The Gaza Peace Council, chaired by Donald Trump, began to take shape on Saturday as several world leaders were invited to join it, including those from Egypt, Argentina, Canada and Turkey. The...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Saturday escalated his rhetoric against Lebanese figures calling for a state monopoly over weapons, and thus the full disarmament of his...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region, on Saturday called for an “immediate de-escalation” in Syria during a phone conversation,...
Rallies were held on Saturday in several Turkish cities with predominantly Kurdish populations, including Batman and Siirt, in support of besieged Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, according...
The Kurds on Saturday accused the Syrian government of “betraying” an agreement on the withdrawal of Kurdish forces from parts of northern Syria and reported heavy fighting with the Syrian army....
Kurdish authorities said in a statement that they imposed a curfew on Saturday in Raqqa province, which they control in northern Syria, after government forces threatened to bomb Kurdish positions...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday warned that “powerful forces” are aligning to undermine international cooperation, during a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi on Saturday welcomed Donald Trump’s proposal to revive negotiations over Ethiopia’s megadam on the Nile, after more than a decade of tensions and failed...
In Iran, street mobilization is waning, according to the U.S. think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which tracks protests against the regime.On Jan. 14 and 15, the ISW recorded none — a...
U.S. President Donald Trump has “invited” his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to sit on the Gaza Peace Council, Turkey’s communications office announced on Saturday. “On Jan. 16, 2026,...
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Saturday that authorities should “break the back of the seditionists,” and blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for the “victims” of a crackdown on...
One evening in 1976, while he was working late in his studio in Zouk Mosbeh, two armed militiamen broke in and stationed themselves beside him all night, watching for their enemies to pass by… At...
He's little more than a site manager, yet he's stepping in as the head of the highest-ranking Palestinian authority in post-war Gaza. Ali Shaath, former Palestinian deputy minister, has...
On Jan. 10, residents of Beirut felt a 4.1-magnitude tremor, with an epicenter about 60 kilometers off the coast at a depth of roughly 10 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The...
Two Syrian soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack carried out by Kurdish forces as troops were deploying in an area east of Aleppo in northwestern Syria, the army said. The Kurdish-led...
The appointment of Gracia Azzi as head of the Directorate of Customs on Thursday sparked widespread debate, as she is being prosecuted in the investigation into the 2020 Beirut port explosion and a...
18:47 Beirut Time Syria: Curfew imposed in Maadan area in Raqqa countryside “until the end of military operations,” says SANA Raqqa’s Information Directorate said internal security...
The U.S. envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, and the head of Syrian Kurdish forces, Mazloum Abdi, arrived Saturday in Erbil for talks, a source in the Kurdistan Region presidency told AFP. According to...
The leader of Yemen’s separatist movement has vowed to continue working toward an independent state, addressing his supporters on social media for the first time since his disappearance following...
Everything seemed to indicate that an U.S. attack on Iran was a dream opportunity for Israel. After years of threatening to strike Iran's nuclear program, which it described as an...
Syria’s Kurds said Saturday that a presidential decree issued the previous day, making Kurdish an official language and guaranteeing national rights for the minority, was a positive first step but...
The Syrian army announced Saturday morning that it had taken control of the city of Deir Hafer, east of Aleppo, which Kurdish forces agreed to evacuate the previous day following recent clashes in...
The son of Iran’s former shah, who says he is ready to lead a democratic transition in his country, declared Friday that he is convinced the Islamic Republic will fall in the face of mass protests...
Donald Trump on Friday unveiled the list of members of the Gaza Peace Council, which he will chair. The council will include, among others, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former British...
Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez announced on Friday that she has dismissed Alex Saab from the government, the businessman widely seen as one of ousted President Nicolás Maduro’s key...
Cybersecurity monitoring NGO NetBlocks said on Saturday that it had detected a “very slight” recovery in internet activity in Iran after more than 200 hours of shutdown linked to the protest...
A protester was arrested after climbing onto the roof of the Iranian Embassy in London and removing a flag, police said on Friday evening. “During the demonstration that took place this evening...
Kurdish forces will withdraw Saturday morning from an area in northern Syria that the army has ordered them to evacuate, their leader Mazloum Abdi announced Friday. “At the request of friendly...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
