intensified diplomatic efforts to secure a broader halt to hostilities,...
The strikes hit multiple areas, including parts of Beirut, with emergency teams struggling to reach casualties amid heavy congestion. The...
The United States said Saturday it had made contact with Syria's victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, despite previously designating the...US Secretary of State Blinken's comment on "direct contact" with the HTS rebels came despite the US having designated the group as terrorists
While Blinken and other diplomats held talks on Syria in Aqaba, Jordan, Turkey reopened its embassy in Damascus
- Damascus, Syria - G7 leaders will meet virtually Friday to discuss the momentous changes underway in Syria, where the interim government...
Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies
The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said Thursday that 1.1 million people, mostly women and children, had been displaced since the rebels took over
The latest bloodshed came despite growing optimism that negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal might finally succeed, with...The UN and aid agencies have repeatedly warned about the acute humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip, exacerbated by the war that has persisted for over 14 months
Families of the 96 hostages still in Gaza since the Hamas attack that triggered the war, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead, are pressing for their release
- Fifty-four journalists were killed worldwide while carrying out their work or because of their profession in 2024, a third of...
Israeli forces were responsible for the deaths of 16 journalists in Gaza and two in Lebanon
Israel admits that some have been killed in air strikes on military targets
- With Assad's overthrow plunging Syria into the unknown, its new rulers have sought to assure religious minorities that they will...
Assad fled Syria after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, which ended five decades of rule by his clan
Syrians across the country and around the world erupted in celebration, after enduring a stifling era during which anyone suspected of dissent could be thrown into jail or killed
#South #Korean police raided President #Yoon Suk #Yeol's office as part of the investigation into his declaration of #martial law....The deeply unpopular Yoon is already under a travel ban
Yoon survived an impeachment motion in parliament on Saturday
- Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist leader who headed the rebel offensive, had previously announced talks on a transfer of power...
The rebels appointed Mohammad al-Bashir as the transitional head of government to run the country until March 1, a statement said
Assad fled Syria as an Islamist-led opposition alliance swept into the capital Damascus over the weekend, bringing to an end five decades of brutal rule by his clan
- Syria's Islamist rebel leader on Tuesday vowed to pursue former senior government officials responsible for torture and war crimes, a...
Israel continued launched air strikes destroying the former government's military capabilities
Baath party said it will support "a transitional phase in Syria aimed at defending the unity of the country."
- While Berlin and other governments said they were watching the fast-moving developments in the war-ravaged nation, Vienna signaled it would...
World leaders and Syrians abroad watched in disbelief at the weekend as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees had imposed a freeze on decisions for ongoing asylum decisions
- Bashar al-Assad's whereabouts not clear, but his key backer Russia said he had resigned from the presidency and left Syria....
Protests spread like wildfire in neighbouring provinces, with anti-government demonstrators toppling statues of late president Hafez al-Assad in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus
The Israeli army said Saturday that its troops were assisting UN peacekeeping forces in the Syrian-controlled part of the Golan Heights in repelling an attack "by armed individuals
