The White House is attributing the outbreak of violence in the Middle East between the Syrian government and Israel to a “misunderstanding” over ethnic grudges. Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed ...

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Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy ...

Syria announced that its army had begun to withdraw from violence-hit Sweida on Wednesday, following a wave of Israeli ...

Al Arabiya offices in Syria were damaged after an Israeli strike on Damascus on Wednesday.Tension escalated in Syria as ...

Tension escalated in Syria as Israel renewed its strikes on Sweida while also attacking Syrian army headquarters in Damascus ...

Clashes raged in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze ...

Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza ...

A fresh ceasefire agreement has been brokered between Syrian government officials and leaders of the Druze religious minority on Wednesday - the second truce in as many days, after the first collapsed ...