Global investors are about to get a taste of what Donald Trump's return to the White House might mean for markets, global trade and international relations.
January 17, 2025
A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls
January 19, 2025
Israel has freed 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees
January 19, 2025
Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war
January 19, 2025
‘Everybody is crying’: Israelis rejoice as 3 hostages returned after more than 470 days in Gaza
January 19, 2025
Thousands of Israelis gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, some cheering and some in tears, as a giant television screen broadcast
January 19, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians burst into the streets across Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Sunday, some in celebration,
January 19, 2025
U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed a ceasefire in Gaza on Sunday and said hundreds of trucks were entering the seaside enclave to help its civilians.
January 19, 2025
Hamas' armed wing said the group would abide by a ceasefire agreement that came into force in Gaza on Sunday but that any possible Israeli violations would endanger the process and put the
January 19, 2025
Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.
January 19, 2025
Negotiators are zeroing in on a potential deal to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria's
January 19, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday that if Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States
January 19, 2025
Under the Gaza ceasefire deal that came into force on Sunday, Israel has agreed to release Palestinians held in Israeli jails in return for freeing hostages taken by the militant
January 17, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas released three Israeli female hostages on Sunday as part of the first phase of its ceasefire deal with Israel.
January 19, 2025
Englishman Tyrrell Hatton has held off Daniel Hillier of New Zealand to win the Dubai Desert Classic by a stroke
January 19, 2025
Two far-right Israeli ministers publicly opposed a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Sunday in another sign of widening cracks in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
January 19, 2025
Syria's new defence minister said on Sunday it would not be right for U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country's northeast to retain their own bloc within
January 19, 2025
Israel’s far-right national security minister resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet to express his disapproval of the Gaza ceasefire deal
January 19, 2025
About 200 aid delivery trucks, including 20 carrying fuel, began arriving on Sunday at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing ahead of entry into the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian
January 19, 2025
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is set to begin on Sunday, pausing the devastating 15-month war between Israel and the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip
January 18, 2025
Here are the main elements of a Gaza ceasefire deal that went into effect on Sunday after 15 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and inflamed the Middle
January 15, 2025
Preparations have been made for the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
January 18, 2025
Israel approved a ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday that involves releasing hostages in the Gaza
January 17, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military not to begin the ceasefire in Gaza, scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m.
January 19, 2025
Two high-profile Iranian judges killed in ‘planned assassination’
January 18, 2025
Qatar says the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) on Sunday
January 18, 2025
Trump says mass deportations will happen quickly, stresses importance of Israel-Hamas deal in wide-ranging NBC News interview
January 18, 2025
Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on Saturday, Iran's judiciary said.
January 18, 2025
Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988
January 18, 2025
Iran unveiled an underground naval missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Saturday, state TV said, two days before the start of Donald Trump's second term as president.
January 18, 2025Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal to begin Sunday, bringing rare halt to months of fighting
January 18, 2025
Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials
January 18, 2025
Lebanon's new president Joseph Aoun stressed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday the urgency of an Israeli military withdrawal as stipulated by a
January 18, 2025
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem congratulated Palestinians on Saturday over the Gaza ceasefire deal, saying in a speech that it proved the "persistence
January 18, 2025
Israel’s Cabinet has approved a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages that will pause the 15-month war with Hamas for six weeks
January 17, 2025
U.S. officials will visit Cyprus soon to discuss upgrading military infrastructure, Cyprus' president said on Saturday, days after a landmark decision by Washington to bolster
January 18, 2025Israel’s approval of the Gaza deal unmasks deep schisms that could threaten the ceasefire and Netanyahu’s political future
January 18, 2025The Israeli government ratified the Gaza ceasefire and hostage return deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said, after a cabinet meeting that lasted more than six
January 17, 2025
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam said on Friday the formation of a new government would not be delayed, indicating a very positive atmosphere in discussions over its
January 17, 2025
The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on a Yemen-based financial institution that Washington accused of financially supporting the Houthis, as President Joe Biden's
January 17, 2025
Attacks on aid convoys in the Gaza Strip by looters and armed gangs could decline as humanitarian relief floods the area after the
January 17, 2025
A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday signed a 20-year strategic partnership treaty that includes closer defence cooperation,
January 17, 2025
Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea.
January 17, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday named former Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag as the new U.N. Middle East envoy, a U.N. spokesperson said.
January 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025
The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination
January 18, 2025
Oil prices settled lower on Friday but notched their fourth straight weekly gain, as the latest U.S. sanctions on Russian energy trade added to worries about
January 17, 2025
The Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal on Friday, paving the way for the return of the first hostages from Gaza as
January 17, 2025
A team of doctors in Israel is preparing for the return of the hostages from Gaza with the expectation that many are likely to have severe, life-threatening complications from spending more than a year in captivity
January 17, 2025
Israel’s Cabinet has approved the Gaza ceasefire deal that would pause the fighting and release dozens of hostages held by Hamas and other militants in the Gaza Strip, along with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
January 17, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron has met with Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun and vowed to support the small nation as it attempts to recover from the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war and an economic crisis
January 17, 2025
Former CIA analyst pleads guilty to leaking classified documents on Israel’s plans to attack Iran
January 17, 2025
As one of the oldest hostages taken by Hamas, Oded Lifshitz would be among the first to be released under a ceasefire deal
January 17, 2025
A former CIA analyst has pleaded guilty to leaking information on a planned Israeli attack on Iran
January 17, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement is expected to take effect as soon as Sunday
January 17, 2025
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan held discussions on Friday with Syrian authorities on how the war crimes tribunal could help in their efforts to prosecute
January 17, 2025
The presidents of Russia and Iran have signed a broad cooperation pact to deepen their partnership amid stinging Western sanctions
January 17, 2025
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has made an unannounced visit to Damascus, meeting with the leader of Syria’s de facto government
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart, President Masoud Pezeshkian, to sign a broad partnership pact
January 17, 2025
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is bidding farewell to the forces and personnel he's led through a tumultuous term
January 17, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel on Friday to accelerate its troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon, as a deadline nears for the pullout under the terms of a
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by
January 17, 2025
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war
January 16, 2025
Russia’s growing ties with Iran have shaped the war in Ukraine. A new treaty raises the stakes for Trump’s administration
January 17, 2025
The Israeli security cabinet has recommended approving the Gaza ceasefire and hostage return deal, ahead of a full cabinet meeting expected later on Friday, a statement from the
January 17, 2025
The European Union is in talks to revive a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah following the announcement of the ceasefire deal between
January 17, 2025
Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a Gaza ceasefire deal
January 17, 2025
Reinsurers, including Swiss Re, have become more willing to provide cover for the Middle East in the industry's January policy renewal season, removing a clause
January 17, 2025
Elon Musk played no role in negotiations between Italy and Iran for the release of a journalist who was held in a Tehran prison, Italy's foreign minister said on Friday, dismissing a
January 17, 2025
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday he believed their two countries could finalise agreements on the construction of a nuclear
January 17, 2025
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking credit for the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. It is expected to take effect one day before Biden leaves office.
January 16, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is expected to begin as originally scheduled on Sunday, the Israeli prime minister's office said, after hours of uncertainty over the
January 17, 2025
Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, is in talks with Saudi Arabia over potential joint investments in the metal, the company's chairman told Reuters
January 17, 2025
North Africa's largest economy and second-largest natural gas producer has stepped up the production and export of several highly energy-intensive
January 17, 2025
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January 17, 2025The final disputes holding up a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have been resolved, Axios reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed U.S. official. Axios did not provide details.
January 16, 2025
News that Israel and Hamas have reached a hostage release deal after 15 months of war in Gaza is bittersweet for Ruth Strum --
January 16, 2025
Egypt’s chief diplomat is calling on Israel and Hamas to implement a Gaza ceasefire plan “without any delay.”
January 16, 2025
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has defended his decision to bring war crimes allegations against Israel's prime minister, saying Israel had
January 17, 2025
Authorities in Turkey arrested a mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) early on Friday, after prosecutors accused him of rigging public tenders, an
January 17, 2025Global diesel prices and refining margins spiked following the latest round of U.S. sanctions on Russia's oil trade on
January 17, 2025
Outgoing Democratic U.S.
January 17, 2025
Germany's Lufthansa Group is set to resume flights to and from Tel Aviv in Israel from Feb. 1 and Wizz Air restarted its London to Tel Aviv route on Thursday, the
January 16, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached
January 16, 2025
A home in Sydney previously owned by a senior Jewish community leader was vandalised on Friday morning and two cars were set on fire, with one spray painted with an antisemitic slur
January 17, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached
January 16, 2025
The U.S.
January 16, 2025
Egypt's current account deficit more than doubled to $5.9 billion in July-September 2024, compared with $2.8 billion in the year-ago quarter, as Suez Canal revenues remain depressed,
January 16, 2025
Negotiators reached a phased ceasefire deal on Wednesday to
January 15, 2025
The Gaza Strip ceasefire should begin on Sunday as planned, despite the need for negotiators to tie up a "loose
January 16, 2025
The leader of Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday that the Iran-aligned group would monitor the implementation of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the war in Gaza
January 16, 2025
An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern Syria if the U.S.-allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
January 16, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian may discuss the situation in Syria, the Middle East, and Iran's nuclear programme on Friday, during
January 16, 2025
Police closed off the Adidas Arena ahead of a Euroleague basketball game between Paris and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday because of a suspicious package
January 16, 2025
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Sudan's leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war
January 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025
Israel's hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday he would resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if it
January 16, 2025
Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up of criticism against Israel's military campaign in Gaza,
January 16, 2025
The leader of Yemen's Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said the Iran-aligned group will monitor the implementation of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and will continue its attacks
January 16, 2025
Oil prices settled lower on Thursday with Yemen's Houthi militia expected to halt attacks on ships in the Red Sea, and investors weighing strong U.S. retail
January 16, 2025
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on Israel's war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached
January 16, 2025
The World Health Organization called for the international community to step up and fund a scaled-up aid response in Gaza after Israel and Hamas
January 16, 2025
Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or
January 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025
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May 03, 2017Mediators say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting in Gaza and to begin releasing the hostages held there
January 15, 2025
Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
January 16, 2025
Maritime security officials said on Thursday they were expecting Yemen's Houthi militia to announce a halt in attacks on ships in the Red Sea, after a ceasefire deal in the war in
January 16, 2025
Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Thursday,
January 16, 2025
A last-minute glitch surfaced on Thursday in the details of the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal and U.S. envoys are working to resolve it, a U.S. official said.
January 16, 2025
France plans to hold a conference on Syria in Paris on Feb. 13, the French presidency said in a statement on Thursday.
January 16, 2025
A former top official in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh protested on the eve of his trial before an Azerbaijani military court on Friday that he had not been
January 16, 2025Cyprus on Thursday hailed U.S.
January 16, 2025Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza
January 16, 2025
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that will pause fighting in Gaza. President Joe Biden said the deal will happen in phases and described measures to ensure the release of hostages.
January 15, 2025
How the ‘Trump factor’ now looms over international affairs
January 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established buffer zone with Israel.
January 16, 2025
The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facing an uncertain future
January 16, 2025
A ceasefire in the war in Gaza should be positive for Israel's under-pressure credit rating, Fitch's top sovereign rating analyst said on Thursday.
January 16, 2025
Turkey's state-run news agency says at least 30 people have died in Istanbul in the past three days after drinking bootleg alcohol
January 16, 2025Israel’s divided education system – based on nationality and religious observance – serves as a test case for exploring controversial education policies in America.
January 16, 2025
A ceasefire agreement in Gaza has been reached between Israel and Hamas after more than 15 months of war
January 15, 2025
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Thursday arrived at Damascus' International Airport, footage run by Al Jazeera Live showed.
January 16, 2025
A strategic cooperation agreement that Russia and Iran are poised to sign will not include a mutual defence clause like pacts that Moscow has signed with Pyongyang and Minsk, the
January 16, 2025
Russia welcomes any settlement that leads to security in Gaza after a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas was announced, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
January 16, 2025
Three-phased deal will start with the release of 33 hostages held by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. If fully implemented, the agreement will see the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Palestinian enclave.
January 16, 2025
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he was cutting his visit to Europe short on Wednesday so that he could take part in security cabinet and government votes on a Gaza
January 15, 2025
Significant progress was made on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal once the administrations of Joe Biden and Donald Trump began
January 16, 2025
The ceasefire in Gaza represents a "great victory" for the Palestinian resistance, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday, warning against any possible breach by Israel.
January 16, 2025
Negotiators reached a phased ceasefire deal on Wednesday in the war in Gaza between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Here is some reaction to the deal. U.S.
January 15, 2025
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January 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the ceasefire agreement with Hamas is still not complete and the final details are being worked out
January 15, 2025
President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are both claiming credit for Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire deal in Gaza after the White House brought Trump’s Middle East envoy into negotiations that have dragged on for months
January 15, 2025
The U.S.
January 15, 2025
A long-sought Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal emerged at the end of an intense 96 hours of negotiations in Doha brokered by U.S., Egyptian and Qatari diplomats
January 15, 2025
Families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza gathered on Wednesday in the Tel Aviv square where they have held rallies for more than a year, as news trickled out of
January 15, 2025
Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, warned on Wednesday that
January 15, 2025
Mediators say Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause the devastating 15-month war in the Gaza Strip, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter enemies
January 15, 2025
The United Nations says it’s ready to ramp up the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza after a ceasefire agreement and urged the removal of major security and political obstacles so it can reach all those in need
January 16, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday the priority now "must be to ease the tremendous suffering" caused by the war in Gaza
January 15, 2025
Hamas and Israel reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that mediators said would take effect on Sunday and include
January 14, 2025
Palestinians burst into celebration across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday at news of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with some shedding years of joy and
January 15, 2025
How the Biden and Trump teams worked together to get the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal done
January 15, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday described a ceasefire deal ending the war in Gaza as "long overdue" and said focus should turn to humanitarian aid and securing a
January 15, 2025
U.S.
January 15, 2025
Negotiators reached a phased deal on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the U.S. and Qatar said, after 15 months of bloodshed that has killed tens of
January 15, 2025
Two Americans held in Gaza are on the list of hostages to be released in first six-week phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that was announced Wednesday, a source familiar with the
January 15, 2025
The ceasefire announced between Israel and Hamas gives hope to families of hostages and war-weary Palestinians — but their nightmare is far from over
January 15, 2025
Three Palestinians were killed and scores more injured by an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
January 15, 2025
Turkey is ready to provide support to the new Syrian administration for the management of Islamic State camps in the country, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.
January 15, 2025
A small minority of Israeli hostage families don’t want a Gaza deal. Here’s why
January 15, 2025
President Joe Biden is set to deliver a farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office
January 15, 2025
Israel's inflation eased more than expected in December to end 2024 at a rate of 3.2% versus 3.0% in 2023, according to data on Wednesday from the Central Bureau of Statistics
January 15, 2025
A Gaza deal between Israel and Hamas, still not officially announced yet on Wednesday, outlines a six-week initial ceasefire phase and includes the gradual withdrawal of Israeli
January 15, 2025
Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday
January 15, 2025
Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would use the Gaza ceasefire deal as momentum to expand the Abraham Accords, U.S.-backed agreements struck during the president-elect's first
January 15, 2025
Qatar's Foreign Ministry will hold a news conference on Wednesday in Doha where the country has been hosting talks towards a Gaza ceasefire deal, a senior Qatari official said.
January 15, 2025
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 25 prisoners of war each after negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates, according to statements from both sides.
January 15, 2025
U.N.
January 15, 2025
Henk Lategan and Yazeed Al-Rajhi will duel in the Saudi sand for their first Dakar Rally title after swapping the lead for a second straight day
January 15, 2025
The ceasefire deal that is close to being agreed in Gaza has left families of the 98 hostages still held in the enclave facing a mix of hope, apprehension, and, in
January 14, 2025
The Libyan state agency mandated to oversee government performance has called for suspension of public sector appointments and contracts due to an excessive wage bill.
January 15, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied on Wednesday that Hamas had agreed to the Gaza ceasefire proposal from Qatari mediators, after an Israeli official said
January 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied on Wednesday that Hamas had agreed to the Gaza ceasefire proposal from Qatari mediators, after an Israeli official said
January 15, 2025
Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian interior
January 15, 2025
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a gift of a scarf to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni and serenaded her as she celebrated her 48th birthday on Wednesday.
January 15, 2025
The Palestinian Authority must be the sole governing power in Gaza after the war, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said on Wednesday, as expectations grew that a deal
January 15, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan warned on Wednesday that Turkey had the power and ability to "crush" all terrorists in Syria, including Islamic State and Kurdish militants, while urging all
January 15, 2025
A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the
January 15, 2025Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment program in an act of sabotage
January 15, 2025
The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism
January 15, 2025
The CEO of fast-growing aircraft lessor AviLease on Wednesday said he expects Boeing and Airbus to get their supply issues under control in the next four years and said he will be
January 15, 2025Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner enjoyed largely unfettered access to Trump in his first term and were influential on a vast
January 15, 2025
Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed on Wednesday a deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection to
January 15, 2025
Qatari mediators have sent Israel and Hamas a draft proposal for an agreement to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners as a first step towards
January 13, 2025
Iran never plotted to kill Republican U.S.
January 15, 2025
Iran's navy received its first signals intelligence ship on Wednesday, semi-official Tasnim news organisation reported, a few days after the country's army took delivery of 1,000 new
January 15, 2025Blinken offers most detailed picture to date of post-war Gaza plans
January 14, 2025
Top advisers to U.S.
January 15, 2025
The U.N.
January 14, 2025Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on homes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 17 people
January 14, 2025
If the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal goes according to the current draft, then fighting will stop in Gaza for 42 days, and dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed
January 14, 2025
Officials say Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages
January 14, 2025
U.S.
January 14, 2025
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was busy preparing to expand humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip under a potential ceasefire but uncertainty
January 14, 2025
At least six Palestinians were killed and several were injured on Tuesday in an Israeli strike on Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a statement by the Palestinian health ministry
January 14, 2025
U.S. prosecutors argued on Tuesday that an engineer could flee to Iran if he was granted bail while awaiting trial on charges related to a deadly drone attack on a
January 14, 2025
Talks held in Geneva among Iran, Britain, France and Germany aimed to find a way to resume nuclear talks, Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday in an interview with
January 14, 2025
Nearly half of people across the globe harbor antisemitic beliefs, ADL says
January 14, 2025
Nawaf Salam, who has been designated as the new Prime Minister of Lebanon, has resigned as a member of the International Court of Justice, said the ICJ on Tuesday.
January 14, 2025
The Sudanese army on Tuesday condemned what it called "individual violations" in Sudan's El Gezira in recent days after rights groups blamed the army and its allies for
January 14, 2025Negotiators were trying to clinch agreement on Tuesday on the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza after marathon
January 13, 2025
Hopes of a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza lifted the region's government bond markets and Israel's shekel on Tuesday as investors sensed relief after 15 months
January 14, 2025
U.S.
January 14, 2025
Hamas is “very close to an agreement” with Israel on a ceasefire and prisoner exchange in Gaza, according to an official from the militant group. As a deal looms, people in Gaza share their hopes for what it might mean for them.
January 14, 2025
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate has vowed to rebuild the country following years of economic meltdown and a 14-month war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group
January 14, 2025
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a last-minute case for a plan for the post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears tantalizingly close to completion
January 14, 2025
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam said on Tuesday his hands were "extended to everyone", in a gesture to the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group that
January 14, 2025
When governments denounce terrorist attacks, backlash follows – typically within a few days, research found.
