Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Israel for talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu amid questions over Gaza's future.

In a ceremony surrounded by masked Palestinian militants and rubble from the Gaza war, Hamas on Saturday released three ...

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I was the first to depart because I actively participated in the Syrian uprising of 2011. At the age of 19, I was arrested, and upon my release, the fear of repeating the harsh experience of ...

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Russia lost a key ally when the Syrian President was ousted by Islamist rebels last month. NPR visited a Russian air base in western Syria to examine how Moscow will fare under Syria's new rulers.

HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, BYLINE ... The Khmeimim base was built in 2015 in a village of the same name. From here, the Russians helped Bashar al-Assad fight opposition forces in his 13-year civil ...

Images taken in December 2024 and January 2025 in the Gaza Strip [Courtesy of Hadeel Awad] A ceasefire has finally come. After 15 months of relentless genocidal war, we are finally able to breathe ...