The quiet resumption of operations at a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip last month marked a small but significant step ...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor ...

Despite international mediation efforts, Sudan's civil war has continued throughout 2024, deepening the humanitarian crisis.

A key Syrian rescue group and an activist told AFP on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for ...

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one ...

Hamas and Israel traded accusations on Wednesday over delays in finalising a ceasefire and hostage release deal, after both ...

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

Hundreds of Christians in war-ravaged Gaza City gathered at a church on Tuesday, praying for an end to the war that has ...

This Christmas season, like last year's, the Christian community in Gaza are spending the holiday mourning incalculable ...

Syria's new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country's rebel groups on their dissolution ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark another solemn ...