January 14, 2025
Lebanon’s Hady Habib enjoys ‘biggest achievement’ of tennis career after making history at the Australian Open
January 14, 2025
A strategic partnership treaty that Russia and Iran are poised to sign will govern the two countries' relations for the next two decades, the TASS state news agency reported on
January 14, 2025
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ever visit of the global body's rights chief to the
January 14, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group's disbandment after his next meeting with
January 14, 2025
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has told judges that Israeli objections to the investigation into the 13-month war in Gaza should be rejected
January 14, 2025
Israeli far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened on Tuesday to quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if he agrees to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage
January 14, 2025
Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary policy decisions, in what would be a sea
January 14, 2025
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun summoned Nawaf Salam, head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him prime minister after most lawmakers
January 13, 2025
The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said
January 13, 2025
Hamas expected to release 33 hostages in first phase of emerging ceasefire deal, Israeli officials say
January 13, 2025
Officials say Israel and Hamas appear to be inching closer to a phased ceasefire agreement
January 13, 2025
Outgoing President Joe Biden sought to burnish his foreign policy record on Monday and said U.S. adversaries are weaker than
January 13, 2025
A growing number of Israeli soldiers are speaking out against the Israel-Hamas war
January 13, 2025
Lebanon’s new president has asked prominent diplomat and jurist Nawaf Salam to form the country’s new government after Salam was named prime minister by a large number of legislators
January 13, 2025
As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office next week, he's insistent that his one-term presidency has made strides in restoring American credibility on the world stage and has proved that the U.S. remains an indispensable partner around the globe
January 13, 2025
Turkey's intelligence chief discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza in a phone call on Monday with officials from the political wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, a
January 13, 2025
Paving the way for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to run for a fourth term in office is "on our agenda", the spokesman for the president's ruling party said on Monday, adding that
January 13, 2025
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday he would sign a bilateral security deal with Britain as well as a strategic partnership accord as he headed to
January 13, 2025
Cryptocurrency firm Tether plans to move its headquarters to El Salvador, its chief executive said, as the founders of the world's biggest stablecoin look to
January 13, 2025
President Joseph Aoun summoned jurist Nawaf Salam on Monday to designate him as Lebanon's prime minister, after a majority of Lebanese lawmakers nominated him for the post.
January 13, 2025
Officials say U.S. and Arab mediators made significant progress overnight toward brokering a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and the release of scores of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, but a deal has not been reached yet
January 13, 2025
The Biden administration sees a possible Gaza truce as soon as this week, White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan told Bloomberg News on Monday, adding that there
January 13, 2025
Lebanon's Hezbollah is trying "to regain strength and rearm with the assistance of Iran," Israel's U.N. ambassador told the Security Council on Monday,
January 13, 2025
Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations said,
January 13, 2025
US officials say Gaza ceasefire deal is in sight, the first sign of serious optimism in months
January 13, 2025
Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Turkey
January 13, 2025
Top ICJ judge Nawaf Salam named Lebanon’s next prime minister
January 13, 2025
The head of the International Court of Justice, Nawaf Salam, secured the support of enough lawmakers to be designated Lebanon's next prime minister on Monday, political sources said
January 13, 2025
Hamas said on Monday that talks over some core issues for a ceasefire deal in Gaza have made progress, an official in the Palestinian group told Reuters.
January 13, 2025
Senior Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammed Raad said on Monday the Iran-backed group's opponents were seeking its fragmentation and exclusion from power in Lebanon.
January 13, 2025
Israel's budget deficit could near 5% of gross domestic product in 2025, above the government's target but below last year's 6.9% and a level that could boost its
January 13, 2025
The Iran-backed Hezbollah group postponed an appointment with President Joseph Aoun on Monday at which it was due to communicate its preference for the post of prime minister,
January 13, 2025
While overall atrocities declined last year, they came down from one of the worst years on record. Meanwhile, a number of areas actually got worse in 2024.
January 13, 2025
Six member states of the European Union have called for the bloc to temporarily suspend sanctions on Syria in areas such as transport, energy and banking, according to a paper seen by
January 13, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Russia on Jan. 17 after which they will sign a long-awaited comprehensive strategic
January 13, 2025
Angry members of some of the families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza harangued Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday over his opposition to a deal being negotiated
January 13, 2025
Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect talks for more than a year aimed at ending the war in Gaza and returning scores of militant-held hostages in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel
January 13, 2025
A risky operation to salvage an oil tanker attacked by Houthi militants in the Red Sea and avert what could have been one of the largest oil spills in recorded history has been
January 13, 2025
Turkey's intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that killed dozens
January 13, 2025
Israel has not received a draft proposal for a deal to halt the fighting in Gaza and return its hostages, an Israeli official said on Monday.
January 13, 2025
Nahid Taghavi, an Iranian-German women's rights activist, has been released from prison and is back in Germany after more than four years incarceration in Iran, Amnesty
January 13, 2025Denmark recognises that the United States has security interests in the Arctic and is ready to discuss these with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump,
January 13, 2025
Azerbaijani human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was sentenced by a Baku court to 10 years in prison on Monday on an array of corruption and other charges that he denied, his
January 13, 2025A young gorilla rescued from a plane’s cargo hold is recovering at an Istanbul zoo while wildlife officers consider returning him to his natural habitat
January 12, 2025
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January 13, 2025
A high-level United Arab Emirates delegation was in Lebanon on Monday to make arrangements for the reopening of the Gulf Arab state's embassy
January 13, 2025A thousand new drones were delivered to Iran's army on Monday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, as the country braces for more friction with arch-enemy Israel and the
January 13, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and
January 12, 2025
President Joe Biden has spoken with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but no agreement has been reached on a deal to get them back
January 12, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden have spoken in a phone call on the latest efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release in the Israel-Hamas war
January 12, 2025
The European Union's foreign policy chief says the bloc's foreign ministers will discuss easing sanctions imposed on Syria at a Jan. 27 meeting in Brussels
January 12, 2025
Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and
January 12, 2025
U.S.
January 12, 2025
Netanyahu and Biden discuss progress in Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal talks
January 12, 2025
Italy releases Iranian businessman wanted by US over drone attack that killed Americans
January 12, 2025
U.S.
January 12, 2025
Israel plans to use tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay the PA's nearly 2 billion shekel ($544 million) debt to state-run Israel
January 12, 2025
Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who had been detained in Italy on a U.S. warrant, on Sunday left jail and returned to Iran after Rome's justice
January 12, 2025
Italy has released an Iranian citizen wanted by the U.S. over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago, after the Italian justice minister asked a court to revoke his arrest
January 12, 2025A top level Israeli security delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for talks on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister
January 12, 2025
European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of
January 12, 2025
The world must return to a policy of "maximum pressure" against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S.
January 11, 2025
Health officials in central Yemen say at least 15 have been killed in an explosion and fire at a gas station
January 12, 2025
Hady Habib’s history-making run at the Australian Open will continue
January 12, 2025
‘Cautious optimism’ as Mossad chief arrives in Qatar for ceasefire-for-hostages talks
January 11, 2025
U.S.
January 11, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza
January 11, 2025
Sudan's army said on Saturday it had entered the central city of Wad Madani and was pushing out its paramilitary rivals the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a step which if completed
January 11, 2025
Iran was holding air defence exercises on Saturday, state media reported, as the country braces for more friction with arch-enemy Israel and the United States under incoming U.S.
January 11, 2025Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab
January 11, 2025
Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security
January 11, 2025Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Damascus on Saturday in a bid to improve long-fraught ties, with the pair
January 11, 2025
A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict
January 11, 2025
Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb, a site of mass pilgrimage for Shi'ites, state news agency
January 11, 2025Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will hold consultations with members of parliament from Jan. 13 to nominate a prime minister, the presidency said on Friday.
January 10, 2025
Watershed moment for the Middle East after Lebanon elects new president - with a Saudi push
January 11, 2025‘Everyone was surprised by his arrival’: Former Sde Teiman detainees reject claims against Palestinian doctor
January 10, 2025
A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti, police said on Saturday, a day after the antisemitic vandalism of a separate synagogue in the New South Wales state capital
January 11, 2025Israel identifies body of hostage recovered from Gaza, days after father’s remains were found
January 10, 2025
Iran unveils underground storage facility, claims development of ‘new special missiles’
January 10, 2025Israel’s military says it has carried out new airstrikes on Yemen against what it said were Houthi rebel targets
January 10, 2025
The United Nations and Israel are arguing over who must fill the gap if U.N.
January 10, 2025
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that he had called for a moratorium on EU sanctions on Syria for six months or one year, but that a final
January 10, 2025
France summoned Iran’s ambassador on Friday to protest over the case of three of its citizens whose detention conditions the foreign ministry said were akin to torture.
January 10, 2025U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior military posts
January 10, 2025
Five people were killed and four wounded in an Israeli strike on the town of Tayr Debba in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
January 10, 2025Israel confirmed on Friday that the remains of a hostage found killed in Gaza were of Hamza Ziyadne, the son of deceased hostage Youssef Ziyadne, whose body was
January 10, 2025
Israeli warplanes bombed a power station and two ports in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Friday in retaliation for Houthi drone and missile strikes
January 10, 2025Switzerland has demanded more information from authorities in Iran after a Swiss citizen died in prison in the Islamic Republic.
January 10, 2025Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile
January 10, 2025
An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a major oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, according private security firm Ambrey
January 10, 2025
Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said.
January 10, 2025Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati will meet Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday, two Lebanese sources said, becoming the first head of
January 10, 2025
The U.S.
January 09, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that the new Syrian administration should be given an opportunity to address the presence of Kurdish militants in the country,
January 10, 2025
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely
January 09, 2025
The wives of two Mallorca players say they were harassed by local fans after a Spanish Super Cup game played in Saudi Arabia that ended in a victory for Real Madrid
January 10, 2025
Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani said on Friday he expects more investments from the oil-rich Gulf into the U.S. as President-elect Donald J.
January 10, 2025
Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has
January 09, 2025
$1-billion Dubai skyscrapers to be linked by daring rooftop pool
January 10, 2025
Turkish police in the southern province of Mersin said they had detained a pro-Kurdish mayor on Friday, along with five other managers of the municipality, as part of a terrorism-
January 10, 2025Medical aid agency MSF said on Friday it has been forced to suspend its activities at one of the few remaining hospitals in southern Khartoum due to repeated attacks, cutting
January 10, 2025
Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of
January 10, 2025
A move by the Sudanese government to introduce new banknotes and compel people to open bank accounts has boosted bank deposits and with them the army's war effort, finance
January 10, 2025Leaders of rival communities in Cyprus will meet on Jan. 20 to discuss opening new crossing points on the ethnically-split island, diplomats and officials said on Friday.
January 10, 2025Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is heading to Syria to encourage the transition in the country following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents
January 09, 2025
Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum
January 09, 2025
U.S.
January 10, 2025
The Biden administration has succeeded in temporarily blocking accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from entering a guilty plea that would spare him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
January 09, 2025
Sept. 11 survivors and victims’ relatives have mixed feelings about a planned plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
January 09, 2025
U.S. and Arab mediators have made some progress in their efforts to reach a ceasefire accord between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, but not enough to seal a deal,
January 09, 2025
Gaza death toll has been significantly underreported, study finds
January 09, 2025
Jude Bellingham has scored again to lead Real Madrid into the Spanish Super Cup final after leading a 3-0 win over Mallorca in Saudi Arabia
January 09, 2025
After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is reaching a pivotal moment this month
January 08, 2025
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict
January 09, 2025
The Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement that ended a major war between the two countries last November is on a knife’s edge. CNN joins the United Nations’ Indian peacekeeping contingent in south Lebanon where the threat of conflict re-erupting looms large.
January 09, 2025
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides held meetings with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed on Thursday, the Cypriot presidency said,
January 09, 2025
Talks are taking place on whether U.S. and French troops could secure a border zone in
January 08, 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has climbed above 46,000
January 09, 2025
Swiss national accused of spying died by suicide in Iranian prison, Iran’s judiciary says
January 09, 2025
House passes International Criminal Court sanctions bill in response to Netanyahu warrant
January 09, 2025
A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an Israeli-Russian researcher who is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq nearly two years ago
January 09, 2025Palestinian Authority security forces are struggling to win the trust of residents of Jenin as they try to assert control over the city, a historic centre
January 09, 2025
The Polish government said on Thursday it would ensure free and safe participation in the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp for the highest
January 09, 2025
NATO needs a stronger focus on the south and Africa, Italy's prime minister told a news conference on Thursday, saying Russia might boost its presence in eastern Libya after the
January 09, 2025
A Swiss national arrested in Iran and accused of spying took their own life in prison on Thursday, the chief justice of Iran's Semnan province was quoted as saying by the judiciary
January 09, 2025A Swiss national detained in Iran on espionage charges has killed himself at a prison in rural Semnan province
January 09, 2025The Polish government has adopted a resolution vowing to ensure the free and safe participation of Israeli leaders who choose to attend commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau later this month
January 09, 2025
Lebanon's parliament will attempt to elect elect a new head of state on Thursday, with officials seeing better odds of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's assault on
January 08, 2025
General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah,
January 09, 2025
US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s president, ending years-long stalemate
January 09, 2025
The U.S.
January 09, 2025
Oil producer Saudi Aramco and Algeria's Sonatrach lowered January's official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by between 1.6% and 6% from December because of
January 09, 2025
Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticism of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave
January 09, 2025
Turkish officials will tell U.S.
January 09, 2025Turkey is planning to start flights to Syria's Damascus in the coming days, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on Thursday.
January 09, 2025
Singapore said on Thursday it had detained three men since October last year who were preparing to travel to the Middle East to fight against Israel, and one had expressed
January 09, 2025The Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a "significant regional and economic partner" after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level
January 09, 2025
The United States has not submitted any formal request of extradition for an Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini detained in Milan, Italy's justice minister said in an interview
January 09, 2025A boycott against Unilever and other multinationals operating in Israel has worsened the global consumer company's loss of market share
January 09, 2025
Israel’s military says troops have recovered the body of another hostage from Gaza
January 08, 2025
Israel's military said its forces have recovered the body of a hostage held in Gaza
January 08, 2025
An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks has been freed and has returned home, after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy and wanted by the United States
January 08, 2025
As winter deepens, so does the suffering of dozens of hostages in Gaza, and their families are pressing for a ceasefire that will secure their release
January 08, 2025
Israel to conceal soldiers’ identities after Brazilian probe into war crimes allegations
January 09, 2025
The Israeli military placed new restrictions on media coverage of soldiers on active combat duty amid growing concern at the risk of legal action against reservists travelling
January 08, 2025
Israeli military says hostage found dead in Gaza tunnel, ‘grave concerns’ for second captive
January 08, 2025
Lebanon's parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, three senior political sources said, ending a presidential
January 08, 2025
Three Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Wednesday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency WAFA said, as Israeli strikes persisted following
January 08, 2025
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told The Associated Press that the U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic State group from reconstituting as a major threat
January 08, 2025
The body of Youssef Ziyadne, an Israeli Bedouin taken hostage by Hamas-led fighters on Oct. 7, 2023, has been found in a tunnel in Gaza, along with evidence suggesting his son
January 08, 2025A U.S. sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria is welcome, but "much more significant work ... will inevitably be
January 08, 2025
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was freed by Iran on Wednesday and returned home, three weeks after she was detained in Tehran during a reporting trip.
January 08, 2025
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July 16, 2013US offered to swap Guantanamo prisoner to free detained Americans in Afghanistan
January 07, 2025
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold face-to-face talks with imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan for a second time, possibly as early as next week, two DEM
January 08, 2025
European Union sanctions in Syria that obstruct the delivery of humanitarian aid and hinder the country's recovery could be lifted swiftly,
January 08, 2025
Israeli strikes killed dozens of people across Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as talks to halt the fighting continued in Qatar and Israeli troops
January 08, 2025
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala lands back in Rome after being freed from detention in Iran
January 08, 2025
Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut's valley temple in Luxor and the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, grandmother of
January 08, 2025
Israel’s military releases interrogation video in bid to defend assault on Gaza hospitals
January 08, 2025
Libya's eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, three lawmakers said, a measure aimed at reunifying the oil-
January 08, 2025
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused neighbouring Armenia of posing a "fascist" threat that needs to be destroyed, in comments that Armenia's leader called a possible attempt to
January 08, 2025
U.S. stocks look set to extend their outperformance this year driven by the financial firepower of big tech firms and investor friendly policies under a second
January 08, 2025
India will consider engaging in development projects in Afghanistan in the near future, India's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, despite the lack of diplomatic relations.
January 08, 2025A renowned Israeli TV journalist who lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS is returning to the air using artificial-intelligence software that recreates his widely recognized gravelly voice
January 08, 2025
‘Barça is the club of my life’: In CNN exclusive Lamine Yamal pledges long-term future to Barcelona after historic 2024
January 08, 2025
Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years
January 08, 2025
Egyptian inflation is expected to have eased to 24.2% in December as food prices continued to cool, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
January 08, 2025
Lebanon is set to extradite the son of late senior Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates after the country's caretaker cabinet approved the move on Tuesday,
January 07, 2025UAE says it has discussed a potential role in postwar Gaza, but conditions remain unmet
January 07, 2025
Iran's foreign ministry called upon Paris to review its "unconstructive" approach, a few days before Tehran is set to hold a new round of talks about its nuclear programme with major
January 08, 2025
The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at Damascus airport
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty
January 07, 2025
Ireland joins genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice
January 07, 2025
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January 06, 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians, nearly all of them women or children
January 07, 2025
The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, has held talks with his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar in the Gulf nation, the UAE state news agency (WAM)
January 07, 2025
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Europe, the Middle East and Asia from Jan. 13 through Jan. 17, the White House said on Tuesday.
January 07, 2025
Germany is leading European Union discussions on easing sanctions imposed on the Syrian government of toppled President Bashar al-Assad and aiding the country's
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration in its final days is shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon as it tries to bolster a ceasefire agreement it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah
January 07, 2025
Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel fully end its assault on Gaza under any deal to release hostages, and said U.S.
January 07, 2025
U.S.
January 06, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday he hopes to have good things to report about hostages held by Hamas in Gaza by the time
January 07, 2025
Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia if the group does not meet Ankara's demands, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said
January 07, 2025President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce a $20 billion investment into building data centers in the United States by the Emirati company led by a billionaire who is a close business partner of the Trump family
January 07, 2025
Walt Disney has named Tony Chambers president of Disney in Europe, Middle East and Africa, as part of a restructuring of its entertainment businesses in the region, the company said
January 07, 2025
Israel said on Tuesday pressure groups were pushing foreign courts to take action against Israelis over alleged war crimes in Gaza but described the actions as "propaganda
January 07, 2025Syria will take its time to organise a landmark national dialogue conference to ensure that the preparations include all segments of Syrian society, Foreign Minister Asaad al-
January 07, 2025
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to close out her term with an around-the-world trip
January 07, 2025
Trump warns ‘all hell will break out’ if Gaza hostages aren’t released before his inauguration
January 07, 2025
Qatar is planning to help finance a massive boost in public sector wages promised by Syria's new government, a U.S. official and a senior
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration is negotiating with Afghanistan to exchange Americans detained in the country for at least one high-profile prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay with alleged
January 07, 2025
GM Defense's Suburban Shield: Revolutionizing Diplomatic Security and VIP Transport
January 07, 202511 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay transferred to Oman
January 07, 2025
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinian militants in stepped-up operations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday following the killing of three Israelis near a Jewish
January 07, 2025
At the heart of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal stands the Litani River in Lebanon, just a few kilometers from Israel's northern border. CNN's Tamara Qiblawi visited the banks of the river to break down why this geographic landmark is so significant.
