Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Keep dreaming’
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Iran executes man over espionage
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year's election
19 October 2025, 02:53 AM
Nuclear deal with west / Iran ‘terminates’ all mechanisms
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Just a wasteland’
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Israeli forces kill 11-year-old in West Bank
17 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Palestinians touring Europe to boost state recognition
15 October 2025, 18:58 PM
Aid trucks roll into Gaza
15 October 2025, 18:50 PM
Iran says Trump's call for peace 'at odds' with US actions
14 October 2025, 06:08 AM
Turkish rescuers search infamous Syria jail
A team of Turkish rescuers began an in-depth search of Syria’s infamous Saydnaya prison yesterday, a spokesman for Turkey’s AFAD disaster management agency told AFP.
16 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Golan settlements: Israel seeking to ‘expand borders’
Turkey yesterday denounced an Israeli plan to double the population living in the occupied and annexed Golan Heights as a bid to “expand its borders”.
16 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza death toll surpasses 45,000
Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 45,028 Palestinians and wounded 106,962 since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said yesterday.
16 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli strike kills 1 in south Lebanon
Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli drone strike in the south killed one person yesterday, the latest deadly raid despite a more than two-week ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
14 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Iran won’t impede IAEA access
Iran will not impede the UN nuclear watchdog’s access and inspection of its sites, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization said yesterday.
14 December 2024, 18:00 PM
18 killed as Israel strikes shelters, aid point in Gaza
At least 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from shelters and aid storages.
14 December 2024, 18:00 PM
US, regional diplomats meet to discuss Syria crisis
Top diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab nations met in Jordan yesterday for talks on Syria as regional and global powers scramble for influence over whatever government replaces ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
14 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Syrian Shias flee to Lebanon
Tens of thousands of Syrians, mostly Shia Muslims, have fled to Lebanon since Sunni Muslim groups toppled Bashar al-Assad, fearing persecution despite assurances from the new rulers in Damascus that they will be safe, a Lebanese official said.
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli strike kills 33 Palestinians
An Israeli strike on a post office sheltering Gaza residents killed at least 33 Palestinians and wounded 50, medics said, and the Israeli military said yesterday it had been targeting a senior Islamic Jihad member.
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Prepare to remain’ in Syria buffer zone through winter
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz yesterday ordered the military to “prepare to remain” throughout the winter in the UN-patrolled buffer zone between Israeli and Syrian forces on the strategic Golan Heights.
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
G7 to meet on Syria, govt pledges 'rule of law'
G7 leaders will meet virtually Friday to discuss the momentous changes underway in Syria, where the interim government has vowed to institute the "rule of law" after years of abuses under ousted president Bashar al-Assad
13 December 2024, 04:52 AM
Israel continues pounding Syria
Israel’s Air Force yesterday continued to pound Syria, striking ports and missile warehouses in Latakia and Tartous provinces, as Israeli ground troops moved deeper into the Syrian Golan Heights, effectively expanding their occupation.
12 December 2024, 19:12 PM
Israeli strikes in Syria illegal: UN experts
Israel’s strikes on Syria following the fall of longtime president Basher Al-Assad violate international law, United Nations experts said yesterday, branding Israel’s attempts to “preemptively disarm” its foes as “lawless”.
11 December 2024, 18:53 PM
Al-Bashir now Syrian caretaker PM
An Israeli military incursion into Syria has reached about 25 km (16 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syrian security sources and media reports said yesterday, after Israel seized a buffer zone in southern Syria and launched air strikes on Syrian army and air bases overnight.
10 December 2024, 20:26 PM
World cautious as post-Assad era begins in Syria
Damascus stirred back to life on Monday at the start of a hopeful but uncertain era after rebels seized the capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule.
9 December 2024, 18:36 PM
With Assad gone, Middle East battle lines are redrawn
The Syrian strongman had for nearly 14 years held off an uprising that many believed had been exhausted. But his downfall followed a series of battlefield convulsions for other allies of Iran
9 December 2024, 02:46 AM
‘Seize’ Syria buffer zone
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday ordered Israeli military to "seize" a UN-patrolled buffer zone between Israeli- and Syria-controlled Golan Heights.
8 December 2024, 22:35 PM
Golani, the man who toppled Assad
Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria’s president Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaeda and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance.
8 December 2024, 18:08 PM
Assad flees to Moscow as rebels take Damascus
Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad yesterday fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his “oppressive” rule.
8 December 2024, 18:02 PM
Ex-al Qaeda chief Abu Mohammed al-Golani led overthrow of Syria's Assad
As 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 powerful faction fighting President Bashar al-Assad
8 December 2024, 15:04 PM