JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it will not allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza until hostage Arbel Yehoud is released. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Hamas has violated ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan held a telephone conversation late on ...

President Trump and his advisers are working on plans to put tariffs on foreign goods, arguing that doing so will boost manufacturing in the U.S. and balance trade with countries like China. However, ...

As it struggles to rebuild Syria’s police force and maintain law and order, the new regime of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is integrating Islamic teachings in the training of recruits.

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could be an informer. “See those ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

The local rebel commander hands over a thin plastic shopping bag so full of live grenades it seems likely to split under the weight.

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...