January 05, 2025
Turkey is working to ensure that Syria's transformation over the last month will not bring new instabilities to the region, President Tayyip Erdogan told the Iraqi Kurdish prime
January 07, 2025
Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4 billion in 2024, more than double that of 2023, led by firms seeking to protect the cloud along with a surge in artificial
January 07, 2025
The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being
January 07, 2025
The U.S. has transferred 11 Yemeni men to Oman after holding them for more than two decades without charge at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
January 06, 2025
Jordan and Syria have agreed to form a joint security committee to secure their border, combat arms and drug smuggling and work to prevent the resurgence of Islamic State militants,
January 07, 2025
‘MSN reunion? Football is full of surprises’: Neymar hints at revival of famed trio in CNN exclusive as he targets World Cup
January 07, 2025
Violence surges in West Bank as three Israelis killed and reprisals reported
January 06, 2025
Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkey and Qatar to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during President Bashar al-Assad's rule, state news
January 07, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to roll over the payment of $2 billion due by Pakistan this month, the South Asian nation's Prime Minister Shehbaz
January 07, 2025The United Arab Emirates has discussed with Israel and the United States participating in a provisional administration of post-war Gaza until a reformed
January 07, 2025
The situation of three French citizens held in Iran is worsening with some being detained in conditions similar to torture, France's foreign minister said on Tuesday,
January 07, 2025
The volume of global crude exports in 2024 declined 2%, the first fall since the COVID-19 pandemic, shipping data showed, due to weak demand growth and as
January 07, 2025
The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open
January 07, 2025The son of a Florida retiree says Saudi Arabia has forced his father to take steps to renounce his American citizenship after jailing him over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince
January 07, 2025
Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank, killing at least three people and wounding eight others, Israel’s rescue service said
January 06, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas has approved a list of 34 hostages presented by Israel to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire deal, a group official told Reuters on Sunday.
January 05, 2025
Access to halal mortgages, which provide interest-free housing loans, has been growing in the US.
September 16, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday that he was happy to see the Israeli army withdraw from the western sector of Lebanon back to Israel.
January 06, 2025
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January 06, 2025
The U.S. on Monday eased some restrictions on Syria’s transitional government after Islamist insurgents ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad
January 06, 2025
The U.S. military said on Monday operations against Islamic State in Iraq over the past week led to the death of a non-U.S. coalition soldier and wounded two other non-U.S.
January 06, 2025Israel and Hamas are once again struggling to reach a ceasefire that could wind down the 15-month war in Gaza and bring home dozens of Israelis held hostage
January 06, 2025
The U.S. on Monday issued a sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria for six months after the end
January 06, 2025
The U.N.
January 06, 2025Oil prices eased in volatile trade on Monday as some bearish economic news from the United States and Germany offset bullish support from a weaker U.S. dollar and
January 06, 2025
Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others
January 06, 2025
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed discussed bolstering "brotherly" ties with Syria during the first official visit by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani to
January 06, 2025
Israeli soldiers face growing risk of arrest abroad after Gaza service
January 05, 2025
Lucid beat expectations for quarterly deliveries, as the Saudi Arabia-backed maker of luxury electric vehicles lowered prices and offered cheaper financing to drive demand
January 06, 2025
Three Israelis were killed and several injured on Monday in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the settlement of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,
January 06, 2025
The United Nations' Yemen mediator arrived in Yemen's capital on Monday as part of a bid to subdue heightened tensions in his first visit in almost two years, a spokesperson
January 06, 2025
The Bank of Israel left interest rates unchanged for the eighth straight meeting on Monday, citing expectations of higher inflation and economic uncertainty due
January 06, 2025
Iran's disputed uranium enrichment drive is nearing a point of no return and European partners to a moribund 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran should consider reimposing sanctions if
January 06, 2025
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January 06, 2025Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed
January 06, 2025
Iran said on Monday the detention of an Iranian national in Italy at the request of the U.S. amounted to hostage-taking.
January 06, 2025The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) plans to expand its work in Syria significantly beyond an initial $100 million programme, the organisation's president said on
January 06, 2025
Israel warns Lebanon truce could collapse if Hezbollah doesn’t withdraw in south
January 05, 2025
Hamas approves list of Israeli hostages for potential exchange, Reuters reports
January 05, 2025
A group of Afghan nationals have arrived in the Philippines to process special immigrant visas for their resettlement in the United States
January 06, 2025
A senior Hezbollah security official says leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the militant group’s war operations room
January 05, 2025
Turkey has launched an investigation into an opposition mayor's comments about Syrians, including his claims that he unlawfully revoked some of their business licences in his northwestern
January 06, 2025The United Arab Emirates' non-oil private sector expanded at its fastest pace in nine months in December, driven by strong demand and increased business activity, a survey showed on
January 06, 2025
Operating conditions in Egypt's non-oil private sector deteriorated in December, with output and new orders falling at the sharpest rates in eight months amid rising cost pressures,
January 06, 2025
Two Palestinians, including a 17-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Fatah party and the Palestinian
January 05, 2025Israel has helped a former soldier leave Brazil after legal action was initiated against him by a group accusing Israelis of war crimes in the Gaza Strip
January 05, 2025
The FBI is looking into past visits to Egypt and Canada by the suspect in the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people after a truck was rammed into a
January 05, 2025
Israel and Hamas wrangled on Sunday over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said
January 05, 2025
Israeli military enlists first group of ultra-Orthodox recruits into brigade
January 05, 2025
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday she was ready to work with Donald Trump after making a surprise visit to Florida to meet the president-
January 04, 2025
Syria's finance minister said on Sunday the government would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month after completing an administrative
January 05, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Syria's new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had "neutralised" 32 members of the
January 05, 2025
Syria’s new foreign minister has met with his Qatari counterpart and Qatar’s prime minister in Doha on Sunday
January 05, 2025
Syria's new Islamist rulers said on Sunday that U.S. sanctions on Syria were an obstacle to the war-torn country's rapid recovery
January 05, 2025
The Bank of Israel is expected to leave short-term interest rates unchanged for an eighth straight policy meeting this week, although analysts believe a rate cut
January 05, 2025
Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 people over the last day, Palestinian medics said on Saturday, as
January 04, 2025
Strong demand drove growth in Saudi Arabia's non-oil business sector in December, albeit at a slightly slower pace than the previous month, a survey showed on Sunday.
January 05, 2025
Family of hostage in latest Hamas video urges Netanyahu to take ‘opportunity to bring them back’
January 04, 2025
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January 04, 2025
Hospital staff in Gaza say the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 21 people including at least two children
January 04, 2025
The State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel
January 04, 2025
Israel considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Trump’s inauguration
January 04, 2025
Malaysian authorities say they have turned away two boats carrying nearly 300 Muslim Rohingya refugees who had entered the country illegally
January 04, 2025State Department notifies Congress of planned $8 billion arms sale to Israel
January 04, 2025
The truck attack in New Orleans by an Army veteran inspired by the Islamic State group unfolded amid months of warnings by officials about a resurgent terrorism threat
January 04, 2025
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January 04, 2025U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to South Korea, Japan and France from Jan. 4-9, the State Department said on Friday, amid a political crisis in Seoul.
January 04, 2025
Israel on Friday defended its raid on a north Gaza hospital last week while the U.N. human rights chief called the justification unsubstantiated and the
January 03, 2025
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Hamas said a new round of indirect talks on a Gaza ceasefire resumed in Qatar's Doha on Friday, stressing the group's seriousness in seeking to reach a deal as soon as possible,
January 03, 2025
Syria's new rulers have not yet decided when to hold a landmark national dialogue conference that is meant to bring together Syrians from across society to chart a
January 03, 2025Hamas says Gaza deal talks will resume on Friday
January 02, 2025
The top diplomats from Germany and France are in Syria to send what the German minister called a clear signal that a “political new beginning” between Europe and Syria is possible after the ouster of Bashar Assad
January 03, 2025
Israel has carried out airstrikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that
January 03, 2025
Hospital and emergency response workers say Israeli strikes have killed at least 42 people in Gaza
January 03, 2025
Syria's new administration has imposed restrictions on Lebanese crossing their shared border into Syria, a Lebanese security official and a Syrian official said on Friday.
January 03, 2025
A Palestinian man and his son were killed in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, local medical officials said on Friday, as a month-long standoff between Palestinian
January 03, 2025Iran's foreign ministry summoned the Italian ambassador on Friday over the detention of an Iranian national wanted by the United States for his alleged role in a deadly drone strike
January 03, 2025Turkish inflation was lower than expected at 44.38% annually and 1.03% on a monthly basis in December, data showed on Friday, in a month in which the central bank launched an
January 03, 2025
All Syrian groups, including women and Kurds, must be involved in the country's transition if Damascus wants European support, Germany's foreign minister said
January 03, 2025
French and German foreign ministers meet Syria’s new leaders in first high-level EU visit since Assad’s toppling
January 03, 2025
Syria's foreign minister has told Saudi Arabian officials that the new leadership in Damascus wants to set up a government involving all parts of Syrian society
January 03, 2025
New research shows that Afghan women earned 13% more for every additional year of schooling they received after the Taliban fell in 2001. That progress is now in peril.
January 03, 2025
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 50 people, including several children, as they struck Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone
January 02, 2025
As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield
January 03, 2025
Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people across the Gaza Strip, including several children and two high-ranking police officers
January 02, 2025
As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year's Day in New
January 03, 2025
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January 02, 2025
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January 02, 2025Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave's
January 02, 2025
Syria's foreign and defence ministers met with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Riyadh on Thursday in a landmark first visit abroad by members of the new Syrian
January 02, 2025
Israel's military said on Thursday its special forces had raided an underground missile production site in Syria in September that it said was primed to produce hundreds of
January 02, 2025
ISIS no longer rules a territory. But its recruits still pose a global threat
January 02, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from hospital on Thursday after his prostate surgery ended "successfully,", his office reported on X.
January 02, 2025
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January 02, 2025
Changes to Syria’s school curriculum spark online outrage
January 02, 2025
Italy's foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of reporter Cecilia Sala, who was seized in Tehran on Dec. 19
January 02, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he was preparing to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria, less than a month after the overthrow of the Russia-backed
January 02, 2025
Israeli strike kills 11 people, including head of Gaza police, Palestinian officials say
January 02, 2025
The FBI says it recovered the black flag of the Islamic State group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans’ French Quarter
January 01, 2025
An Israeli hostage held by Gaza's Islamic Jihad militant group has tried to take his own life, the spokesperson for the movement's armed wing said in a video posted
January 02, 2025Turkey's manufacturing sector contracted at the slowest rate in eight months in December, a business survey showed on Thursday, in a sign that the sector is nearing stabilisation.
January 02, 2025
Saudi Arabia says it has executed six Iranian men over drug smuggling, sparking strong objections from Iran at a time when the two countries are trying to mend relations
January 01, 2025Gaza’s population is falling, while Israel’s growth is slowing
January 01, 2025
Palestinian Authority freezes Al Jazeera operations in the West Bank
January 02, 2025
The Palestinian Authority temporarily halted operations of Qatar's Al Jazeera television in the territory including its broadcasts, citing the network's dissemination of "inciting
January 01, 2025
Protesters in Syria have held a sit-in demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose fate remains one of the most haunting mysteries of the country’s 13-year civil war
January 01, 2025
Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who had often taken an independent line against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government allies, said on
January 01, 2025
A Syrian delegation led by newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday in its first official visit abroad, Syrian state news agency SANA
January 01, 2025
Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes have killed at least 12 people in Gaza, mostly women and children
January 01, 2025
Saudi Arabia executed six Iranian nationals for drug smuggling, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to summon the Saudi ambassador according to media
January 01, 2025The population of Gaza has fallen 6% since the war with Israel began nearly 15 months ago as about 100,000 Palestinians left the enclave while more than 55,000 are presumed dead,
January 01, 2025
Yemen's Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said that the country would continue to defend itself after several U.S. strikes targeted facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
December 31, 2024
The Israeli military kept up the pressure on northern Gaza on Wednesday, striking in a suburb of Gaza City, medics said, and told residents in a central part of the enclave to
January 01, 2025
Seven migrants were rescued, but at least 20 are missing after their boat sank en route to Italy from Libya, the mayor of the Italian island of Lampedusa said on Wednesday.
January 01, 2025The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries will take place on Jan. 13 in Geneva, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency cited the country's Deputy
January 01, 2025
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company accounted for about 20% of the almost $136.1 billion spent by sovereign wealth funds worldwide last year, overtaking Saudi
January 01, 2025‘We’re dying from the cold’: Displaced Palestinians battle winter in Gaza
January 01, 2025
Israel raid empties northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital of all patients and detains its director
December 30, 2024
Spike in Russian flights from Syria to Libyan desert base as Moscow eyes new Mediterranean hub
December 31, 2024
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December 31, 2024According to US Central Command, two US Navy pilots ejected safely after their fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent friendly fire incident. CNN military analyst Col. Cedric Leighton breaks down how a friendly fire incident can happen.
December 22, 2024
Matt Borie, Chief Intelligence Officer for Osprey Flight Solutions, explains why early indications in their investigation suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system may have downed an Azerbaijan Airlines jet.
December 26, 2024
Israeli leader Netanyahu takes a break from hospital to pass divisive bill
December 31, 2024
A U.S. military appeals court has ruled that plea deals related to the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two accomplices can proceed
December 31, 2024
Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system and raised serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international law, the U.N.
December 31, 2024
The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of Bashar Assad’s government weeks earlier
December 31, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got up from his hospital bed to call on unruly coalition partners to fall in line and back his government's 2025 budget
December 31, 2024
France carried out missile strikes last weekend in Syria, targeting Islamic State sites in the country, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday.
December 31, 2024
Families of military officers who served under Syria's ousted Bashar al-Assad are being evicted from their subsidised housing at a compound outside Damascus to
December 31, 2024
Once muscular and strong, Palestinian bodybuilder Moazaz Obaiyat’s nine-month spell in Israeli custody left him
December 31, 2024
Dozens of patients and the wounded have been evacuated for treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says Israel’s attacks on and around hospitals have pushed health care to the brink
December 31, 2024
US repatriates Tunisian detainee held without charge at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened
December 31, 2024
Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
December 30, 2024
Israeli strike kills five journalists in Gaza, hospital says
December 26, 2024
Syria's new rulers have installed some foreign fighters including Uyghurs, a Jordanian and a Turk in the country's armed
December 30, 2024
Turkey imposed a 6% tax hike on fuel on Tuesday, after its finance minister said over the weekend that tax moves on fuel and tobacco would not affect the government's inflation goal
December 31, 2024
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt missile
December 30, 2024
Syria's new foreign minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani on Monday urged Kuwait to reopen its embassy in Damascus and resume relations with Syria following the downfall of Bashar al-
December 30, 2024
One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
December 31, 2024
The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women
December 31, 2024For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy
December 30, 2024
Yahya Al-Batran woke up in the early hours of Sunday morning to find his wife, Noura trying to wake their newborn twin sons Jumaa and Ali as they
December 30, 2024
The Indiana National Guard says a 34-year-old soldier serving in Iraq has died in a non-combat incident
December 30, 2024
The head of the internationally recognized Syrian opposition body during the previous administration's rule, said on Monday that the group has not received an invitation to the
December 30, 2024
The Pentagon said on Monday a ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces around the northern Syrian city of Manbij was holding.
December 30, 2024Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told his Emirati counterpart on Monday that Brazil will work to seal a deal between South American trade bloc Mercosur and the
December 30, 2024
Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with the two sides bringing home a combined total of more than 300 former captives.
December 30, 2024
Syria hopes for strategic partnerships with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in
December 30, 2024
Chipmaker Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Israeli AI firm Run:ai, the startup said on Monday, following antitrust scrutiny over the buyout.
December 30, 2024
Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner swap on Monday, with each side freeing 150 prisoners of war, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement.
December 30, 2024
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that released hundreds of captives and was brokered with the help of the United Arab Emirates
December 30, 2024
Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for "violating the laws of the Islamic Republic", Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
December 30, 2024
Germany said on Monday it would back 60 million euros ($62.70 million) worth of projects in Syria to boost education, women's rights and other areas in the aftermath of the
December 30, 2024
Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in remarks broadcast on Sunday, the first time
December 29, 2024
Gaza hospital director held at notorious Israeli military detention center, recently released detainees say
December 30, 2024
Iran's state media say an Italian journalist has been arrested on charges of violating the Islamic Republic's laws
December 30, 2024Iran confirms arrest of Italian journalist, state media reports
December 30, 2024
Syrian elections could take up to 4 years to organize, de facto leader says
December 30, 2024
Germany’s federal prosecutor has charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, alleging they kept two young Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them
December 30, 2024Pakistani student Laiba Rashid, 22, hopes her life will change once she learns how to drive a motorcycle after undergoing a training programme that
December 30, 2024
Turkey is ready to supply electricity to Syria and Lebanon and a team of government officials is already in Syria working on how to resolve its
December 30, 2024Turkey's tax hikes for fuel and tobacco next year will be set in a way that will not endanger the country's 2025 inflation plans, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said.
December 30, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days.
December 30, 2024
Syria's long-ruling Baath party has frozen its activities after insurgents overthrew President Bashar Assad weeks ago
December 30, 2024Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev says the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally
December 29, 2024
A gas explosion killed three police officers as maintenance work was being performed at Egypt's police academy in Cairo on Sunday night, the country's interior ministry said in a
December 29, 2024Israeli hospital says Netanyahu has undergone successful prostate surgery
December 29, 2024Israel arrests hospital director and other staff in raid on last functioning facility in northern Gaza, health officials say
December 28, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in good condition and fully conscious after his prostate surgery ended "successfully," his office said on Sunday.
December 29, 2024
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100 on Sunday. Here are several key events from the Georgia Democrat's time in office from 1977 to 1981.
December 29, 2024
An Israeli hospital says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has undergone successful prostate surgery
December 29, 2024
A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by nearly 15 months of war are huddled in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives
December 29, 2024
Syria’s de facto leader has said it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans on dissolving his Islamist group that led the country’s insurgency at an anticipated national dialogue summit for the country
December 29, 2024
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by
December 29, 2024
Israeli forces carrying out a weeks-long offensive in northern Gaza ordered any residents remaining in Beit Hanoun to leave the town on Sunday, citing Palestinian
December 29, 2024
Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has said that he is willing to contribute to peace between Turks and Kurds, according to the pro-Kurdish DEM party
December 29, 2024Shark attack at Egyptian Red Sea resort kills one foreigner, injures another
December 29, 2024Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region
December 29, 2024
The jailed leader of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has been quoted as indicating he may be prepared to call for militants to lay down arms,
December 29, 2024
Hostages held in Gaza were subjected to torture, including sexual and psychological abuse, starvation, burns and medical neglect, according to a new report by
December 29, 2024
Iranian media say a suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, home to a large Sunni Muslim community
December 29, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israel’s army has detained the director of one of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals
December 28, 2024
Syria’s embassy in Lebanon has suspended consular services a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad were arrested at the Beirut airport with allegedly forged passports
December 28, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what the Kremlin called a "tragic incident"
December 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people
December 28, 2024
A suicide bomber killed the head of police intelligence in Iran's southern port city of Bandar Lengeh on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
December 28, 2024Israeli forces detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday,
December 28, 2024
The case of an Italian journalist being held in Iran is "complicated", but Rome hopes to bring 29-year-old Cecilia Sala home quickly, Italy's foreign minister said on Saturday.
