Turkey's military is ready to "support" Syria in its battle with Kurdish fighters in the northwestern city of Aleppo if Damascus asks for help, a defence ministry official announced Thursday.
The Lebanese army has announced that it has completed the first phase of its plan to disarm Hezbollah, covering the area between the Israeli border and the Litani River.
The United Nations has announced that decades-long discrimination and segregation of Palestinians by Israel in the West Bank were intensifying, and called on Tel Aviv to end its "apartheid system".
Civilians were fleeing Kurdish neighbourhoods of Aleppo on Wednesday after the Syrian military declared them "closed military zones", amid ongoing fighting with Kurdish-led forces in the northern city.
Tel Aviv and Damascus have agreed to set up a joint mechanism for sharing intelligence and coordinating military de-escalation under the supervision of the United States.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar arrived in Somaliland for the first high-level diplomatic visit after Tel Aviv recognised the breakaway region’s independence, triggering condemnation and concerns that Palestinians may be forcibly expelled by Israel there.
Clashes between government troops and Kurdish-led forces in the north Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least five people on Tuesday, with both sides trading blame over who started the fighting.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa appeared in a video widely circulated using the country's new currency, after his interior ministry denied reports of a shooting incident at his palace.
Syrian authorities on Monday refuted President Ahmed al-Sharaa had been targeted in any security incident, while two sources told AFP a shooting took place in Damascus's presidential palace last week.
A Syrian delegation including Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani was taking part in a new round of talks with Israel on Monday, state news agency SANA reported, the first in several months.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has praised the "decisive and fateful" roles of the late Iranian Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in protecting Iraq's security, saying that Iranian support was a cornerstone of Iraq’s victory over the Daesh terrorist organization.
The British Ministry of Defence announced it cooperated with France on Saturday night to strike an underground facility in Syria that had likely been used by the Islamic State group to store weapons.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on dozens of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Several countries in the Middle East and Asia have called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded Palestinian enclave.
Syria claimed Thursday a suicide bomber who killed a security forces member in Aleppo on New Year's Eve was in the Islamic State group (ISIS, ISIL or Daesh), which planned attacks on churches and gatherings.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that 2025 marked the worst humanitarian and demographic year for Palestinians, driven by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip and escalating violations in the occupied West Bank.
Saudi authorities have executed 356 people in 2025, according to an AFP tally, setting a new record for the number of inmates put to death in the Persian Gulf kingdom in a single year.
Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, with the Middle East as a whole the most dangerous region for media professionals, according to a report by a global journalist union.
Hamas has condemned Israel's decision to ban several aid groups from operating in the Gaza Strip, urging the international community to prevent what it described as a move targeting Palestinians.
The European Union warned Wednesday that Israel's threat to suspend several aid groups in the Gaza Strip from January would block "life-saving" assistance from reaching the population.
The United Nations has warned that Israel’s recent actions against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees risk depriving millions of people of basic services, including education and healthcare.
Israel has warned that it would suspend from January several aid organisations operating in the Gaza Strip for failing to provide details about their Palestinian staff, accusing two Doctors Without Borders employees of links to militant groups.
The foreign ministers of 10 nations have expressed "serious concerns" about a "renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation" in the Gaza Strip, saying the situation was "catastrophic".
