8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (408+ words) Hamas said on Saturday it remained ready to proceed with a US-backed Gaza peace plan and urged pressure on Israel, which insists it did not agree to the latest part of the deal. Hamas informed US President Donald Trump's Board…...

14+ hour, 51+ min ago   (797+ words) Palestinian Christians call themselves "living stones" and say they have lived continuously in the Holy Land for the last 2,000 years. Maybe not for much longer, believes Reverend Mitri Raheb. "If the current conditions continue, there will not be a single…...

7+ hour, 57+ min ago   (386+ words) Lebanese authorities have detained a former senior Syrian military officer who commanded the army’s 17th Division on crimes that he committed under ousted President Bashar Assad. The charges include “murder, acts of torture, and crimes against humanity.” The arrest of Maj....

12+ hour, 48+ min ago   (740+ words) An Israeli strike on a Lebanese army bulldozer in Mansouri, wounding a soldier, heightened tensions in South Lebanon amid explosions and shelling that hit towns and water facilities. The escalation coincided with fallout from the seventh round of Rome talks,…...

13+ hour, 25+ min ago   (807+ words) The seventh round of Lebanese-Israeli talks in Rome concluded after three days without agreement on a new pilot zone, while discussions continued over a verification mechanism and other issues. Further rounds are expected as tensions persist on the ground in…...

17+ hour, 45+ min ago   (850+ words) A bombing on a minibus in Jaramana, a city east of Damascus with a sizable Druze population, has thrust the area back into Syria’s spotlight, wounding 14 people, three of them critically. The attack came just hours after Jaramana’s sheikhs and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (855+ words) An Iraqi military spokesman said security forces were ready to stop attacks on neighboring countries from Iraqi territory, as Baghdad presses ahead with a plan to bring all weapons under state control by September 30, which is also the deadline for…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (537+ words) Israeli reservations are holding up a meeting of mediators in Cairo to discuss implementation of new understandings reached more than a week ago on the Gaza ceasefire agreement, a well-informed Palestinian source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Friday. The Gaza ceasefire…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (878+ words) For six months, 70-year-old Bassam Musleh searched desperately for a pharmacy or clinic that could fill his prescription for blood pressure and other heart medications. Public dispensaries were out of stock, he said, and he couldn't afford the private ones....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (716+ words) Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said Damascus is working to end the presence of weapons outside state control, arguing that dismantling armed formations operating beyond the legal framework is essential to Syria’s stability and could help bolster security across the…...