December 28, 2024
Iran, bracing for a possible re-imposition of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" policy, said on Saturday that 2025 would be an important year for its nuclear issue.
December 28, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister discussed with U.S.
December 28, 2024
Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese
December 28, 2024A passenger jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after diverting from an
December 27, 2024
Iraq will allow the national carrier to resume flights to Lebanon on Monday following their suspension earlier this month, the transport minister was quoted as saying by state media
December 28, 2024Thousands of people protested in Turkey's capital Ankara on Saturday to demand a bigger hike in the minimum wage, chanting slogans calling on the government to resign and waving the
December 28, 2024Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says its forces hit several points inside Pakistan in retaliation for deadly airstrikes
December 28, 2024Afghan Taliban forces targeted "several points" in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan's defence ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft
December 28, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients
December 27, 2024
The top U.N. humanitarian official in Yemen says Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s main airport as a civilian Airbus 320 with hundreds of passengers on board was landing this week
December 27, 2024
Israeli forces surround northern Gaza hospital and order evacuation, says director
December 27, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen's main airport carried out by Israel a day
December 27, 2024
Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at the Beirut airport
December 27, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli troops have stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the territory's north and forced many of the staff and patients outside
December 27, 2024
A former engineer at a semiconductor manufacturer pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges that he illegally procured technology for an Iranian firm that made a
December 27, 2024
Israeli forces on Friday raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, ordering
December 27, 2024
An advanced U.S. military anti-missile system was used in Israel to try to intercept a projectile for the first time since President Joe Biden placed the system in Israel in October, a
December 27, 2024
UAE airline flydubai has suspended flights from Dubai to the southern Russian airports of Sochi and Mineralnie Vody, the carrier said on Friday.
December 27, 2024
Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in
December 27, 2024Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish DEM Party to hold face-to-face talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the party said on Friday, setting
December 27, 2024
WHO chief and UN team caught up in Israeli strikes that killed 6 in Yemen
December 26, 2024
Israeli jets struck seven crossing points along the Syria-Lebanon border on Friday, aiming to cut the flow of weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon.
December 27, 2024Italy said on Friday it was making every effort to bring home a journalist who has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, as politicians of all stripes expressed their concern
December 27, 2024Italian journalist Cecilia Sala arrested in Tehran, Italy says
December 27, 2024
Family members remember tow truck driver who died in hit-and-run
December 27, 2024
Turkey's inflation rate is expected to rise by 1.61% in December from the previous month and stand at 45.2% year-on-year, with the annual rate seen falling to 26.5% by the end of
December 27, 2024
A Palestinian man stabbed an 83-year-old woman to death in the Israeli city of Herzliya, Israeli media reported on Friday, in what police described as a terrorist attack.
December 27, 2024
Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, has sent its first batch of food aid to Syria, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
December 27, 2024
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight to the southern Russian town of Mineralnie Vody turned back to Baku on Friday after being told a chunk of airspace in southern Russia had been closed,
December 27, 2024
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man was caned at a mosque in the northeastern state of Terengganu on Friday for the Islamic crime of close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex, local
December 27, 2024
Turkey aims to provide electricity to Syria and strengthen its power infrastructure, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar was quoted on Friday as saying, adding that Ankara may
December 27, 2024
Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sanaa International Airport, and Houthi media said at least six people
December 26, 2024
A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen has targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports
December 26, 2024
Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the country’s fragile peace could break down
December 26, 2024
Aviation experts say that Russian air defense fire was likely responsible for the Azerbaijani plane crash the day before that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured
December 26, 2024
U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza
December 26, 2024
At least 14 security personnel killed in ‘ambush’ by former Assad forces, new Syrian authorities say
December 26, 2024
Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of harassing political opponents and witnesses in the Israeli leader’s corruption trial
December 26, 2024
The World Health Organization’s director-general said airstrikes on Yemen’s main airport occurred as he was about to board a flight in the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa
December 26, 2024
Israel’s attorney general orders probe into Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of witness harassment
December 26, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to visit Moscow on Jan. 17 and sign a cooperation agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian state news agency RIA cited
December 26, 2024
Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists in a vehicle outside a hospital on Thursday but the Israeli
December 26, 2024
Four babies die from hypothermia in Gaza, as Israel’s war pushes Palestinians into tent camps
December 25, 2024
The Israeli military loosened its rules of engagement at the start of the Gaza war to enable commanders to order attacks on targets despite a heightened risk of civilian
December 26, 2024
Lebanon said on Thursday it was looking forward to having the best neighbourly relations with Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad opened the way to a new era in the often
December 26, 2024
Syria's new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to
December 26, 2024
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) called on Thursday for a timely Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, citing what it called Israeli violations of a Nov. 27
December 26, 2024
Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on
December 25, 2024
Israel's ultranationalist security minister ascended to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Thursday for what he said was a "prayer" for hostages in Gaza, freshly
December 26, 2024
Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish party to hold talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on
December 26, 2024Accusations of genocide. Charges of corruption. Improbably, Netanyahu had a good year
December 26, 2024A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day
December 26, 2024
Expectations of a Turkish central bank rate cut strengthened on Wednesday after a less-than-requested minimum wage hike, economists said, as it showed the
December 25, 2024
Israeli hostage families light first candle of Hanukkah, marking start of second holiday without loved ones
December 25, 2024
A British-based war monitor said clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar Assad’s government have killed six Islamic fighters and wounded others
December 25, 2024
A baby girl froze to death overnight in Gaza, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts that could wind down the 14-month war
December 25, 2024
Libya's eastern-based government said in a statement on Wednesday that it had agreed on a proposal to end fuel subsidies and would prepare a mechanism to implement the agreement.
December 25, 2024
Minnesota National Guard soldier home for joyful Christmas with family after deployment
December 25, 2024A leading global food crisis monitor says deaths from starvation will likely pass famine levels in north Gaza as soon as next month
December 24, 2024
Russian cargo ship sinks in Mediterranean after engine room explosion, Moscow says
December 24, 2024
A Russian cargo ship that ran into trouble on Monday in the Mediterranean Sea and later sank was rocked by a series of three explosions in "an act of terrorism," state news agency
December 25, 2024
Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Wednesday called for talks between Ukraine and Russia to end the war that followed Moscow's full-scale invasion two
December 25, 2024
A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children
December 25, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Wednesday over their failure to conclude a
December 25, 2024
Christians protest in Syrian capital after burning of Christmas tree
December 24, 2024
Bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women
December 25, 2024Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down their weapons or "be buried", amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian
December 25, 2024
Pope calls for ‘lasting peace’ in Ukraine in Christmas Day message
December 25, 2024
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa reached an agreement on Tuesday with former rebel faction chiefs to dissolve all groups and consolidate them under the defence ministry,
December 24, 2024
The Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
December 25, 2024Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza
December 24, 2024
One-third of Turkey's children live in poverty, with many forced to work to support their struggling families
December 25, 2024
Israel's military intercepted a missile early on Wednesday that was launched from Yemen and crossed into Israeli territory, the army said.
December 25, 2024Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in raids on Tuesday on a refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli
December 24, 2024
Syria's newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, told Iran on Tuesday not to spread chaos in Syria but to respect the Syrian people's will and the country's
December 24, 2024
Oil prices rose more than 1% on Tuesday, reversing the prior session's losses on a brightening short-term outlook tied to the prospect of
December 24, 2024
Turkey's net monthly minimum wage will be 22,104 Turkish lira ($630.36) in 2025, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, marking a 30% increase from 2024.
December 24, 2024
Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in early December, in an early
December 24, 2024
The actions of the Israeli military had a "circumstantial influence" on a decision by Hamas militants to kill six hostages in Gaza in August, according to a
December 24, 2024
The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least eight people were killed by Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank
December 24, 2024
By David Gauthier-Villars, Nidal al-Mughrabi, John Davison -Israel has failed to crack down on armed gangs attacking food convoys in Gaza, despite a pledge to do so in mid-October to help ward off
December 24, 2024
Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta's instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Iranian state media reported
December 24, 2024
Morocco aims to grant women more rights over child custody and guardianship as well as a veto over polygamous marriage, in the first review of its family code in
December 24, 2024Al Jazeera television has clashed with the Palestinian Authority over its coverage of the weeks-long standoff between Palestinian security forces and militant
December 24, 2024
Two arrested in Egypt after attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea
December 24, 2024
Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and many patients, some of them on foot, arrived at another hospital miles away
December 24, 2024
An Amsterdam District Court has issued sentences of up to six months in jail against 5 men who were involved in violent disorder after a soccer match between the Dutch club Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv in November
December 24, 202411 killed in blast at explosives factory in Turkey
December 24, 2024
Turkey is aiming to strike a maritime demarcation agreement with Syria after a permanent government is formed in Damascus, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on
December 24, 2024
Syrian refugees and residents in Egypt face an uncertain future as new regulations may jeopardise their right to remain in the
December 24, 2024
Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman's 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been
December 24, 2024
Israel has instructed its diplomatic missions in Europe to try to get the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen designated as a terrorist organisation.
December 24, 2024
Famine in Sudan has expanded to five areas and will likely
December 24, 2024
A blast ripped through an explosives factory in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring seven, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding that an
December 24, 2024
It’s a simple but brutal equation: The number of people going hungry or otherwise struggling around the world is rising, while the amount of money the world’s wealthiest nations are
December 24, 2024
The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria says the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus — and it is preparing to deploy
December 24, 2024
The U.S. military said on Monday it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one.
December 24, 2024Israel’s defense minister has confirmed that Israel assassinated Hamas’ top leader last summer and is threatening to take similar action against the leadership of the Houthi rebel group in Yemen
December 23, 2024
The Israel military said in a statement early on Tuesday that sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel following the launch of a projectile from Yemen.
December 23, 2024Gaps between Israel and Hamas over a possible Gaza ceasefire have narrowed, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials' remarks on
December 23, 2024
In late September, an experienced pilot at low-cost European airline Wizz Air felt anxious after learning his plane would fly over Iraq at
December 11, 2024
Omar al-Bashir Fast Facts
December 10, 2012Turkey is in close dialogue with Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, adding visits to Syria will increase from now on.
December 23, 2024
Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents are sharing details about a deadly clandestine operation that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies
December 23, 2024
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz admitted on Monday for the first time publicly to Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July, further risking tensions
December 23, 2024
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday Lebanon will cooperate with an Interpol request to arrest former Syrian intelligence officer Jamil
December 23, 2024
Number of US troops in Syria has steadily increased over time, Pentagon now says
December 23, 2024
Egypt will contribute troops to an African Union Somalia peacekeeping mission, its foreign minister said on Monday, as ties between the two countries grow closer amid tensions with
December 23, 2024
Tensions in northeast Syria between Kurdish-led authorities and Turkish-backed groups should be resolved politically or risk "dramatic consequences" for all of Syria, the United
December 23, 2024
Greek lawyers representing the survivors and victims of a deadly 2023 shipwreck said on Monday a naval court needed to examine more evidence after a preliminary investigation failed
December 23, 2024
Qatar is ready to invest in Syria's energy sector and ports, the de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said after meeting a senior Qatari official in Damascus on Monday, as his
December 23, 2024
Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and
December 23, 2024
A new front in the Middle East: Militants battle Palestinian Authority in sprawling refugee camp
December 23, 2024
Syrian church leaders are advising Christians to scale back Christmas celebrations this year, despite assurances from the Islamists who have just
December 23, 2024
Here is what we know so far about the man who was arrested as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on Friday at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg in which
December 21, 2024
A Russian delegation met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Monday, Iranian news agencies said, as the two countries prepared to sign a comprehensive cooperation
December 23, 2024
Days before he retires as chairman of the influential U.S.
December 23, 2024
The Kremlin on Monday rejected Turkish media reports which suggested that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, wanted a divorce and to
December 23, 2024
The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday: no public Christmas tree, no raucous scouts march, no decorations and no twinkling lights, in deference to the ongoing war in Gaza
December 23, 2024
No sooner had the global economy started to put the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it than a whole new set of challenges opened up for 2025.
December 23, 2024
The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident
December 22, 2024
Two US Navy pilots eject safely over Red Sea after fighter jet shot down in apparent friendly fire incident
December 22, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister said after meeting Syria's de facto leader in Damascus on Sunday that there was no room for Kurdish militants in Syria's future, calling
December 22, 2024
Nearly two million displaced Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to protect themselves from the coming winter
December 22, 2024
Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg
December 21, 2024
Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza
December 22, 2024
Family killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza, as aid reaches neighborhood cut off for 75 days
December 22, 2024
Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 22 people, including five children
December 22, 2024
How a teenager’s holiday romance led to prison time in Dubai
December 22, 2024
A prominent Lebanese politician has met with the insurgent who led the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, and both expressed hope Sunday for a new era in relations between their countries
December 22, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would continue acting against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, whom he accused of threatening world shipping and the
December 22, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized back control of a key logistical base in North Darfur on Sunday, the paramilitary group said, a day after it was taken by rival forces
December 22, 2024
The Biden administration is concerned that a weakened Iran could build a nuclear weapon, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday, adding that he
December 22, 2024
The U.S. military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early on Sunday, forcing both pilots to eject.
December 22, 2024Syria's de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Sunday in another effort to reassure minorities they will be protected after Islamist rebels led the
December 22, 2024
Oleksandr Usyk beats Tyson Fury again as highly anticipated rematch goes the distance
December 22, 2024
Four people were killed in southwest Turkey on Sunday when an ambulance helicopter collided with a hospital building and crashed into the ground.
December 22, 2024
Turkey believes Syria's new rulers, including the Syrian National Army (SNA) armed group which Ankara backs, will drive Kurdish YPG fighters from all territory they occupy in
December 22, 2024
With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group
December 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza
December 20, 2024
Turkey will do "whatever it takes" to ensure its security if the new Syrian administration cannot address Ankara's concerns about U.S.-allied Kurdish groups it views as terrorist
December 22, 2024
At least 10 Palestinians, including two children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp and Deir Al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip,
December 21, 2024The U.S. military said it conducted precision airstrikes on Saturday against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen's
December 21, 2024Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as defence minister in the interim government, an official
December 21, 2024
Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting
December 21, 2024
The Israeli military said a rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv injuring 16 people on Saturday, and Houthi rebels later reported airstrikes in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa
December 21, 2024
Authorities investigated a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on a
December 21, 2024
The U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said five of its fighters had been killed on Saturday in attacks by Turkish-backed forces on the city of Manbij in northern Syria.
December 21, 2024
Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day
December 21, 2024
Austria is reviewing the status of Syrian refugees who arrived less than five years ago, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Thursday after media reports that some
December 19, 2024
Pope Francis is suffering from a cold and will deliver his Sunday blessing from indoors
December 21, 2024
Tel Aviv hit by missile fired from Yemen, Israel and Houthis say
December 21, 2024
Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves and her father to the sea
December 21, 2024
A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platforms' WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing
December 21, 2024
Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, who represents U.S. interests in the country, and a senior Italian diplomat over the arrest by the U.S. of two Iranian nationals this week
December 21, 2024Sixteen security personnel were killed in northwest Pakistan in an attack by Islamist militants early on Saturday, a senior police official in the South Waziristan region said, as
December 21, 2024The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century of authoritarian rule
December 21, 2024
The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild
December 21, 2024
Large-scale returns of refugees to Syria could overwhelm the country and even stoke conflict following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, the head of the U.N.
December 20, 2024
A tale of two Syrians: One finally made it back, another is too fearful to return
December 20, 2024
Two U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Friday that would impose sanctions on Turkey, citing concerns over military action by that country or groups that it backs
December 20, 2024
Officials in the United States and Israel have denied reports their countries had signed off on the sale of Israeli spyware maker Paragon to
December 20, 2024
Palestinian health officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children
December 20, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Friday extended a long-running peacekeeping mission between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for six
December 20, 2024
Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria's de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a "good"
December 20, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, including at least eight in an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp and at least 10,
December 20, 2024
Turkey expects foreign countries will withdraw support for Kurdish fighters in Syria following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, President Tayyip Erdogan said, as Ankara seeks to
December 20, 2024
US removes long-standing bounty on Syrian rebel leader
December 20, 2024
The U.S.
December 20, 2024The Biden administration says it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad
December 20, 2024
Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew
December 20, 2024
An Iranian officer blamed for the 2022 killing of an American in Iraq has been charged in New York with federal murder and terrorism crimes
December 20, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have said they will work with a planned new government to oversee territories they control,
December 20, 2024Former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty says that Vladimir Putin spinning Russia's withdrawal from Syria as a victory could be a preview of how he will frame any possible ceasefire with Ukraine.
December 19, 2024
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk stare at each other for over 11 minutes ahead of heavyweight rematch
December 20, 2024
AP PHOTOS: Glimpses of horror emerge inside Syria's Saydnaya prison, dubbed 'The Slaughterhouse'
December 20, 2024Greek authorities say a speedboat carrying migrants capsized Friday morning off the eastern Greek island of Rhodes, leaving eight dead, including a child
December 20, 2024
Sweden will no longer fund the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and will instead provide increased overall humanitarian assistance to Gaza via other channels, the Nordic country
December 20, 2024
With a month left in the White House, U.S.
December 20, 2024
Two journalists working for Kurdish media outlets in Turkey were killed in northern Syria on Thursday after their vehicle was allegedly targeted by a Turkish drone, Turkish media
December 20, 2024Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said on Friday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen
December 20, 2024This greenhouse keeps crops cool. It could prove valuable as our planet bakes
November 28, 2024
George Mason University student charged with plotting mass casualty attack on Israeli consulate in New York
December 20, 2024
Greece has recovered the bodies of eight migrants who fell into the sea after their speedboat collided with a coastguard boat pursuing it off the island of Rhodes on Friday, the
December 20, 2024
For the world, 2024 was riven by conflict on two fronts
December 20, 2024
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian residents said on Friday, and video showed "Revenge", "Death to Arabs" and other slogans had been spray-painted
December 20, 2024The U.N. human rights office will send a small team of human rights officers to Syria next week for the first time in years following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, U.N
December 20, 2024
Israelis are increasingly moving out of the country since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack shattered any sense of safety
December 20, 2024
An Israeli government minister criticised Pope Francis on Friday for suggesting the international community should study whether Israel's military offensive
December 20, 2024
2025 will be a year of reckoning for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country's arch foe Iran.
December 20, 2024
US concedes it has double the number of troops in Syria as Biden sends officials to Damascus
December 19, 2024
The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan
December 20, 2024
Nine Palestinian Americans sued the U.S. government on Thursday, alleging that it had failed to rescue them or members of their families who were trapped in
December 20, 2024
A Palestinian Health Ministry official says Israeli airstrikes slammed into two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City
December 19, 2024
The Pentagon on Thursday said it has 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, more than twice the 900 it has previously said it has, and that the additional
December 19, 2024
The United States has more than doubled the number of its forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group
December 19, 2024
The rematch is days away
December 19, 2024
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of genocide by ‘deliberately’ restricting water in Gaza
December 19, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced $200 million in humanitarian aid for conflict-torn Sudan during his likely final trip to the United Nations while in office
December 19, 2024
U.S. and Arab mediators are working around the clock to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources close to the talks said, while in the Gaza
December 19, 2024
Israeli and Hamas appear close to reaching a ceasefire deal to wind down the war in Gaza
December 19, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration will provide U.S. lawmakers an assessment by Jan. 17 on the credibility of assurances by the United Arab Emirates that
December 19, 2024
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iran and Houthi-related entities, according to the Treasury Department website which listed a number of individuals, companies and
December 19, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday to ask the International Court of Justice for an opinion on Israel's obligations to facilitate aid
December 19, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the downfall of a key ally in Syria had dented Moscow’s prestige
December 19, 2024
Former Assad security forces hand in weapons to new Syrian government
December 19, 2024
The International Monetary Fund stands ready to assist Syria's reconstruction alongside the international community, but the situation on the ground remains
December 19, 2024
Syria will remove all references to the former ruling Baath party from its educational system as of next week but will not otherwise change
December 19, 2024
At least six Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, including militant fighters and an 80 year-old woman shot in the chest by
December 19, 2024By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE -Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of
December 19, 2024
Kurdish fighters who came to Syria from around the Middle East to support Syrian Kurdish forces will leave if a total ceasefire is reached in the conflict
December 19, 2024
Putin promises to ask Assad about whereabouts of American journalist Austin Tice
December 19, 2024
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in a campaign that amounted to “acts of genocide.”
