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ISIS Carries Out Deadly Attacks on Pro-government Forces in East Syria

Arab World An aerial picture shows farmers harvesting strawberries in a field in Bidama village in Syria's opposition-held northwestern Idlib province on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)

ISIS Carries Out Deadly Attacks on Pro-government Forces in East Syria

Suspected members of ISIS attacked three posts for Syrian government forces and pro-government gunmen early Friday killing at least 13, an opposition war…

Asharq Al Awsat
Arab World A view of a street in the city of Omdurman damaged in the year-long civil war in Sudan, April 7, 2024. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

Violence Shuts Crucial Aid Corridor into Sudan's Darfur

Violence around the city of al-Fashir in Darfur, Sudan, has blocked a recently opened humanitarian corridor from Chad and time is running out to prevent…

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Arab World A young boy looks on as relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing, mourn near their corpses in the yard of the al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement. (AFP)

Rafah Operation Could Be a ‘Slaughter’, Warns UN Official

An Israeli incursion in Rafah would put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Gazans at risk and be a huge blow to the humanitarian operations of the entire…

Arab World An armed Kurdish militant of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) wearing a mask and a scarf covering his head aims his weapon in Diyarbakir in September 2015. (AFP)

Türkiye Says It Killed 32 Kurdish Militants in Northern Iraq

Türkiye’s military has "neutralized" 32 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) across various regions of northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry…

Arab World  People walk near posters calling for the release of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, in Jerusalem, May 3, 2024. (Reuters)

Hostage Held in Gaza Dies as Israel and Hamas Work on a Ceasefire Deal

Dror Or, a 49-year-old held captive in Gaza, has died, the Hostages Families Forum said Friday. Or marks the 38th hostage killed, the forum said. He was one…


Arab World A view of a street in the city of Omdurman damaged in the year-long civil war in Sudan, April 7, 2024. (Reuters)

Attack on ICRC Convoy in Sudan’s South Darfur Kills Two Drivers, Injures Three

An attack by gunmen on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sudan's South Darfur killed two drivers and injured three other…

Arab World An Internal Security Forces patrol in Beirut (ISF Media).

Lebanon: TikTok Gang Bust Exposes Criminal Exploitation of Social Media

Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces arrested a gang of TikTokers who lure children and molest them, a criminal act shedding light on networks exploiting social…

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Arab World US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin listens during a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense budget hearing Fiscal Year 2025 on Capitol Hill, April 17, 2024, in Washington. (AP)

US Defense Secretary Says There Was No Indication Hamas Planning Attack on US Troops

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday he did not see any indication Hamas was planning any attack on US troops in Gaza but added adequate measures…

Arab World Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Nechervan Barzani. (AP file photo)

Political Agreement in Iraq Leads to Postponement of Kurdistan Elections

Shiite and Kurdish forces have reached an agreement to postpone the parliamentary elections in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region that were set for June, said Iraqi…

Fadhel al-Nashmi (Baghdad)
Arab World Iraqi soldiers during a mission to crack down on ISIS remnants. (Iraq Defense Ministry)

Iraq Cracks Down on ISIS Remnants in 3 Cities

Iraq’s national security service announced on Thursday the arrest of 20 members of an ISIS cell in the Nineveh, al-Anbar and Kirkuk regions. During…

Hamza Mustafa (Baghdad)
Arab World Senior US officials expressed their government’s support for the modernization of Jordan’s fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft (AP)

Washington Pledges Continued Efforts to Improve Jordan’s Air Defense

The Pentagon said on Thursday that a meeting of the US-Jordan Joint Military Commission (JMC) in Washington discussed “the destabilizing impacts of ongoing…

Asharq Al Awsat (Washington)
Arab World Lebanese parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) shows a map in his office showing the expansion of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon to visiting French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne (L) during their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, 28 April 2024. (EPA)

Berri to Asharq Al-Awsat: French Proposal Has Some Acceptable Points, Others Need Amendment

Lebanon’s parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Thursday he will reply on Friday or Saturday to France’s latest proposal over how to resolve tensions with…

Mohamed Choucair (Beirut)
Arab World The strike hit a building operated by Syrian security forces, a security source told Reuters.(Reuters file photo)

Syria Says Israeli Strike Outside Damascus Injures Eight Troops

An Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus injured eight Syrian military personnel late on Thursday, the Syrian defense ministry said, the latest such…

Arab World  An Israeli soldier directs a tank, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, in Israel, May 2, 2024. (Reuters)

Iraqi Militant Group Claims Missile Attack on Tel Aviv Targets, Source Says

The so-called “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, a group of Iran-backed armed groups, launched multiple attacks on Israel using cruise missiles on Thursday, a…

Arab World A man tapes off the area as rescuers and medics search for dead bodies inside the damaged Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital and the area around it following a two-week operation, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City April 8, 2024. (Reuters)

