At least 20 people were killed in clashes Sunday in Syria’s Daraa governate a day after an explosion killed a group of children, a rights monitor said. Daraa was the cradle of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad but it returned to government control in 2018 under a cease-fire …

Slowly but surely, the Islamic State terror group seems to be regaining its footing in Syria, launching new and brazen attacks against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Just-released data from U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces across the Middle East and South Asia, puts the number of …

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a report today detailing ISIS activity in central Syria in 2023 showing that ISIS attacks, high quality attacks, and civilian and military casualties rose dramatically last year—and were often more aggressive than in recent years. The 215 ISIS attacks chronicled by CEP often utilized …

The war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, which has been ongoing for six months and has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, shows no signs of ending, according to the German news agency dpa. Negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of hostages …

The Israeli army has withdrawn all its ground forces from the southern Gaza Strip except for one brigade, said an army spokesman. The army did not immediately provide further details. It is unclear whether the withdrawal will postpone the entry of the army into the city of Rafah in southern …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israel will continue with its goal of eliminating all Hamas brigades, including those in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. Commenting on his statements, a Hamas spokesperson told Al Jazeera that this calls into question the purpose of the ongoing negotiations in …

Senior Iranian military officials have continued to suggest that they will carefully calibrate Iran’s response to Israel’s killing of senior IRGC commanders in Syria. This careful approach aims to avoid a direct war with Israel. Iranian Armed Forces Chief of the General Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri said on April …

Twenty-five years after the start of NATO’s air strikes on Yugoslavia, no exact casualty figures have ever been established and no official comprehensive list of all the civilian victims’ names exists – allowing the death toll to be manipulated by politicians. On March 24 last year, in his speech at …

The 1994 Washington Agreement ended fighting between Bosniak and Croat forces, but in the historic city of Mostar, people’s everyday lives and the local political scene are still troubled by the legacy of the wartime past. Only a few passers-by are to be seen early in the morning on what’s …

This past week Hezbollah continued its attacks on northern Israel, attacking military and civilian targets 43 times. In response, the IDF attacked Hezbollah facilities along the border and in Ba’albek. in one of the attacks a senior operative in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force was killed. Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah secretary general, delivered …