December 19, 2024Residents of a Syrian village near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights say Israeli forces have set up a position in an abandoned army base and are preventing local farmers from accessing their fields
December 19, 2024
Iraq sent back nearly 2,000 Syrian soldiers on Thursday to their homeland after they had sought refuge in Iraq during the advance of rebel forces that toppled President Bashar al-
December 19, 2024
U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vowed on Thursday to fight Turkey and groups it supports in the city of Kobani in northern Syria.
December 19, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that Russia's nine-year intervention in Syria had been a failure, but expressed concern about Israel's military operations there
December 19, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on Syria are violations of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity and "must stop," United Nations Secretary-General
December 19, 2024
Delegations from rival Libyan legislative bodies agreed at talks in Morocco on Thursday to work together with a United Nations mission
December 19, 2024
The tiny island that sits between Europe and Asia
December 19, 2024
There is no talk of a ceasefire deal between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, contrary to a U.S. announcement, a Turkish defence ministry
December 19, 2024Israel launched strikes against ports and energy infrastructure in Houthi-held parts of Yemen on Thursday and threatened more
December 19, 2024
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of 20 people who appeared to have drowned after a shipwreck off the country’s Mediterranean coastline, near a popular point of departure for migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat
December 19, 2024Israel launched two waves of airstrikes on Yemen overnight, killing at least nine people, according to the Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah
December 19, 2024
Israeli military strikes Yemen hours after Houthi attack targets Israel
December 19, 2024
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation in central Gaza ahead of an offensive in the area, even as Israel and the militant group Hamas appear to inch closer to a ceasefire
December 18, 2024
Two late-night traffic accidents in southeastern Afghanistan killed at least 44 people, local authorities said on Thursday.
December 19, 2024When Israel seized the strategic Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, many families were separated by a buffer zone created between the Israeli-controlled region and the rest of Syria
December 19, 2024
The Israeli military said on Thursday that sirens sounded in numerous areas in central Israel after a missile was launched from Yemen.
December 19, 2024
Netanyahu tells Israeli troops to stay in area of Syria’s Mount Hermon until end of 2025, source says
December 19, 2024
The International Federation of Journalists says that 104 journalists and media workers have been killed so far in 2024, with more than half of them perishing during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip
December 10, 2024A severely hobbled Hezbollah was in no position to help defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally, from the lightning-fast insurgency that toppled him
December 14, 2024
The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments has been sold at an auction for more than $5 million
December 18, 2024
The United States, joined by Arab mediators, sought to conclude an agreement between Israel and Hamas to halt the 14-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, where medics
December 18, 2024
The U.S.
December 18, 2024
At least 20 migrants die after boat sinks off Tunisian coast, marking second tragedy in a week
December 18, 2024France said on Wednesday it would host an international meeting on Syria in January and that the lifting of sanctions and reconstruction aid would be conditional on
December 18, 2024
Tunisia's coast guard has recovered the bodies of 20 migrants from Africa after the boat they were in sank off the coast, the national guard said on Wednesday, the second migrant
December 18, 2024King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Fast Facts
February 27, 2015A report by CNN's Clarissa Ward about a freed Syrian prisoner provided some dramatic scenes, but the network has since found that it apparently wasn't all that it appeared
December 18, 2024
The United Nations' senior expert on torture visited the Israeli kibbutz communities attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, for the first
December 18, 2024
Exclusive: Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says returning to prison won’t stop her fight for equality
December 18, 2024
Long-displaced residents of south Lebanon have started returning to their homes after a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group took effect early Wednesday morning
November 27, 2024
Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah returned home Wednesday as a ceasefire takes hold
November 27, 2024
A Pakistani court approved bail for a journalist arrested this week after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march, his lawyer said on
November 30, 2024
The brother of an Israeli man held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants Hamas criticized the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday
December 18, 2024
The German government has doubled its arms exports to Ukraine this year and halved them to Israel compared to 2023, data from the economy ministry showed on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024Some shareholders in Brooge Energy have filed a fraud complaint in the United States against Ernst & Young, alleging the auditor failed to identify fabricated revenues
December 18, 2024
The Assad regime has fallen. Why are foreign powers still targeting Syria?
December 18, 2024
Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the production of the highly addictive drug Captagon
December 18, 2024
The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest level in history, losing more than 10% of value since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November
December 18, 2024
Delegations from rival Libyan institutions resumed talks in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock and prevent the country from sliding back
December 18, 2024A released hostage in Gaza is fighting to save her boyfriend, who remains in captivity
December 18, 2024
An Iranian official says authorities have paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab
December 17, 2024
Hadi al-Bahra, head of the Syrian National Coalition that grouped opponents of Bashar al-Assad during the civil war, said on Wednesday Syria's transitional government should be
December 18, 2024
Israeli soldiers removed a small far-right group of Israeli civilians who had crossed into Lebanon, appearing to put up a tent settlement, in what the military said on Wednesday
December 18, 2024
(This Dec. 17 story has been corrected to fix the number of missing in Syria, provided by the International Commission on Missing Persons, to more than 150,000, in paragraph 11) By Timour Azhari and
December 17, 2024
The mysterious cities of the dead carved into the sides of cliffs
December 06, 2024
Hamas expresses optimism for Gaza deal even as obstacles remain
December 17, 2024
Israel will remain on the strategic Mount Hermon site on the Syrian border until another arrangement is found, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
December 18, 2024
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country's oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of
December 18, 2024
As the war in Gaza rages, Syria's government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, Armenian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem fight a different battle
December 18, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will remain in Syrian territory indefinitely, and that blurs the border with Israel's northern neighbor
December 18, 2024
Russian forces are around 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) to the south of the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, open
August 27, 2024
U.S. prosecutors on Monday charged two men with illegally exporting sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack carried out by Iran-backed militants
December 16, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future
December 17, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, until another arrangement is found "that ensures Israel’s security.”
December 17, 2024
A top U.N. official on Tuesday pushed world powers and Iran to urgently work to restore a 2015 deal that lifted sanctions on Tehran in return for
December 17, 2024
Two Iranian citizens charged in connection to drone strike that killed 3 US soldiers in Jordan
December 17, 2024
Palestinian families sued the U.S.
December 17, 2024
A ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) around the northern Syrian city of Manbij has been extended until the end of this week, State
December 17, 2024
An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free hostages held in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in the coming days
December 17, 2024
United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher met with the commander of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and newly appointed Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir on Monday
December 16, 2024
In a report from Syria, CNN's Clarissa Ward discovers a man in a cell in a Damascus jail who claimed to be an ordinary citizen imprisoned by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. CNN's subsequent reporting suggests the man was a former intelligence officer with the deposed regime, Salama Mohammad Salama, according to local residents.
December 11, 2024
The United States is engaged with a number of United Nations bodies to ensure the Syrian people get answers and accountability when it comes
December 17, 2024
Huge Israeli airstrikes killed extended families in homes in two parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza medics said, with Israel's military saying it
December 17, 2024
Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior has finally got his hands on a big global player award
December 17, 2024
A lawsuit by a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives accuses the State Department of giving Israel a pass when it comes to a U.S. law meant to limit military aid over human rights abuses
December 17, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of bodies could be buried in Syrian mass graves, advocacy group says
December 17, 2024
The U.S.
December 16, 2024
Palestinian Authority security forces have battled Islamist fighters in Jenin for days, as they wrestle to exert control of one of the
December 17, 2024
Switzerland's parliament on Tuesday voted to outlaw Hezbollah, in a rare move by the neutral country that has traditionally followed a policy of promoting international dialogue and
December 17, 2024Concrete movement on an inclusive political transition in Syria will be key in ensuring the country gets the economic support it needs, United Nations
December 17, 2024
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday rejected criticism of her decision to appoint an ambassador to Syria before the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, and she said she
December 17, 2024
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two people and one entity based in the United Arab Emirates, accusing them of being involved in a network that launders millions
December 17, 2024
The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people
December 17, 2024
France raised its flag at its Damascus embassy on Tuesday for the first time in 12 years and European Union officials prepared to engage with the new Syrian leadership, a sign of
December 17, 2024
Shreveport doctor from Syria encouraged by the revolution so far
December 17, 2024
The European Union will establish contacts with Syria's new leadership and reopen its delegation in the country, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and EU Commission
December 17, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that an inclusive administration is needed in Syria and called on the European Union to support the return of Syrians who fled
December 17, 2024
Swiss judicial authorities have suggested the trial of the uncle of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad could be shelved due to the defendant's illness and has asked parties to
December 17, 2024A U.N. refugee agency official said on Tuesday that some 1 million Syrian refugees are expected to return to the country in the first six months of 2025, asking states
December 17, 2024
An Israeli resident of Jerusalem has been arrested on suspicion of being in contact with Iranian intelligence agents as part of a plot to carry out an attack in Israel in return
December 17, 2024
Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and capturing 253
May 14, 2024
Russia's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated by Moscow as terrorist organisations - paving the way for it to
December 17, 2024Israeli lawmakers narrowly approved the country's 2025 state budget in an initial vote despite a rebellion by one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
December 17, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday Israel will have security control over Gaza with full freedom of action after defeating Hamas in the enclave.
December 17, 2024
Pope Francis reveals two attempts on his life during 2021 visit to Iraq
December 17, 2024
The head of a U.N. investigative body has written to Syria's new authorities to express a willingness to engage with them and to travel to Syria to secure evidence that could
December 17, 2024
Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the
December 17, 2024
Germany plans talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, joining the United States and Britain in establishing
December 17, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will take part in a summit of big Muslim countries in Egypt on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, the first visit by an
December 17, 2024
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto headed to Egypt on Tuesday to attend meetings of a group of eight major Muslim developing countries, known as the D-8 Organization for Economic
December 17, 2024
Two men, including a dual Iranian American citizen, have been arrested on charges that they exported sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack in Jordan that killed three American troops early this year and injured dozens of other servicemembers
December 16, 2024
Health officials in the Gaza Strip say more than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas militants
December 16, 2024
The U.S. military said it conducted an airstrike on Monday against a command and control facility operated by the Houthis in Yemen.
December 16, 2024Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it was up to Syrians to determine their own future and called for an "inclusive" government taking account of the country's diverse ethnic and
December 16, 2024
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice,
December 15, 2024
An Israeli technical team is in Doha for working-level talks with Qatari mediators on "remaining issues" in a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, an official with knowledge of
December 16, 2024
The top U.N. official in Libya has announced a new initiative to overcome a three-year deadlock and move the divided oil-rich North Africa nation toward a national election
December 16, 2024
Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
December 16, 2024
Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under attack
December 16, 2024
After months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas appear to be moving closer toward a ceasefire to end their 14-month war
December 16, 2024
The U.N.'s Syria envoy urged an inclusive Syrian transition based on a nine-year-old Security Council resolution during a meeting with the commander of Syria's
December 16, 2024
Women from Sudan's South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, Human
December 16, 2024
Israel's foreign minister accused Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris on Monday of antisemitism as he defended Israel's decision to close its embassy in Dublin over Ireland's
December 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he had a "very good talk" with Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, about the war in Gaza and reiterated his
December 16, 2024
The Israeli military said sirens sounded across central Israel on Monday after a missile was fired from Yemen and was shot down before it crossed into Israel.
December 16, 2024The vault of Syria's central bank holds nearly 26 tons of gold, the same amount it had at the start of its bloody civil war in 2011, even after the chaotic fall
December 16, 2024
The European Union should be ready to ease sanctions on Syria if the country's new leadership takes "positive steps" to establish an inclusive government and respect
December 16, 2024
Syria's Bashar al-Assad issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim base on Dec. 8 as it came under drone attack,
December 16, 2024
U.S.
December 16, 2024
The family of a Turkish-born American human rights activist killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank pleaded with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday
December 16, 2024
Relatives of Palestinians killed by Israel in Khan Younis gathered around their white-shrouded bodies on Monday before carrying them to
December 16, 2024
Russian military has begun large-scale withdrawal from Syria, US and Western officials say
December 16, 2024
The Israeli government decided on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained despite the moderate tone of rebel leaders who
December 10, 2024
Oil futures slipped from the highest levels in several weeks on Monday on weakness in consumer spending in China, the world's largest oil importer, and as
December 16, 2024
Facing terror designations and sanctions, Syria’s new rulers push for international legitimacy
December 16, 2024Russia’s intervention on behalf of former Syrian leader Bashar Assad once turned the tide of Syria's civil war
December 16, 2024
Palestinian security forces have launched a rare crackdown against local militant groups in the northern West Bank
December 16, 2024
Family of American woman killed in West Bank expresses frustration after Blinken meeting
December 16, 2024
Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad said Monday he wanted to stay in the country after rebels captured the capital, but Russia's military evacuated him from their base in western Syria after it came under attack
December 16, 2024
Assad says he didn’t plan to flee Syria, according to presidency Telegram account
December 16, 2024
A northern Virginia man targeted by an FBI sting operation has been convicted on terrorism charges for collecting funds on behalf of the Islamic State group
December 16, 2024Palestinian grandfather whose tribute to slain granddaughter went viral is killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
December 16, 2024
European Union nations have set out conditions for lifting sanctions on Syria
December 16, 2024
A rebel force has deployed to a village in southeastern Damascus to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex in the area and set some apartments on fire
December 16, 2024US private schools group apologizes after criticism of antisemitic remarks during conference
December 16, 2024
For the families of Syria’s disappeared, hope fades but the demand for justice grows
December 16, 2024
Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death
December 16, 2024
BP and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's international investments arm XRG said on Monday they have closed a deal for a new natural gas joint venture in Egypt, as ADNOC
December 16, 2024
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said he is ready to step in if necessary and ensure that Syria gets the wheat it needs in what he said was the unlikely event
December 16, 2024
The United Nations will convene a technical committee of Libyan experts in an attempt to resolve contentious issues and put the country on the path to long-awaited national elections, the
December 15, 2024
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, medics said, and the Israeli military said its air and ground
December 15, 2024
Netanyahu says he spoke with Trump about need for ‘victory,’ as Israeli government approves plan for Golan expansion
December 15, 2024
Israel agreed on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained despite the moderate tone of rebel leaders
December 15, 2024
A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad
December 15, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S.
December 15, 2024
Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services for the first time since the dramatic overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad a
December 15, 2024
Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorate over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials say new Israeli airstrikes have killed over 46 people including children
December 15, 2024
Qatar will reopen its embassy in Syria on Tuesday after it was closed for more than 13 years, the Gulf country's foreign ministry said on Sunday, a week after Bashar al-Assad was removed
December 15, 2024In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians have marked the first Sunday services since Bashar Assad’s ouster in an air of transformation
December 15, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered Israeli troops to prepare to stay over the winter on Mount Hermon, a strategic location overlooking Damascus, adding to signs
December 13, 2024
Israel closes embassy in Ireland, blaming ‘extreme anti-Israel policies’
December 15, 2024
Britain has had diplomatic contact with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that swept Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power last week, British foreign minister David Lammy
December 15, 2024
Israel's inflation dipped in November, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed on Sunday, but staying above target and likely not enough to push
December 15, 2024
A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad
December 15, 2024Israel said on Sunday it would close its Dublin embassy due to the Irish government's "extreme anti-Israel policies" including recognition of a Palestinian state and support for
December 15, 2024
The EU will not lift sanctions on Syria before its new rulers ensure minorities are not persecuted and women's rights are protected within a unified government
December 15, 2024
At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from
December 14, 2024
In Syria's northwestern port town of Latakia, Christian worshippers attending Mass on Sunday at St.
December 15, 2024
France will send a team of diplomats to Syria on Tuesday to assess the political and security situation, the foreign ministry said, without specifying whom they would meet.
December 15, 2024
Syrian refugees across Europe celebrated Assad’s collapse. But an angry migration debate is brewing
December 15, 2024
State-run Israel Aerospace Industries is ready for an initial public offering in Tel Aviv but awaits the go-ahead from the government, IAI chief executive Boaz
December 15, 2024
Syria's de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa said on Saturday Israel is using false pretexts to justify its attacks on Syria, but that he is not interested in engaging in new
December 14, 2024
In the final days leading to his ouster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad complained to Iran's foreign minister that Turkey was actively supporting Sunni rebels in
December 14, 2024
Libyan officials say clashes have broken out between armed groups in a western city, trapping residents in their homes and causing fires in the country’s second largest oil refinery
December 15, 2024The new administration in Syria should be given a chance to govern following their constructive messages, and Turkey stands ready to provide military training
December 15, 2024
Saudi Arabia's annual inflation rate continued to slowly accelerate, hitting 2% in November compared to 1.9% in October, according to government data released on Sunday, again
December 15, 2024
University of Michigan DEI administrator fired over alleged antisemitic comments plans to take legal action, attorney says
December 13, 2024
PEN America has condemned the arrest of Reza Khandan, Iranian activist and husband of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
December 14, 2024Russia is pulling back its military from the front lines in northern Syria and from posts in the Alawite
December 14, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had instructed his government to set up supply mechanisms to deliver together with international organisations and partners
December 14, 2024
Why Israel captured Syria’s tallest mountain just hours after Assad fell
December 14, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up perhaps his last Middle East mission as America’s top diplomat
December 14, 2024
Top diplomats from the United States, the Arab League and Turkey have met in Jordan to discuss Syria’s transition after the fall of Bashar Assad's government last weekend
December 14, 2024
Hezbollah head Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the Lebanese armed group had lost its supply route through Syria, in his first comments since the toppling of President Bashar al-
December 14, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that led the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s government but is designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and others
December 14, 2024
Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree on a plan to deal with global droughts, made longer and more severe by a warming climate
December 14, 2024
Top diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab nations have agreed that a new government in Syria should
December 14, 2024
The Iranian currency extended its fall on Saturday, hitting a new all-time low against the U.S. dollar amid uncertainties about Donald Trump's imminent arrival in the White House and
December 14, 2024
Iranian authorities have arrested a female singer who performed a virtual concert on YouTube, a lawyer said
December 14, 2024An Iranian court has sentenced Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh to 10 years in prison for working at a U.S.-funded radio outlet, his lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghasi said on
December 14, 2024US has had direct contact with Syrian rebel group, Blinken says
December 14, 2024
At least one person was killed as Palestinian security forces clashed with Palestinian militants and set up checkpoints on Saturday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin
December 14, 2024
At least five migrants drowned after their wooden boat capsized off Greece's southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, and witnesses said many were still missing as
December 14, 2024
Israel has arrested more than two dozen suspected Iranian spies over the last several months. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
December 13, 2024
Like millions of Syrians around the world, the thousands who have settled in the Detroit area are excited about the prospect of visiting now that rebels have overthrown the government of ousted President Bashar Assad
December 14, 2024
A Russian cargo plane departed from Russia's air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia for Libya on Saturday, a Syrian security official stationed outside
December 14, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
Iran will not impede U.N. nuclear watchdog's access and inspection of its sites, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Saturday.
