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
Syrians stroll through Assad's palaces, take furniture and ornaments
Groups of Syrians strolled through the palaces of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday following his ouster, wandering from room to room, posing for photographs, and with some taking items of furniture or ornaments..Video obtained by Reuters showed people entering the Al-Rawda Presidential
8 December 2024, 13:38 PM
Syria's Jolani: from jihadist to pragmatist
Jolani heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is rooted in Syria's branch of Al-Qaeda
8 December 2024, 05:39 AM
Syria's Assad: the president who led a bloody crackdown
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad oversaw a merciless crackdown on a pro-democracy revolt that morphed into one of the bloodiest wars of the century
8 December 2024, 04:22 AM
Syrian PM says ready to cooperate with any leadership chosen by the people
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to "cooperate" with any leadership chosen by the people and for any handover process, after rebels said President Bashar al-Assad had fled the country
8 December 2024, 03:39 AM
Saudi royal slams ‘genocidal’ Israel, welcomes Trump
A senior Saudi royal termed Israel “genocidal” and an “apartheid” state on Saturday, as he called on incoming US President-elect Donald Trump to bring peace to the Middle East.
7 December 2024, 19:42 PM
Talks ‘likely’ to resume in coming week
A new round of negotiations for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal will “most likely” begin in the coming week, a source close to the Hamas delegation told AFP yesterday.
7 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Is it the end of Assad?
Rebels on a lightning advance through Syria yesterday said they have begun to encircle Damascus as government forces denied they had withdrawn from areas near the capital.
7 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Goal of offensive is to overthrow Assad
Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published yesterday.
6 December 2024, 18:00 PM
North gaza hospital: Israeli strikes kill 29 Palestinians
Gaza’s civil defence agency said 29 people were killed by Israeli strikes around a major hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia yesterday.
6 December 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Israel committing genocide in Gaza’
Amnesty International yesterday accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war last year, saying its new report was a “wake-up call” for the world.
5 December 2024, 18:38 PM
Gaza has most child amputees per capita globally
The United Nations said yesterday that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, after more than a year of Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
2 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Syria’s Aleppo slips from govt control
Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo has fallen from government control for the first time since the country’s conflict began more than a decade ago, a war monitor said yesterday, after a surprise advance by rebels.
1 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Syria war monitor says rebels control most of Aleppo
A monitor of Syria’s war said yesterday that rebels controlled most of Aleppo, reporting Russian air strikes on parts of Syria’s second city for the first time since 2016.
30 November 2024, 18:00 PM
32 killed as Israel pounds Gaza
At least 32 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza overnight and into yesterday, Gaza medics said.
30 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Half of Aleppo now under Syrian jihadist control: war monitor
Jihadists and allied factions have taken control of "half of the city of Aleppo", the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
30 November 2024, 03:56 AM
Syria jihadists, allies enter Aleppo city
Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies reached Syria’s second city of Aleppo yesterday, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government.
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel will do ‘everything’ to stop Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel would do “everything” to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon after Iran’s top diplomat warned it could end its ban on developing one if Western sanctions are reimposed.
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza in anarchy
The Gaza Strip has descended into anarchy, with hunger soaring, looting rampant and rising numbers of rapes in shelters as public order falls apart, the United Nations said yesterday.
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM
40 Palestinians killed as Israel pounds Gaza
Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians overnight and yesterday in the Gaza Strip, many of them in the Nuseirat refugee camp at the centre of the enclave, medics said, after Israeli tanks pulled back from parts of the camp.
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Hezbollah, Israel trade blame over truce violations
Hezbollah and Israel traded accusations that their ceasefire had been breached yesterday, a day after a truce went into effect halting more than a year of fighting in Lebanon.
28 November 2024, 18:00 PM