Prominent Gaza Doctor Dies in Israeli Prison

A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said on Thursday, blaming…

Arab World A picture shows a view of a devastated neighborhood in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 2, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement. (AFP)

Hamas Will Send a Delegation to Cairo to Keep Up Ceasefire Talks

Hamas said Thursday it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on ceasefire talks, in response to Egypt's latest proposal. In a…

Arab World In this Monday, April 23, 2018 photo, Syrian refugee children play outside their family tents at a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

EU Announces 1 Billion Euros in Aid for Lebanon amid a Surge in Irregular Migration

The European Union announced on Thursday an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to strengthening border…

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Arab World Palestinian security forces and gunmen have exchanged gunfire several times in the last year, but deaths are rare. (Reuters file photo)

Palestinian Security Force Kills Gunman in West Bank 

Palestinian security officers killed a gunman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Palestinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and which…

Arab World FILED - 31 December 2023, Palestinian Territories, Rafah: Palestinian children receive food prepared in a charity kitchen. Photo: Mohammed Talatene/dpa

UN Report: It Would Take Until 2040 to Repair all Homes Destroyed so Far in Gaza

If the Israel-Hamas war stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed in nearly seven months of Israel’s…

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Arab World Syrian refugees prepare to leave Lebanon toward Syrian territory through the Wadi Hamid crossing in Arsal on Oct. 26, 2022. (Getty Images/AFP)

EU to Unveil Economic Aid for Lebanon to Stop Refugee Flows

The European Union will reportedly offer economic aid for Lebanon close to one billion euros to stop the flow of Syrian refugees, dpa news agency said on…

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Arab World A Syrian man walks across an empty street at Shehel after the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) imposed their control over the town, in Deir ez-Zor province, eastern Syria, 09 September 2023. EPA/AHMED MARDNLI

Syrians Accuse Russia of Hitting Hospital in New Complaint Filed with UN Rights Committee

A Syrian man and an aid organization have accused Russia of violating international law by deliberately bombing a hospital in northern Syria in 2019, in a new…

Asharq Al Awsat
Arab World Sudan's General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan salutes as he listens to the national anthem after landing in the military airport of Port Sudan on his first trip away following the crisis in Sudan's capital Khartoum since an internal conflict broke out, in the city of Port Sudan, Sudan, August 27, 2023. (Reuters)

Burhan Agrees to Declare State of Emergency in Khartoum

Acting governor of Khartoum Ahmed Othman Hamza announced on Wednesday that army commander and head of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had agreed…

Arab World  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza Sigrid Kaag at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on May 1, 2024. (AFP)

Blinken Tours Kerem Shalom Aid Crossing as Tank Fire Rings Out from Gaza

Tank fire echoed from the Gaza strip on Wednesday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited an aid inspection point, where he heard from Israeli…

Arab World Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings as they return to Khan Younis after the Israeli military pulled out troops from the southern Gaza Strip, 30 April 2024. (EPA)

Hamas Official Says Blinken Ceasefire Comments Are Attempt to Pressure the Group

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is blaming the delay of a Gaza ceasefire agreement on the…

Arab World Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces party, gestures as he speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Maarab east of Beirut, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP)

Geagea Says Hezbollah’s Fighting with Israel Has Harmed Lebanon

The leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces blasted the Shiite group Hezbollah for opening a front with Israel to back up its ally Hamas, saying it has harmed…

Arab World Egyptian workers are seen in front of the new headquarters of Egypt's parliament in the New Administrative Capital (NAC) east of Cairo, Egypt June 21, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

Egypt Denies Claims of Violations in Prisons

Egypt denied claims made by the Muslim Brotherhood group regarding what it said were "violations" inside one of the Egyptian prisons. In a statement issued by…

Asharq Al Awsat (Cairo)
Arab World  French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne speaks during a press conference at the Pine Palace, which is the residence of the French ambassador, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP)

French FM Makes Unscheduled Cairo Stop as Gaza Truce Talks Intensify

France's foreign minister arrived in Cairo on Wednesday on an unscheduled stop during a Middle East tour as efforts to secure a truce between Israel and Hamas…

Arab World In this photo provided by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), a Sea Viper missile is  launched from HMS Diamond to shoot down a missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis from Yemen, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (LPhot Chris Sellars/MoD Crown copyright via AP)

US Military Destroys Houthi Uncrewed Surface Vessel in Yemen

The US military said in a statement that it destroyed on Tuesday an uncrewed surface vessel in an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthis. According to the…

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Arab World Hezbollah members are seen at a military drill during a media tour in Armata, Lebanon. (Reuters)

Proliferation of Arms among ‘Resistance’ Factions Fighting Israel Adds to Lebanon’s Security Fears

The military activity of five Lebanese and Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon has raised concerns in Lebanon over the post-war phase when the country…

Nazeer Rida (Beirut)