December 14, 2024
A hip bone in a blown-out building, part of a spine amid some debris, a few foot bones in a worn-out sock.
December 12, 2024
‘The donkey is gone’: Syrians hit the streets to mark a momentous week
December 13, 2024
A top U.S. military officer visited Israel from Wednesday to Friday, meeting with Israeli defense officials and discussing the situation in Syria, among other
December 14, 2024
CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Damascus, Syria, on the first Friday after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
December 13, 2024
Thousands of Syrians gathered in Damascus’ historic main mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since former President Bashar Assad was overthrown
December 13, 2024
Saudi Arabia says that to host the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer, it will build or renovate 15 stadiums, create a futuristic city and expand airports and public transport in a massive buildout to accommodate millions of athletes, coaches and spectators
December 13, 2024
After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded intelligence and security services appear to have melted away
December 13, 2024
The U.S. military has brought an American who was imprisoned in Syria for seven months out of the country
December 13, 2024
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked the main still-functioning hospital in al-Fashir, in Sudan's North Darfur state on Friday, killing nine people and injuring 20,
December 13, 2024“My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban
December 13, 2024
Blinken makes unannounced trip to Iraq as international community grapples with Syrian regime collapse
December 13, 2024
CNN's Salma Abdelaziz reports on US citizen Travis Timmerman who told journalists that he has been in a Syrian prison for several months after crossing from Lebanon into Syria.
December 12, 2024
Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of Latakia, a former
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
Russia appears to be packing up military equipment at a military air base in Syria, according to satellite images released by Maxar following rebels' overthrow of President Bashar
December 13, 2024
Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital’s historic main mosque, its largest square and around the country to celebrate the end of half a century of authoritarian rule
December 13, 2024
Syrian cyclist Bassel Soufi rode his bike 40 km (25 miles) from the northwestern city of Latakia on Friday to visit the Assad family's
December 13, 2024
Qatar will send its first official delegation to Damascus on Sunday to meet Syria's interim government and discuss reopening the Qatari embassy and enhancing
December 13, 2024
American citizen Travis Timmerman has been flown out of Syria, where he was imprisoned before being released by rebels this week, U.S. officials said on Friday.
December 13, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday caution was needed regarding Syria's prospects after the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule and that the country required "credible,
December 13, 2024
Palestinian medics said an Israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 Palestinians and wounding dozens more
December 12, 2024
The rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - has long been under United Nations sanctions,
December 13, 2024
The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat of power for the Assad family
December 13, 2024
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators say it is too soon to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, an
December 13, 2024
Crucial dam at risk as Kurds and Turkish-backed groups battle in northern Syria
December 13, 2024
Trump has threatened the visas of international student protesters. A post-grad at risk shares his fears
December 13, 2024
Austria's conservative-led government said on Friday it is offering Syrian refugees a "return bonus" of 1,000 euros ($1,050) to move back to their home country
December 13, 2024
Ukraine, a global producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, is ready to supply food to Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister
December 13, 2024“The Bibi Files” started with a sudden leak that turned into a deluge
December 13, 2024
‘Catastrophic’ Israeli barrage hits hospital in northern Gaza, doctor says
December 13, 2024
Russian wheat supplies to Syria have been suspended because of uncertainty about the new government and payment delays,
December 13, 2024
Can Syria’s Islamist rebels govern the country? Their rule in Idlib offers clues
December 13, 2024
Turkey's competition authority has fined Alphabet Inc's Google 2.61 billion lira ($75 million), for taking advantage of its dominant position in ad server services market, the
December 13, 2024
Turkey can step in to resolve disputes between Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, President Tayyip Erdogan told the head of Sudan's sovereign council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in a
December 13, 2024
Tens of thousands of Syrians, mostly Shi'ite Muslims, have fled to Lebanon since Sunni Muslim
December 13, 2024
Rome's Jewish community expressed dismay on Friday after two unions called a nationwide strike to protest against Italy's "support for the genocidal Israeli
December 13, 2024The Red Cross said on Friday it had opened two new telephone hotlines to try to reunite Syrians who have been missing for years with their families, but warned that many cases will
December 13, 2024
The dead, the missing and the reunited: Three tales of Syria’s tortured prisoners
December 13, 2024
THE HAGUE - A Dutch court on Friday rejected a bid by 10 pro-Palestinian NGOs to stop the Netherlands exporting weapons to Israel and trading with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian
December 13, 2024
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed.
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 13, 2024
The US has been involved in Syria in several important ways, including sanctioning Bashar al-Assad’s government for more than a decade.
December 12, 2024
Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran
December 13, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing agreed with Egypt that both nations should promote peace and negotiations to achieve stability in the Middle East, amid several crises
December 13, 2024
Basim Faiz Mawat stood in the Damascus cell that his fellow prisoners used to call the "death dormitory", struggling to believe that the system that abused him
December 13, 2024
Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad
December 12, 2024
The United States is working to bring home an American citizen found on Thursday in Syria, U.S.
December 12, 2024
A fire broke out early on Friday at a private elderly care centre in the Jordanian capital Amman, killing six residents and critically injuring five more, Social
December 13, 2024
It took only a few hours after the fall of Bashar al-Assad for some German politicians to begin suggesting it was time for Germany's million
December 13, 2024
Russia has
December 12, 2024
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged a former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 to 2008 with torture, the U.S.
December 13, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
An American who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system says he was released by the “liberators” who arrived in Damascus a day after the longtime ruler fled the capital
December 12, 2024
Missing US man found in Syria says he was kept in prison after entering country as a pilgrim
December 12, 2024
A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture
December 13, 2024The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob attack in May on pro-Palestinian
December 13, 2024
The White House has announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia
December 12, 2024
Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike flattened a multistory building in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more
December 12, 2024
The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of people trapped or fleeing conflicts
December 12, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
(This Dec. 11 story has been corrected after the company clarified that van der Steene was referring to global trade growth forecast, not global container volumes, in the headline and in paragraph 1)
December 11, 2024
The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country
December 11, 2024
Top U.S. officials are in the Middle East pressing for stability in Syria and an end to Israel’s 14-month war in the Gaza Strip in a last-ditch diplomatic push by the outgoing Biden administration
December 12, 2024
Now covered in ashes and empty bullet casings, the grand mausoleum of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family stood in the eyes of
December 12, 2024
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended Israel's operations in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, saying on Thursday it had a right to defend itself
December 12, 2024
Hundreds of Syrians marched through central Damascus in a funeral procession for one of the country's most prominent anti-government activists, whose body was found after the ouster of President Bashar Assad
December 12, 2024
Paraguay formally opened its new Jerusalem embassy in Israel on Thursday in a ceremony attended by President Santiago Peña and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following
December 12, 2024
A Saudi human rights activist says soccer fans visiting Saudi Arabia for the 2034 World Cup will live in a “bubble” that doesn't reflect real life there
December 12, 2024
Since civil war erupted in Sudan last year, dozens of cargo planes from the United Arab Emirates have landed at a small airstrip in Chad that some U.N. experts and diplomats suspect
December 12, 2024
Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin was in Damascus on Thursday, two sources with knowledge of the visit told Reuters, for what the Syrian information ministry said would be
December 12, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
A Supreme Court prosecutor in Greece has launched an emergency inquiry into the alleged beating and sexual assault of a 16-year-old Egyptian boy at a camp for migrants outside Athens
December 12, 2024U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday he believed a deal on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release may be close as Israel had signalled it was ready and "we
December 12, 2024
The Trump Organization plans to build a Trump Tower in the Saudi capital Riyadh as part of a real estate expansion in the region including in the Emirati capital Abu
December 12, 2024
U.S.
December 12, 2024
France said on Thursday it was too soon for the European Union to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar al-Assad and would first focus on
December 12, 2024
The head of the chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday he would ask Syria's new leaders to grant investigators access to the country to continue work
December 12, 2024
Paraguay has reopened its embassy in Jerusalem, a move that marks a diplomatic win for Israel as it faces increasing international isolation because of the Gaza war
December 12, 2024
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Taliban government minister killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing the previous day
December 12, 2024
The global chemical weapons watchdog has opened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals in the wake of the overthrow of President Bashar Assad
December 12, 2024
Iran has agreed to tougher monitoring by the U.N. nuclear watchdog at its Fordow site dug into a mountain after it greatly accelerated uranium enrichment to close
December 12, 2024
Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of nine migrants while six others are still missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast, a judicial official said on Thursday,
December 12, 2024Why the ‘world has failed’ in the fight against hunger
December 12, 2024
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized
December 12, 2024
There is a chance now for a deal to release all the hostages held in Gaza, including U.S. citizens, Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz told his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin
December 11, 2024
Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
December 12, 2024Pope Francis met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican on Thursday, their first face-to-face encounter in three years, as the pontiff has become
December 12, 2024
A court in Comoros released two women on Thursday after a judge found them guilty of engaging in gay sexual activity and sentenced them for a shorter period than
December 12, 2024Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies "stand ready to support a transition process that leads to credible, inclusive, and non-sectarian governance" in Syria, a
December 12, 2024
Austria's potential forced deportation of Syrian refugees back to their changed homeland can only occur when it is safe, Foreign Minister
December 12, 2024
Syrian rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa - better known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani - told Reuters in a written statement on Wednesday that he would dissolve the security forces of the
December 11, 2024
A crypto venture recently unveiled by U.S.
December 12, 2024
Rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa's Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria's state with the same lightning speed that it
December 12, 2024
At Syria’s border with Lebanon, refugees return home while others flee fearing the worst
December 12, 2024
A suspected Palestinian shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank killed a child overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, Israeli emergency
December 12, 2024
In 2024, conflict escalated in the Middle East.
December 12, 2024
Social media footage allegedly shows a large stockpile of captagon, an illicit drug, in the headquarters of a military division commanded by former president Bashar al-Assad's brother. CNN is unable immediately to verify the location. Captagon is highly addictive and is said to have been an important economic tool for the Assad regime while it was hit with American sanctions.
December 11, 2024
Somalia and Ethiopia said they would work together to resolve a dispute over Addis Ababa's plan to build a port in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which had drawn in regional
December 11, 2024
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing support for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban
December 11, 2024
Saudi Arabia has been officially confirmed by FIFA as host of the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer
December 11, 2024
Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations Security Council that they are ready - if necessary - to trigger a so-called "snap back" of all
December 11, 2024
Footage released by the IDF shows the destruction from Israeli airstrikes on Syria. The IDF said they have conducted about 480 strikes across Syria over two days. This comes a days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime as "a historic day in the history of the Middle East."
December 10, 2024
Saudi Arabia scored a major win in its campaign to attract major sports events to the kingdom when it was formally appointed as the 2034 World Cup host on Wednesday
December 11, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to demand an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire between Israel and
December 11, 2024
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ban
December 11, 2024
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she is suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness over what she calls “excessive pumping” of groundwater
December 11, 2024
The new film “September 5" is a fictionalized account of ABC’s live coverage of the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics
December 11, 2024
Ala Jabeer cried as he prepared to cross from Turkey into Syria with his 10-year-old daughter on Tuesday, thirteen years after the war
December 10, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy record
December 11, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East this week on his 12th visit since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last year
December 11, 2024
US scrambles to quell ISIS resurgence in Syria after fall of Assad
December 11, 2024
The main commander of the fighters who toppled Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that he would dissolve the security forces of the former regime,
December 11, 2024
Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 33 people
December 11, 2024
Lebanon – home to thousands of Syrian refugees – has long suffered at the hands of the Assad family’s 54-year rule.
December 11, 2024The Pentagon on Wednesday flatly dismissed claims by a U.S. lawmaker that Iran might be launching drones over New Jersey from a "mothership" off
December 11, 2024
U.S.
December 11, 2024
Video points to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs
December 11, 2024
The international community needs to establish "several red lines" in any talks with the new Syrian leadership and consider sanctions to ensure a peaceful future for the country,
December 11, 2024
Syrian fighters received about 150 drones as well as other covert support from Ukrainian intelligence operatives last month, weeks ahead of the rebels' advance that toppled
December 11, 2024
Rights organisations strongly criticised FIFA on Wednesday after world soccer's ruling body officially awarded the 2034 men's World Cup to Saudi
December 11, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to face questions for the last time regarding some of the darkest moments of Joe Biden’s presidency: the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
December 11, 2024
There are currently 99 million Swiss francs ($112 million) worth of frozen Syrian assets in Switzerland, most of which have been blocked for years, the Swiss government said on
December 11, 2024Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow first beamed from the television
December 11, 2024
Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell
December 11, 2024
Saudi Arabia will host the men's soccer World Cup in 2034 while the 2030 edition will be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with one-off matches in three South American countries, world
December 11, 2024
One of the Vatican's Nativity scenes raised eyebrows when it was unveiled because it featured a keffiyeh, the Palestinian headscarf
December 11, 2024
When she heard the stunning news that rebels had brought an end to Syria's decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki headed for a prison that had become known as a
December 11, 2024
Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country
December 10, 2024
Dozens of Palestinians are receiving help from an Israeli legal group in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza Strip
December 11, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was the result of a plan by the United States and Israel.
December 11, 2024
A Dutch court has convicted a woman of crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria and sentenced her to 10 years in prison
December 11, 2024Greek police have detained 16 people and confiscated drugs and weapons in an operation aimed at dismantling Turkish criminal groups active in the country, authorities said on
December 11, 2024United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there were signs of hope in Syria following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces over
December 11, 2024
Developments in Syria show that countries that have a strategic partnership with Russia can rely on Moscow only as long as they are of use to President Vladimir
December 11, 2024
Saudi Arabia officially announced as the 2034 World Cup host. Human rights groups warn of ‘unimaginable human cost’
December 11, 2024
Suicide bombing in Kabul kills Taliban refugee minister
December 11, 2024
A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital has killed the Taliban refugee minister and two others in the most brazen attack on a member of the Taliban inner circle since they returned to power three years ago
December 11, 2024
Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 38 Palestinians on Wednesday, most of them in a strike on a house in Beit Lahiya on the northern edge of
December 10, 2024
Syrians lined up at the Turkish border on Wednesday to head home after rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad, speaking of their
December 11, 2024
The Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people were killed in an explosion in the capital
December 11, 2024
Many European countries have put asylum applications from Syrians on hold after rebels seized the Syrian capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia following 13 years of civil war
December 10, 2024
AlpInvest Partners, the secondary investments unit of buyout firm Carlyle Group, and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company are forming a new partnership to provide
December 11, 2024A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for joining Islamic State in Syria and keeping a Yazidi woman as slave.
December 11, 2024
President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum that could serve as a road map for the incoming Trump administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia
December 11, 2024
The Kremlin on Wednesday played down the damage to Russian influence in the Middle East from the fall of Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad, saying that its focus was on
December 11, 2024
Two U.S. congressmen have urged senior American officials to suspend some sanctions on Syria to ease pressure on its shattered economy after the overthrow of
December 11, 2024
Israel's arrest of almost 30 mostly Jewish citizens who allegedly spied for Iran in nine covert cells has caused alarm in the country and points to Tehran's
December 11, 2024
Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stabilise the country, and govern in a way that
December 11, 2024
Suheil Hamwi spent 32 years in a Syrian prison, and now, after an offensive by insurgents that toppled the government of Bashar Assad, he’s finally returned to his home to Lebanon
December 11, 2024
Sudan - for the second year in a row - topped a 2025 watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization on
December 11, 2024
Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days
December 11, 2024
The family of a Turkish-American woman killed by Israel in the Israeli-occupied West Bank will meet U.S.
December 11, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to knock down the corruption charges against him as he took the stand in his long-running trial
December 10, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand for the first time in his long-running trial on corruption charges
December 10, 2024
Nearly a decade after hundreds of thousands of Syrians arrived in Germany, many are now well-integrated and settled in jobs — and tens of thousands have gained German citizenship
December 10, 2024
A car was set alight and two properties spray painted with anti-Israel messages in Sydney just days after an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which is being
December 10, 2024Russia transported Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted as Syria's president by a lightning rebel offensive, very securely to Russia, the country's deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, told
December 11, 2024
Israel says it bombed more than 350 military sites in Syria during the previous 48 hours, targeting “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles” in the country
December 10, 2024
The Biden administration has urged the rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to assume automatic leadership of the country but
December 10, 2024
The U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) and Syria's Turkey-backed rebels reached a ceasefire agreement in the northern city of Manbij through a U.S. mediation "to ensure the
December 10, 2024Syria's new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former
December 10, 2024
Two U.S. Navy destroyers escorting three merchant vessels through the Gulf of Aden defeated an attack by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of vehicle maintenance equipment to Kuwait for an estimated $300 million, the Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024The United States has asked Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group to help locate and free missing American journalist Austin Tice as
December 10, 2024
How Syria’s rebels toppled the Assad regime, in 7 maps
December 10, 2024
Israel strikes Syria 480 times and seizes territory as Netanyahu pledges to change face of the Middle East
December 10, 2024
The Syrian revolution is profoundly significant to those who suffered suffocating repression, surveillance and everyday indignities under a brutal dictator.
December 10, 2024
U.S. troops will be staying in Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad as part of a counter-terrorism mission focused on destroying Islamic State militants
December 10, 2024
Using only the light on their mobile phones, wailing men and women examined disfigured bodies lying in a darkened hospital morgue in Syria's
December 10, 2024
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as markets looked to rising demand in China, the world's largest buyer, and possible tight supply in Europe this coming winter and away from
December 10, 2024
US rushes to uncover new information on whereabouts of Austin Tice after collapse of Syrian regime
December 10, 2024
The Biden administration says the United States will recognize and support a new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, destroys chemical weapons stocks and protects the rights of minorities and women
December 10, 2024
A U.S.-based charity, the World Central Kitchen, fired dozens of Palestinians working for the charity in the Gaza Strip, at
December 10, 2024
U.S.
December 10, 2024
Israel aims to impose a "sterile defence zone" in southern Syria that would be enforced without a permanent troop presence,
December 10, 2024
There are legitimate concerns about the risks of sectarian violence in Syria and a resurgence of extremism in the country, the European Union's new foreign policy
December 10, 2024
The United States on Tuesday laid out its hopes for Syria's political transition following Assad's ouster, saying it would recognize a future Syrian government
December 10, 2024
The vaults in Syria's central bank were left unscathed by looters in the turmoil that briefly engulfed the capital Damascus after the overthrow
December 10, 2024
The United Nations is against any violation of the territorial integrity of Syria, a spokesperson for U.N.
December 10, 2024
CNN goes inside Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison as desperate families look for missing loved ones
December 10, 2024
Biden administration races to secure a ceasefire in Gaza with Trump’s backing
December 10, 2024
At least 127 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Sudan on Monday and Tuesday by barrel bombs and shelling from the warring sides, rights activists said.
