Middle East
Syrian forces to re-enter Suwayda to quell renewed sectarian fighting
By GHAITH ALSAYED AP Renewed clashes broke out overnight between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria, and ...Dozens killed as massive fire rips through multistory commercial building in eastern Iraq
A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others ...Syria announces ceasefire after sectarian clashes, but more fighting and abuse alleged
By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL, Associated Press Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key ...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 ...














