Middle East

Winter Storm Batters Gaza, Flooding Tent Camps and Exposing Gaps in Aid Efforts

Rains drenched Gaza’s tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two months of a ceasefire have failed to sufficiently address the spiraling humanitarian crisis there. Families found their possessions and food supplies soaked inside their tents. Children’s sandaled feet disappeared under ...

10:49 Et December 12, 2025

Aid flow into Gaza falls short of the ceasefire terms, Israeli figures show

Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling far short of the amount called for under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire, according to an Associated Press analysis of the Israeli military’s figures as ...

11:36 Et December 11, 2025

A year after Bashar Assad fled, Syria struggles to heal

A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the capital threw open its ...

11:53 Et December 8, 2025

Qatari leader says the Gaza ceasefire is at a critical moment

Qatar’s prime minister on Saturday said the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down, with the remains of just one Israeli hostage still held by militants ...

11:08 Et December 6, 2025

Israel says it will start letting Palestinians leave Gaza through reopened border crossing

Israel on Wednesday said it will start letting Palestinians leave Gaza through a reopened border crossing, complying with a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal even though it also said that ...

11:56 Et December 3, 2025

Israeli fire kills 4 Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank

Israeli forces on Tuesday killed a journalist and a man near a refugee camp in Gaza, health workers said, and shot dead two suspected Palestinian assailants in the West ...

12:11 Et December 2, 2025

Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial in Israel

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the ...

12:01 Et December 1, 2025

Ten people killed during Israeli raid in southern Syria, Syrian state media reports

Ten people were killed by Israeli fire in a village in southern Syria on Friday, Syrian state media reported, while the Israeli military said five soldiers were wounded ...

10:58 Et November 28, 2025

Israel has handed over 15 more Palestinian bodies, hospital officials in Gaza say

Hospital officials in Gaza said Wednesday that Israel had handed over 15 more Palestinian bodies, completing the latest swap of the ceasefire as the first phase of the agreement nears a conclusion. Officials at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis confirmed receiving the bodies Wednesday morning from the Red Cross and said ...

11:52 Et November 26, 2025

Houthi court in Yemen hands down death sentences to 17 people accused of spying

A Houthi-controlled court in Yemen’s capital convicted 17 people of spying for foreign governments and sentenced them to death in the latest development in a yearslong Houthi crackdown on local ...

12:21 Et November 23, 2025
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