December 10, 2024
Syria's new government has told business leaders it will adopt a free-market model and integrate the country into the global economy in a major shift from decades
December 10, 2024
Federal authorities have charged a man with burning an American flag in the nation’s capital during protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July
December 10, 2024
A former British lawyer who became known for bringing lawsuits on behalf of Iraqi civilians accusing British soldiers of ill-treatment was on Tuesday given a suspended sentence for
December 10, 2024U.S. officials are pushing hard to learn as much as they can about Austin Tice, the American journalist captured in Syria 12 years ago, White House spokesperson John Kirby said
December 10, 2024
Turkey's intelligence agency destroyed 12 trucks loaded with missiles and heavy weapons, two tanks and ammunition stores being transported by the Kurdish YPG militia in northeast
December 10, 2024Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was heading to Ankara, Turkey, to attend the third round of talks aimed at defusing tensions with Ethiopia, the state news agency reported
December 10, 2024
Cyprus' defense minister says that bolstering the defense capacity of the east Mediterranean island nation by getting new armaments is critical for a country so close to the war-wracked Middle East
December 10, 2024
The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday said it will vote against FIFA's awarding of hosting rights for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups by acclamation, adding that it had formally
December 10, 2024
Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Tuesday as parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to
December 10, 2024
Lebanon must not become a safe haven for Syrian officials who are responsible for crimes, a leading Lebanese political party warned on Tuesday, citing reports that leading figures
December 10, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand for the first time on Tuesday in his long-running corruption trial, saying he was being hounded
December 09, 2024
Satellite imagery show that Russian naval ships have left Moscow's base at Tartous on Syria's coast and some have dropped anchor offshore following the overthrow
December 10, 2024
Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a "limited" troop presence on the
December 09, 2024
The lower house of Russia's parliament has given initial approval to a long-discussed bill that would clear the way for Moscow to remove the Taliban’s designation as a terrorist group
December 10, 2024
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan wants the country's Taliban rulers to embrace global human rights obligations for the protection and prosperity of future generations
December 10, 2024Turkey's justice minister said on Tuesday the pro-Kurdish DEM Party's application to meet jailed Kurdish militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan was under consideration, without
December 10, 2024
Pope Francis will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the Vatican said, as the Catholic pontiff has become more vocal in his criticism of
December 10, 2024
After racing from Lebanon to Syria to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime and making arrangements for his family to follow, 42-year-old Anas Idrees knew what
December 10, 2024
Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation rate dropped more than expected to 25.5% in November, its lowest since December 2022, data from statistics agency CAPMAS showed on
December 10, 2024
Syria is free of its dictator. The rebels’ biggest challenge now is learning how to govern
December 10, 2024Egyptian authorities say at least eight people have been killed when an apartment building collapsed Cairo
December 10, 2024
The dramatic downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad presents possible danger, and an opening, for neighboring Israel
December 09, 2024
In 2024, people voted in countries that were home to almost half the world's population.
December 10, 2024
The U.N. special envoy for Syria said on Tuesday European nations should not rush to repatriate refugees to the country following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's
December 10, 2024
The Trump Organization, Donald Trump's family business, will have a "very large wall" separating its business activity from the U.S. government, the
December 10, 2024
Iran-backed Hezbollah needs to focus on domestic issues in Lebanon and not the wider region, senior Lebanese Maronite politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday, adding
December 10, 2024
Britain and Cyprus pledged on Tuesday to fight illicit Russian cash flows during a visit by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in an endorsement of the pro-west tilt the Mediterranean
December 10, 2024
US charges two former Syrian officials for allegedly torturing Americans and Syrian nationals
December 10, 2024
For the first time in 50 years, the question of how Syria will be governed is wide open
December 09, 2024
An Israeli strike targeted an air defence installation near Syria's Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said on Monday.
December 09, 2024
Two young men who sympathized with the Islamic State group and a suspected accomplice have been arrested in Germany for allegedly making preparations for an attack
December 10, 2024Austria will support Syrians who want to return now that rebels have seized Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad has fled, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024
Croatia said it had temporarily suspended asylum applications from Syrians, following the lead of other European governments, after rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad after 13 years
December 10, 2024
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 34 Palestinians overnight and on Tuesday, medics said, as Israeli tanks pushed into areas in central and
December 10, 2024
The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic had not been weakened following the fall of its ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Iranian media reported
December 10, 2024
The Swiss government said it was suspending asylum procedures for Syrians until it can better assess the situation in the Middle Eastern country following the capture of Damascus by
December 10, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emannuel Macron are prepared to work with the Syrian rebel groups who ousted President Bashar al-Assad on certain conditions, a
December 10, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stand on Tuesday for the first time in his long-running corruption trial.
December 09, 2024
Just over a year ago, China gave Bashar al-Assad and his wife a warm welcome during their six-day visit to the country,
December 10, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will testify in court for the first time, facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate affairs
December 10, 2024CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports that Bashar al-Assad and some of his family members have arrived in Moscow where they have been granted asylum on humanitarian grounds.
December 08, 2024
Syrian rebels who have ousted Bashar al-Assad and seized the capital Damascus include fighters from different factions, while other groups also hold territory elsewhere.
December 08, 2024
Massive U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State militants in Syria are meant partly as a message to the group and a move to ensure that the insurgents don’t try to take advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad’s government
December 10, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, is making her case on Capitol Hill
December 09, 2024
United Nations Security Council members will work on a statement on Syria in the coming days, U.S. and Russian diplomats said on Monday, after a closed-
December 10, 2024
The Biden administration is seeking ways to engage with Syrian rebel groups who ousted President Bashar al-Assad and is reaching out to partners in the region
December 10, 2024
The Trump Organization says it has leased its brand to two new real estate projects in Saudi Arabia just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House
December 09, 2024
Germany, Britain and France said on Monday they were "extremely concerned" about Iran's acceleration in its capacity for enrichment of uranium, urging Iran to halt and reverse these
December 09, 2024A U.S. indictment unsealed on Monday charged two former high-ranking Syrian officials under ousted President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes, the U.S.
December 09, 2024Israeli strikes have hit suspected chemical and long-range weapons sites in Syria and the foreign minister says the aim is to keep them from rebels who seized Damascus
December 09, 2024
Tens of thousands of people held in Syria's notorious prisons have been freed in the 10 days since the insurgents began their lightning advance across the country that ended with the toppling of President Bashar Assad
December 09, 2024
Two of President-elect Donald Trump's most controversial nominees, Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, sought support from U.S. senators on Monday, but it
December 09, 2024
U.S. prosecutors are accusing two senior Syrian officials of overseeing a notorious Syrian torture center that abused peaceful protesters, including a 26-year-old American woman who was later hanged
December 09, 2024
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, with origins in the terrorist group Nusra Front, spearheaded the rebel advance that ousted longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
December 09, 2024
The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria's Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president's Alawite hometown on Monday and received their support, in
December 09, 2024
Global shares turned lower on Monday as traders focused on U.S. inflation data and chip stocks fell, while Beijing's promise of stimulus
December 09, 2024
Syria’s prime minister says most cabinet ministers are still at work after rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad
December 09, 2024
The State Department says the U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is in Beirut in hopes of collecting information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria for 12 years
December 09, 2024
President Joe Biden says the U.S. government believes missing American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago near the Syrian capital, is alive and Washington is committed to bringing him home after Bashar Assad’s ouster from power
December 08, 2024
The State Department says it isn't actively reviewing the “foreign terrorist organization” designation of the main Syrian rebel group that overthrew of President Bashar Assad’s government this weekend
December 09, 2024
U.S.
December 09, 2024
Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria's leading rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, on Monday, an official briefed on the developments told Reuters, as regional states
December 09, 2024
U.S. officials were pressing on Monday for information about Austin Tice and to secure the release of the American journalist captured in Syria 12
December 09, 2024
Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's prime minister said he had agreed on Monday to hand power to the rebel-led Salvation Government, a day
December 09, 2024
The United States will maintain its presence in eastern Syria and will take measures necessary to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, Deputy Assistant
December 08, 2024
As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were
December 09, 2024
The U.N. refugee chief on Monday called for patience as millions of Syrian refugees displaced by the 13-year civil war weigh a possible return to the country after the toppling of
December 09, 2024
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has yet to decide where to base its global headquarters, its CEO told Reuters on Monday, years after it flagged a decision
December 09, 2024
Italy's government on Monday said it would pause asylum applications from Syria, a statement said, following similar moves from European neighbours after the fall of Syrian president
December 09, 2024European countries put asylum applications from Syrians on hold until further notice on Monday after rebels seized the Syrian capital and President Bashar al-Assad
December 09, 2024
Oil prices climbed more than 1% on Monday on higher geopolitical risk after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and as top importer China flagged its
December 08, 2024
Israel is now more optimistic about a possible hostage deal in Gaza, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday, amid reports that
December 09, 2024
The downfall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, found to have used chemical weapons against his own people on multiple occasions during the civil war, creates an
December 09, 2024
A terrorism trial is underway against a Virginia man accused of funneling tens of thousands of dollars to the Islamic State group
December 09, 2024After decades of brutal rule, Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been toppled. Here’s what you need to know
December 09, 2024
Colonel Cedric Leighton (Ret.) joins CNN's Jessica Dean to discuss the leader of the main group behind Syria’s armed opposition, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, calling the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad a “victory for the entire Islamic nation” in his first public remarks since the rebels captured Damascus.
December 08, 2024Britain paused decisions on Syrian asylum claims on Monday, a government spokesperson said, after rebel forces seized the capital of Damascus over the weekend.
December 09, 2024
CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Damascus, Syria following the downfall of the Assad regime.
December 09, 2024The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after rebel forces swept into Damascus this weekend, shattered Iran's network of influence in the Middle
December 09, 2024
The United States and Turkey reached an agreement to ensure the safe withdrawal of U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) from the northern city
December 09, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to testify for the first time Tuesday in a trial against him on corruption allegations
December 09, 2024
The Kremlin’s failure to prevent Bashar Assad’s swift downfall in Syria has exposed the limits of Russia’s power and dented its international clout
December 09, 2024
Syrian rebel leader’s victory speech holds a message for Iran – and for Trump and Israel too
December 08, 2024University of Michigan regent’s home vandalized in antisemitic attack
December 09, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to step up the country's engagement in the Middle East to support long-term stability, the government said on Monday.
December 09, 2024
Turkey is opening its Yayladagi border gate with Syria to manage the safe and voluntary return of the millions of Syrian migrants it hosts,
December 09, 2024
The Assad regime ruled Syria for 50 years. Here’s how it fell in less than two weeks
December 09, 2024
Who is the leader of Syria’s rebels and what does he want?
December 09, 2024The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D., will be sold in New York this month
December 09, 2024
Germany and several other European countries said Monday they are suspending decisions on asylum claims by Syrian nationals because of the unclear situation in their homeland following the fall of Bashar Assad
December 09, 2024
Opposition forces marched into Damascus on Dec. 8, seemingly ending the half-century rule of the Assad family. But what happens next?
December 08, 2024
Where is Assad? Russia solves the mystery of the Syrian dictator’s escape
December 08, 2024
Syrians strolled through the palaces of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday following his sudden ouster, wandering from room to room, posing for photographs, and with some taking away items
December 08, 2024
Syria is not out of the woods yet and extremism and terrorism remain a main concern, the United Arab Emirates diplomatic advisor to the president said on
December 08, 2024
The global chemical weapons watchdog has said that it reminded Syria of its obligations to comply with rules to safeguard certain toxic chemicals after rebels entered the capital Damascus over the weekend and overthrew Syrian President Bashar Assad
December 09, 2024An alleged drug trafficker wanted for his role in an international cocaine smuggling operation through the port of Antwerp, in Belgium, had been arrested in Dubai
December 09, 2024Palestinian group Hamas congratulated the Syrian people on Monday for achieving their "aspirations for freedom and justice" after toppling President Bashar al-
December 09, 2024
Biden offers a blueprint for US support in Syria, announces airstrikes against ISIS targets
December 08, 2024
Syrian rebels have swept into the capital, Damascus, bringing an end to the long rule of President Bashar al-Assad. Video footage shows the rebels escorting Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali purportedly to a hotel to transfer authority. CNN's Christiane Amanpour analyzes the collapse of the country's regime.
December 08, 2024
Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has put all asylum applications from Syrian nationals on hold until further notice after the toppling Syrian president
December 09, 2024
Key players in U.S.
December 08, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah views events in Syria as a "major, dangerous and new transformation", a senior Hezbollah politician said on Monday, the Iran-backed group's first reaction to the
December 09, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief called on Monday for accountability for perpetrators of abuse under toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, but said there was a "huge
December 09, 2024
U.S.-listed direct lender and private credit manager Golub Capital is opening an office in the UAE's capital Abu Dhabi, it said on Monday, joining dozens of
December 09, 2024U.S.
December 08, 2024
Donald Trump's Middle East envoy warned on Monday during a visit to the region it would "not be a pretty day" if the hostages held in Gaza were not released
December 09, 2024
Four Israeli soldiers who were killed in southern Lebanon were likely killed in an accidental detonation of explosives as they demolished a Hezbollah tunnel laden with weapons,
December 09, 2024The Kremlin said on Monday President Vladimir Putin had made the decision to grant asylum in Russia to Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted as Syria's president by a
December 09, 2024
Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with an iron fist for more than 50 years?
December 08, 2024
After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power when, about six months ago, they
December 08, 2024
CNN's Nic Robertson reports that sources inside Syria are saying forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad protecting Damascus are 'melting away' as rebels are seen on the streets of the Syrian capital.
December 07, 2024
Suspected Israeli airstrikes hit Mazzeh district of Damascus on Sunday, one Lebanese and one Syrian security source said.
December 08, 2024Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting fragility of his own rule
December 09, 2024Britain could rethink its proscription of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a banned organisation, after the group spearheaded the Syrian rebel alliance that helped oust President
December 09, 2024
Iran has opened a direct line of communication with rebels in Syria's new leadership since its ally Bashar al-Assad was ousted, a senior Iranian official told Reuters
December 09, 2024
Five soldiers were killed and another was critically injured in a military helicopter crash in southwest Turkey on Monday, the defence ministry said.
December 09, 2024China's foreign ministry on Monday called for a "political solution" to be found in Syria as soon as possible to restore stability and order, after rebels seized the Syrian capital
December 09, 2024
The fall of Syria’s authoritarian government at the hands of jihadi militants has set off waves of jubilation, trepidation and alarm around the world
December 08, 2024
U.S. investment management firm Polen Capital said on Monday it has received preliminary approval for a license to operate from the ADGM, Abu Dhabi's financial centre, as it
December 09, 2024A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole If you are wondering how markets have reacted to the stunning fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the answer is calmly.
December 09, 2024
Trump has big plans at home, but Syria shows why he can’t escape the world’s problems
December 09, 2024Australian law enforcement authorities have declared an arson attack on a synagogue last week a terrorist act in a decision that increases resources available to the investigation
December 09, 2024
Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled the country
December 08, 2024
Australia on Monday launched an antisemitism task force following an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which police say was likely terrorism.
December 09, 2024Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader who led the stunning insurgency that toppled Syria’s President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image and that of his fighters
December 08, 2024
Russia media say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad has fled to Moscow and received asylum from his longtime ally
December 08, 2024
Syrian rebels seized the capital Damascus unopposed on Sunday after a lightning advance that sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Russia
December 07, 2024
Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told
December 08, 2024
President Joe Biden says the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is a “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but that it's “a moment of risk and uncertainty” for the Mideast
December 08, 2024
The United States will work with partners and stakeholders in Syria to help seize the opportunity that has presented itself
December 08, 2024
Syria's Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia and have been granted asylum by the Russian authorities, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a Kremlin
December 08, 2024
Israel conducted three airstrikes in the Syrian capital on Sunday against a security complex and a government research centre which it has said in the past was used
December 08, 2024-Supporters of rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday have entered some Syrian embassies abroad to hoist their flag, while insurgents also entered the Italian envoy's residence in
December 08, 2024
Syrians poured into the streets in celebration after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule
December 08, 2024
Confusion and fear have swept through Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect and other loyalist communities since his fall, with many questioning how the collapse was so rapid after so many of
December 08, 2024
The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad underscores Russia's weakness and inability to fight on two fronts, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Sunday.
December 08, 2024
Watching with trepidation and glee, Netanyahu orders military to seize Syria buffer zone
December 08, 2024Half a century of rule by the Assad family in Syria has crumbled with astonishing speed
December 08, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza have killed at least 14 people including children, while the bombing of a hospital in northern Gaza has wounded a half-dozen patients
December 08, 2024
Supporters of the Syrian rebels that ousted President Bashar al-Assad entered the Syrian embassy in Athens on Sunday and hoisted the rebel flag from the rooftop, police and a
December 08, 2024
Following are reactions from around the world to events in Syria.
December 08, 2024
Bewildered and elated prisoners poured out of Syrian jails on Sunday, shouting with joy as they emerged from one of the world's most notorious detention
December 08, 2024As the commander of al Qaeda's franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most
December 05, 2024
Lando Norris ended McLaren’s 26-year wait for the Formula 1 constructors’ title as he won the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
December 08, 2024
Syrian rebels claim Damascus ‘liberated’ as Assad regime’s defenses crumble
December 08, 2024
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels entered the northern Syrian city of Manbij after taking control of most of the surrounding area from U.S.-allied Kurdish forces there, a Turkish security
December 08, 2024Israel has watched the rapid overthrow of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a mixture of hope and concern as officials
December 08, 2024
Israeli shelling hit a hospital in northern Gaza, wounding several people, damaging equipment and disrupting surgeries, Palestinian health officials said on
December 08, 2024
Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of Bashar al-Assad, who was no longer in Damascus when rebels captured the Syrian capital on Sunday, ending more than five decades of his family's
December 08, 2024
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of the main group driving Syria’s armed opposition, speaks exclusively to CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh about the goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS).
December 06, 2024
Syrian rebels entered the residence of the Italian ambassador in Damascus on Sunday, but did not harm him or his security staff, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said, calling
December 08, 2024
Saudi Arabia has been communicating with all regional actors on Syria and is determined to do what is possible to avoid chaos following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, a
December 08, 2024
Syria should have an 18 month transition period to establish "a safe, neutral, and quiet environment" for free elections, Hadi Al-Bahra, the head of Syria's main
December 08, 2024
Syria's fate is the sole responsibility of the Syrian people and should be pursued without foreign imposition or intervention, Iran's foreign ministry said on Sunday, after Tehran's
December 08, 2024
The sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad's rule over Syria marks the culmination of a nearly 14-year rebellion and a key moment in a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people,
December 08, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday that Syria's new administration must be inclusive because Syrian people would determine their own future after the ousting of
December 08, 2024
The Kremlin said on Sunday that Russia was open to talks on Ukraine after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for "an immediate ceasefire and negotiations".
December 08, 2024
Crowds have gathered in Syria’s Damascus on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers and the occasional gunfire after opposition fighters entered the capital following a stunning advance
December 07, 2024
Syrians will have to cope with a full-scale civil war alone, Konstantin Kosachyov, deputy chairman of Russia's upper house of parliament said on Sunday, while suggesting that Moscow
December 08, 2024
Syrian refugees across Turkey have jubilantly welcomed the downfall of Bashar Assad’s government with many embracing the chance to return to their homeland
December 06, 2024
Syrian state institutions will be supervised by former Prime Minister Mohammed Jalali until they are handed over, rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani said on Sunday, signalling efforts to
December 08, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Cyprus on Tuesday as part of a regional tour, the island's presidency said on Sunday.
December 08, 2024
Two wars changed Syria’s fortune. What comes next is impossible to know
December 08, 2024Syria's Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable to their breathtaking advance
December 08, 2024
The U.S. government has approved the export of advanced artificial intelligence chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the United Arab Emirates as part of the company's highly-
December 07, 2024Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that suspected arson at a Melbourne synagogue appeared to be an act of terror, a day after his Israeli counterpart said the
December 08, 2024
The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days
December 07, 2024
The last time Syrian President Bashar Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago
December 07, 2024
Syrian rebels said on Sunday they have begun entering the capital Damascus without any sign of army deployments.
