The Palestinian group Hamas has announced readiness to free Israeli American captive Edan Alexander and hand over the remains of four other dual nationals, after holding indirect negotiations with Tel Aviv.
The leader of the Daesh terror group has been killed by Iraqi security forces with support from the US-led coalition, the country's prime minister has confirmed.
The United States and Israel have discussed with three East African governments the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Sudan, Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland, according to US and Israeli officials quoted by The Associated Press news agency.
The CEO of Iran’s Tavanir Company has announced that Iraq will continue importing electricity from Iran based on a bilateral agreement between the two countries, despite the US decision to revoke Iraq’s exemption for importing Iranian electricity.
Columbia University leadership made a series of concessions to the Donald Trump administration following an extraordinary letter that listed nine demands it expected the university to make if it did not want its federal funding to be pulled.
Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts have announced in a new report.
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has inked a draft constitutional declaration on Thursday, establishing a five-year transitional period for the country.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem has welcomed United States President Donald Trump’s apparent retreat from his proposed permanent displacement of more than two million Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip.
Lebanon announced it has received four hostages taken by Israel during its war with Hezbollah, as Tel Aviv said it has agreed to engage in talks to demarcate its border with Lebanon.
The US Department of Education (DOE) has sent letters to 60 universities, warning them of "potential enforcement actions" if they fail to "protect" Jewish students on campus.
Israeli soldiers have killed at least four Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced.
Entire families including women and children have been killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of recent sectarian killings by rival groups, the UN human rights office has announced.
Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4% in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by U.S. ally Israel's war in Gaza and the resulting college campus protests, according to a report by a Muslim advocacy group on Tuesday.
The Palestinian movement Hamas stressed that Israel’s threats to restart war on the Gaza Strip are futile, saying ceasefire talks are the only way for Tel Aviv to save the lives of its captives.
Testimony from the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip paints a brutal picture of Israeli detention, including accounts of torture, starvation and the poor conditions prisoners are forced to endure.
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that the situation in the Gaza Strip is “deteriorating very, very quickly”, more than a week after Israel again halted all supplies from entering the besieged enclave.
Syria’s new rulers have ended a security operation in the country’s western coastal region, home to loyalists of former leader Bashar al-Assad, the Ministry of Defence in Damascus has reported.
Syria’s interim government announced it has reached a landmark deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to integrate the group into state institutions.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) have detained a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University, the student workers’ union has announced.
Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen has ordered an immediate halt to electricity supply to the Gaza Strip, threatening the functioning of the blockaded enclave’s desalination plants amid an ongoing aid shortage in the holy month of Ramadan.
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has ordered an investigation after hundreds of people were killed in fighting between security forces and fighters loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous.
