Middle East
Sectarian clashes in Syria leave at least 30 dead and scores injured
At least 30 people were killed and around 100 were injured in sectarian violence that exploded in Syria’s southernmost As-Suwayda Governorate, the ...59 Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli airstrikes or shot dead while seeking aid
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press At least 31 Palestinians were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution ...Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in Iraq to launch disarmament
By Ako Rasheed Reuters Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq ...Kurdish PKK militants to hand over first weapons in ceremony in Iraq
Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants will hand over their weapons in a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a ...Gazans reject Trump’s displacement plan despite death and destruction
By Hussam Al-Masri Reuters Whenever Mansour Abu Al-Khaier stares across Gaza, all the 45-year-old Palestinian man sees is death and destruction in ...5 Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza and 18 Palestinians dead in Israeli strikes
By TIA GOLDENBERG, FATMA KHALED and WAFAA SHURAFA,Associated Press Five Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack in Gaza, the Israeli military said ...Israel bombs ports, power plant in Yemen as Houthis fire more missiles
By Yomna Ehab and Mohammed Ghobari Reuters Israel has attacked Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports and a power plant, the Israeli ...Israel continues Gaza strikes as negotiators head to Qatar
By WAFAA SHURAFA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB, Associated Press Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said on Sunday, ...Hamas says ready to start Gaza ceasefire talks ‘immediately’
By Roland Lloyd Parry AFP Israel was mulling its response on Saturday after Hamas said it was ready to start talks “immediately” ...Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as scores more are killed in Gaza
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas Reuters Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead ...