December 08, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is jubilant about President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House
December 08, 2024
Syria’s government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters say they entered Damascus following a stunning advance
December 07, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says the U.S. should avoid engaging militarily in Syria, where an opposition offensive is threatening the rule of the country's Russian- and Iran-allied leader
December 07, 2024
Syrian rebels entered suburbs of the city of Homs on Saturday, sources said, pressing a lightning week-long advance as front lines collapse across the country and government forces battle
December 07, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will begin a multi-day visit to the Gulf on Sunday, his first trip to the region since taking office, seeking stronger economic and defence ties
December 07, 2024
Israeli strikes on two southern Lebanese villages killed six people and wounded five, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday, in the latest potential challenge to a fragile
December 07, 2024Iran's acceleration in its enrichment of uranium to close to bomb grade is "extremely serious", has no civilian justification and contradicts Tehran's assertions on wanting serious
December 07, 2024
Hamas released a video claiming to show Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker in captivity on Saturday.
December 07, 2024
Assad regime in Syria may fall in days, US increasingly believes
December 07, 2024
Thousands of people have fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday
December 06, 2024
Syrian government forces abandoned the key city of Homs on Saturday after less than a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-
December 07, 2024
The Marrakech International Film Festival has bestowed its top prize on “Happy Holidays,” a Palestinian drama set in Israel whose screenplay won an award at the Venice Film Festival in September
December 07, 2024
Syrian rebel forces said on Friday their lightning advance reached the central city of Homs, which could position
December 06, 2024
The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted and recorded telephone calls of "very
December 07, 2024
‘Look my son in the eye’: Mother of Israeli hostage in latest Hamas video calls on Netanyahu to do a deal
December 07, 2024
Lando Norris took pole position for the last Formula 1 race of the season alongside teammate Oscar Piastri to put McLaren on the verge of a first constructors’ title in 26 years
December 07, 2024
Muammar Al-Ali knew at once that the bearded man filmed after being freed by Syrian rebels from a prison in Hama when the city fell to them this week was his
December 07, 2024
President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable when his allies were distracted by wars
December 07, 2024
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 34 Palestinians on Saturday, health officials in the enclave said, as Qatar voiced hope of fresh momentum in efforts to
December 07, 2024
Protesters brought down the statue of the late father of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a main square in Jermana suburb, nearly ten kilometers from the centre of Damascus, a witness
December 07, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday the U.S. should not be involved in the conflict in Syria, where rebel forces are threatening the government of President Bashar al-
December 07, 2024
Austin Tice’s family says he is alive and well, but they are deeply frustrated after meeting with Biden administration
December 06, 2024
One of the Middle East’s fastest-growing film festivals opened Thursday in Saudi Arabia, attracting filmmakers and stars from around the world to present over 120 films from 81 countries in Jeddah’s historic Al-Balad district
December 06, 2024
The Israeli military said on Saturday that it struck a Hezbollah fighter in southern Lebanon who posed a threat to its troops, adding it was operating within ceasefire agreements while
December 07, 2024U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said the situation in Syria, where rebels are pressing a rapid advance that is threatening President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power, was creating a new
December 07, 2024
Six Pakistani soldiers and 22 militants were killed in armed clashes in a northwestern region near the Afghan border on Saturday, the army said, as Islamist fighters increase
December 07, 2024What the Syrian rebellion could mean for the balance of power in the Middle East
December 07, 2024
Two strategically-important Russian military facilities in Syria and Moscow's very presence in the Middle East are under serious threat from rapidly advancing insurgents,
December 07, 2024
Syrian rebels claim to take control of Daraa, birthplace of the 2011 uprising, inching closer to Damascus
December 06, 2024
The mother of Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria for more than a decade, says she's confident that her son is alive
December 06, 2024
Qatar has no concerns about U.S.
December 07, 2024
The resurgence of fighting in Syria has brought into focus the role of foreign powers in the country.
December 06, 2024Qatar is engaging with the incoming Trump administration on Gaza after sensing fresh momentum for ceasefire talks following the U.S. election, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign
December 07, 2024
CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh reports from a calm Aleppo, where some Syrians who once fled begin to return, despite their fears the battle is not yet over.
December 06, 2024
Australia's government defended its record on curbing antisemitism on Saturday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused it of anti-Israel policies, following an arson
December 07, 2024
Iran is poised to “quite dramatically” increase its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium
December 06, 2024
Jet engine maker CFM International said on Friday aviation regulators in the United States and Europe have certified a "more durable" high-pressure turbine
December 07, 2024
Iran aims to send missiles and drones to Syria and increase the number of its military advisers there to support President Bashar al-Assad in his battle against
December 06, 2024
Iran is "dramatically" accelerating its enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% level that
December 06, 2024
The mother of Austin Tice, a U.S. journalist captured over 12 years ago in Syria, said on Friday that her family had information that he is still alive.
December 06, 2024
The U.S.
December 06, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a request by Turkey's Halkbank to reconsider a ruling holding that the U.S.
December 06, 2024
Lebanon said it is closing all land border crossings with Syria except for a main one that links Beirut with the Syrian capital Damascus
December 06, 2024
A rapid rebel advance in northwest Syria poses risks for the United States, which was "caught unaware", and other countries including Turkey, Russia and Iran,
December 06, 2024
The Supreme Court has agreed to settle a years-long legal dispute over whether Palestinian authorities can be sued in U.S. courts by Americans killed or wounded in terrorism attacks in the Middle East
December 06, 2024
Jordan has closed its only passenger and commercial border crossing into Syria, the interior ministry said on Friday.
December 06, 2024Supreme Court to review lawsuit from terrorism victims against Palestinian Authority
December 06, 2024
Israeli forces stormed into Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in north Gaza on Friday and expelled some staff and displaced people before withdrawing, and
December 06, 2024Lebanese armed group Hezbollah sent a small number of "supervising forces" from Lebanon to Syria overnight to help prevent
December 06, 2024
An Egyptian military agency has taken over the country's import of strategic commodities, a letter seen by Reuters showed, replacing a decades-old state institution to
December 06, 2024
Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim ruling parties and armed groups are weighing the pros and cons of armed intervention in Syria, viewing as a grave threat the advance of Sunni
December 06, 2024
The United States has opened an investigation into whether NATO ally Spain has been denying port entry to cargo vessels reportedly transporting U.S. weapons to Israel
December 06, 2024Palestinian health officials say an Israeli drone strike on a hospital compound in northern Gaza killed a 16-year-old boy in a wheelchair and wounded at least 12 other people, including medical staff
December 05, 2024
Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen is set to become a father for the first time with his girlfriend Kelly Piquet
December 06, 2024
The collapse of Russia's ally Syria in the face of an assault from rebel groups shows Moscow cannot fight on two fronts, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Thursday
December 06, 2024A U.S.-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters captured the main city in eastern Syria and the main border crossing with Iraq on Friday, taking
December 06, 2024How Syria’s rebel leader went from radical jihadist to a blazer-wearing ‘revolutionary’
December 06, 2024
Israeli President Herzog called Elon Musk to discuss revival of hostage talks, source says
December 06, 2024
Inside the ‘brutal’ logistical challenge of staging a Formula One Grand Prix
December 06, 2024
UNICEF estimates that 2,500 ailing children need immediate evacuation from Gaza for treatment abroad
December 06, 2024
Australian police said on Friday they were looking for two people suspected of deliberately starting a fire at a Melbourne synagogue that injured one and caused
December 06, 2024The United Nations health agency has no indication that a warning was issued before Israel's bombing early on Thursday of north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, the World Health
December 06, 2024Iran sent into space on Friday its heaviest-ever payload using the Simorgh carrier rocket including an advanced module for transferring satellites to higher-altitude orbits, state
December 06, 2024
Up to 1.5 million people could be forced to flee a surge in fighting in Syria, a senior U.N. official said on Friday, as rebels pressed on with their lightning offensive against
December 06, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hoped Syrian rebels will continue their advance against President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria, but voiced concern about what
December 06, 2024
Syrian rebel leader says goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime
December 06, 2024
Chinese fishing vessel under control of suspected pirates off Somali coast, EU naval force says
December 06, 2024
A week after Islamist rebels seized Syria's second-largest city, in a surprise advance deep into government-held territory, Aleppo is slowly
December 06, 2024
Turkey has closely cooperated and coordinated with regional counterparts since clashes began again in northern Syria last week, a spokesman for the defence ministry said on Thursday
December 05, 2024Charles Leclerc and his younger brother Arthur drove side-by-side in matching Ferraris in the first practice session for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
December 06, 2024
Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement
December 06, 2024
The foreign ministers of Turkey, Iran, and Russia will meet in Doha on Saturday to discuss a lightning rebel advance in Syria, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Friday.
December 06, 2024
Growth in the United Arab Emirates' non-oil private sector activity held steady in November, while improved demand conditions boosted growth in new business, a survey showed on
December 06, 2024
A Hamas official says that after a weekslong hiatus international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he was hopeful a deal to end the 14-month war was within reach
December 05, 2024
One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre
December 05, 2024
Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a
December 05, 2024
Doctor Mehdi Davut smiles as he describes his planned return to his homeland Syria for the first time in eight years to see how his aid
December 05, 2024
Nearly 100 former senior U.S. diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have asked Senate leaders to schedule closed-door hearings to allow for a full review of the government’s files on former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
December 05, 2024
Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during its war with Hamas, saying it has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid
December 05, 2024
An Israeli court has rejected a request from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit the number of days each week that he’ll have to testify when he finally takes the the stand in his years-long corruption trial
December 05, 2024Britain, France and Germany have announced that they will keep their sanctions on Iran related to the Mideast country’s atomic program and its development of ballistic missiles
September 14, 2023
Libyan authorities have limited access to the flooded coastal city of Derna to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead following a disaster that has already claimed more than 11,000 lives
September 15, 2023
Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its citizens from a camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of people, mostly wives and children of Islamic State fighters but also supporters of the militant group
September 15, 2023
The International Monetary Fund has warned that Lebanon is still facing enormous economic challenges, four years after the country's historic meltdown began
September 15, 2023
President Joe Biden has announced new U.S. sanctions on “some of Iran’s most egregious human rights abusers” as he marks the anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
September 15, 2023
A delegation from Yemen’s Houthi rebels has flown into Saudi Arabia for talks with the kingdom on potentially ending the yearslong war tearing at the Arab world’s poorest nation
September 15, 2023
An Afghanistan-based nonprofit says it is working with the U.N. to free 18 of its staff, including a foreigner, from Taliban detention
September 16, 2023The U.N. nuclear watchdog has harshly criticized Iran for effectively barring several of its most experienced inspectors from monitoring the country’s disputed atomic program
September 16, 2023
Americans held for years in Iranian custody walked arm-in-arm off a plane into freedom
September 18, 2023
Official tells AP 5 prisoners sought by US in a swap have left Tehran; flight-tracking data show Qatari plane flying out
September 18, 2023Hundreds of soccer fans have stormed into a hotel in Tehran, hoping for a glimpse of star player Cristiano Ronaldo, who arrived along with his Saudi teammates ahead of a game
September 18, 2023
Plane carrying 5 Iranian-Americans freed by Iran in prisoner swap lands in Doha, Qatar
September 18, 2023Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi suggests U.S.-Iran swap "step in the direction of humanitarian action" between 2 nations
September 18, 2023The U.N. nuclear chief says he asked to meet Iran’s president on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting, His goal is to reverse Tehran’s ban on many of the agency’s inspectors
September 18, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he trusts Russia as much he trusts the West
September 19, 2023
Azerbaijan announces an "anti-terrorist operation" targeting Armenian military positions
September 19, 2023Armenian news reports say a cease-fire agreement with Azerbaijan has been reached in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting
September 20, 2023Syrian President Bashar Assad arrives in China on his first visit since the beginning of the war in Syria
September 21, 2023Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran
December 05, 2024
When England soccer player Leah Williamson addressed the United Nations in New York this week she spoke of her recent visit to the world’s biggest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan
September 21, 2023Bahrain military says Yemeni rebel drones kill a Bahraini officer and soldier on Saudi border
September 25, 2023Azerbaijan says it has detained Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist government
September 27, 2023Judicial officials in Lebanon say a military court has sentenced an official with the extremist Islamic State group to 160 years in prison for carrying out deadly attacks against security forces and planning others targeting government buildings and crowded civilian areas
September 27, 2023Streaming site Twitch is embroiled in controversy over creators’ content about its handling of Israel and Palestine
December 05, 2024
Hezbollah has paid out more than $50 million in cash gifts to families affected by war with Israel, its leader Naim Qassem said on Thursday, as the
December 05, 2024
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein will meet his Syrian and Iranian counterparts on Friday to discuss the situation in Syria, the Iraqi state news agency said on Thursday.
December 05, 2024
Oil prices fell on Thursday as investors weighed an ample supply outlook for next year against OPEC+ delaying its planned output increase by three months to
December 05, 2024
Officials say a Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and dozens of his associates on charges of inciting people to attack military and government installations last year
December 05, 2024President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East envoy recently visited Israel and Qatar for high-level talks on landing a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza
December 05, 2024
OPEC+ at its Dec. 5 meeting made further changes to its oil production policy, by delaying a planned increase in output further into
December 05, 2024
Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war in a report published on Thursday, an
December 05, 2024
Amnesty International says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza
December 05, 2024
There is an urgent need for immediate humanitarian access to all civilians in need in Syria and a return to a U.N.-facilitated political process to end the bloodshed, United
December 05, 2024
The Israeli military killed at least 39 Palestinians in strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight, medics said on Thursday, including at
December 05, 2024
British prosecutors said on Thursday they had authorised charges to be brought against two Romanian men over the stabbing of a journalist working for a Persian language media
December 05, 2024Syrian insurgents have swept into the central city of Hama after days of intense clashes with government forces
December 05, 2024
Trucks carrying aid for the Gaza Strip arrived on Tuesday at the only border crossing into the territory not controlled by Israel, a witness and Egyptian security sources said, after
October 17, 2023
The Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is the sole route for aid to enter Gaza directly from outside Israel and the only exit that does not lead to Israeli territory.
October 17, 2023
Jill Biden has used a tour of the United Arab Emirates’ capital to praise efforts to fight cancer and call for more attention on women’s health issues as part of her final solo foreign tour as first lady
December 05, 2024
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties appealed to their respective leaderships on Thursday to open more crossings to facilitate better communication between the
December 05, 2024
Two Romanian men have been arrested in their home country and charged in connection with the stabbing of an Iranian journalist in London this spring
December 05, 2024Syrian rebels capture second major city as army withdraws from Hama
December 05, 2024
Undercover Israeli forces raid West Bank hospital, seize alleged militant from ICU
December 05, 2024
Russia’s top military officer called his U.S. counterpart to give advance warning of Russia’s drills in the Mediterranean Sea
December 05, 2024
World on brink of third nuclear age with few guardrails in place, UK military chief warns
December 05, 2024
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was indicted on Thursday on charges of inciting attacks against the military, a case stemming from deadly anti-
December 05, 2024
Cyprus has taken delivery of an Israeli air defence system, local media reported on Thursday, as the east Mediterranean island taps new markets to upgrade its defence capabilities
December 05, 2024
Sweden has reportedly withdrawn the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of public desecrations of the Quran this year but has put his deportation on hold, saying his life would be in danger if he were returned to Iraq
October 26, 2023
Syria's most powerful rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani urged Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani not to allow the country's Iran-aligned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to
December 05, 2024
Mercedes driver George Russell has accused Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen of bullying and threatening behavior as a dispute between the two at last week’s race in Qatar deepened
December 05, 2024
For many of Lebanon’s 1.5 million Syrian refugees, temporary crossing back into their war-torn homeland was a risk they felt they needed to take.
December 05, 2024
Arab leaders who met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jordan are pushing for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
November 04, 2023
The United States needs to push for a quick end to the Israel-Hamas war and a new process to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian issue or Washington
November 04, 2023
A Palestinian health official said Wednesday that at least 21 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a camp housing displaced people in Gaza
December 04, 2024
Even before last month’s Hamas attacks in Israel, the leader of Hungary had long promoted his country as the safest in Europe for Jews
November 08, 2023
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that the number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip shows that there is something "
November 08, 2023
In first call, Russian defense chief cautioned top US general about large-scale military exercise in Mediterranean Sea
December 05, 2024
The crew of Panama-flagged cargo ship MV ISA STAR have been rescued in the Red Sea after sending a distress signal, the EU's Aspides naval mission said.
December 05, 2024Igor Sechin, the head of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, said on Thursday that the OPEC+ group's decisions
December 05, 2024
Turkey's competition board said on Thursday that it has decided to terminate an investigation of Meta Platforms regarding data-sharing between social media platforms Threads and
December 05, 2024
The U.S. embassy in Lebanon on Friday said there had been 12 hours of calm along the Blue Line marking the border with Israel, where daily exchanges of fire had been taking place
November 24, 2023
Azerbaijan has accused Western diplomats of unacceptable interference in its judicial system after they called for the release of jailed human rights activists.
December 05, 2024
The Israeli military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas' tunnel complex in Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday citing unnamed U.S. officials, adding that the
December 12, 2023
Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.
December 20, 2023
Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza will likely go on for many months, the country's military chief said on Tuesday.
December 26, 2023
Iran’s jailed Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi allowed to leave prison for 21 days after surgery
December 04, 2024
Photographer for German press agency killed in Syria as rebels push for control of key city
December 05, 2024
Iran has expanded its network of partners across the Middle East. But it isn’t a simple case of Tehran dictating the terms of the alliance.
January 23, 2024
Iran's hardline Guardian Council has banned former pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani from standing again in an election in March for the Assembly of Experts, which appoints and can
January 24, 2024
Israeli military says strike in Gaza may have prompted Hamas to execute six hostages
December 04, 2024
Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Palestinian medics said further Israeli
December 04, 2024
Oil futures fell nearly 2% on Wednesday as investors awaited an imminent OPEC+ decision on production cuts, while a larger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude stockpiles
December 04, 2024
A Palestinian health official said Wednesday that at least 21 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a camp housing displaced people in Gaza
December 04, 2024
‘They killed him on the spot.’ Israel targeted Gaza soup kitchen chef in drone attack, brother says
December 04, 2024
The U.S. military has strived over recent decades to present itself as religiously diverse, welcoming personnel of all faiths – or no faith – as it seeks cohesion and mutual respect in the ranks
December 04, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had retrieved the body of Itay Svirsky, who was taken hostage on October 7, 2023, and then killed in Hamas captivity, according to a
December 04, 2024Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Israel had pressured Hamas to the extent that a hostage deal with the Iranian-backed group might be possible.
December 04, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been significantly degraded militarily by Israel, but the Iran-backed group will likely try to rebuild its stockpiles and forces and pose a longterm
December 04, 2024
The deaths of six Israeli hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza in August were probably linked to an Israeli airstrike against Hamas near where they were being held, the
December 04, 2024
The leader of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group has toured the seized city of Aleppo in a surprise visit, the first since the insurgents captured large parts of the city over the weekend as fierce fighting intensifies in the government-led counter-offensive in northern Hama
December 04, 2024
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Adam Boehler would be his special presidential envoy for hostage affairs.
December 04, 2024
Six Iranian dissidents have been sentenced to death for charges ranging from belonging to an opposition group, collusion against the state and armed rebellion, according to a ruling
December 04, 2024U.S.
December 04, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has named a healthcare executive to serve as his administration’s lead hostage negotiator at a time when the U.S. is trying to secure the release of prisoners in Gaza and other regions around the world
December 04, 2024
The Israeli military has rescued two hostages from the Gaza Strip early in a dramatic operation that Palestinian hospital officials say also killed at least 67 Palestinians in airstrikes
February 12, 2024
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
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