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Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, is Assad's rule about to collapse?

Dec. 07, 2024 11:34 AM EST

BEIRUT (AP) — The last time Syrian President Bashar Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago, at the height of the country’s civil war, when his forces lost control over parts of the largest city, Aleppo, and his opponents were closing in on the capital, Damascus. Back then,...

An Israeli strike kills a person in Lebanon, further shaking the tenuous ceasefire

Dec. 04, 2024 02:54 AM EST

NABATIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli forces carried out several new drone and artillery strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday, including a deadly strike that the Health Ministry and state media said killed one person, further shaking a tenuous ceasefire meant to end more than a year of fighting with...

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital wound 3, Netanyahu vows 'iron fist' in Lebanon

Dec. 03, 2024 17:20 PM EST

Israeli drone strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital on Tuesday, wounding three medical staff at one of the few hospitals still partially operating in the northernmost part of Gaza, the facility’s director said. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya said the drones were dropping bombs, spraying shrapnel at the...

Israeli strikes kill 11 in Lebanon after fire exchanges with Hezbollah that test ceasefire’s limits

Dec. 03, 2024 03:48 AM EST

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce...

Middle East latest: Israel and Hezbollah trade fire, threatening Lebanon ceasefire

Dec. 02, 2024 18:46 PM EST

Hezbollah fired into a disputed border zone held by Israel on Monday. The militant group said the volley, its first during the truce, was a warning shot in response to what it called repeated Israeli truce violations. Israeli leaders threatened to retaliate and within hours,...

Israeli military says Hezbollah fired into a disputed border zone, the group's first attack since a ceasefire began

Dec. 02, 2024 10:35 AM EST
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military says Hezbollah fired into a disputed border zone, the group's first attack since a ceasefire began.

What to know about sudden rebel gains in Syria's 13-year war and why it matters

Dec. 02, 2024 10:22 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive that captured Aleppo, one of Syria's largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. The push is the rebels' strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing...

Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, but tense ceasefire holds

Dec. 01, 2024 10:53 AM EST

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli jets Sunday launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported. The attacks come days after a US-brokered...

Family returns to their Lebanese city to find a crater where their 50-year-old home once stood

Dec. 01, 2024 07:01 AM EST

BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — In eastern Lebanon's city of Baalbek, the Jawhari family gathered around a gaping crater where their home once stood, tears streaming as they tried to make sense of the destruction. “It is heart-breaking. A heartache that there is no way we will ever...

An Israeli strike in Gaza kills World Central Kitchen workers. Israel says 1 was an Oct. 7 attacker

Nov. 30, 2024 17:37 PM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, including employees of World Central Kitchen. The charity said it was “urgently seeking more details” after Israel's military said it targeted a WCK worker who was part of the...