Behind the fall of Aleppo
Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in...
Year: 2024
Hamas Hits Back at Trump’s ‘Hell to Pay’ Threat
A senior official of the Palestinian Hamas movement has shared with Newsweek the group's response to a stark warning issued by President-elect Donald Trump over...
New Yorker Planned ISIS Terror Attacks: FBI
A man was arrested in New York this month for allegedly attempting to provide ISIS with information and distributing guidance on how to build explosives...
Syrian rebels have taken Aleppo, the country’s second biggest city
Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s...
The Hezbollah threat: Weakened, but not gone
‘Why doesn’t Israel just finish the job?” This is the question everyone has been asking since Israel announced its agreement to a US-brokered ceasefire with...
US deepens sanctions on Iran’s ‘shadow’ oil fleet
The Biden administration on Tuesday ramped up sanctions on Iran, targeting 35 entities and vessels it said carried illicit Iranian petroleum to foreign markets as...
Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Syria’s shock insurgency?
Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his public image and the insurgency he commands, renouncing longtime...
‘Fled to Turkey’: Hamas leaders are ‘in Erdogan’s hands’
Senior members of Hamas’s abroad leadership left Qatar last week for Turkey, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Sunday, after Doha said...
American forces strike, destroy several weapons that fired rockets, mortars near US-led coalition base in Syria
American forces on Tuesday morning attacked and destroyed several weapons including rocket launchers and a tank operating near a U.S.-led coalition base in eastern Syria,...
In a ruined Hezbollah stronghold, supporters question the costs of war
The bodies were laid out in long rows, hundreds of them, mostly fighters but civilians too, in plywood boxes poking out from heaps of earth....
Israeli and Hezbollah strikes test limits of ceasefire
The latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah is testing the limits of last week’s already fragile ceasefire deal. Hours after Hezbollah fired two...
Al-Qaida-linked group claims major advance in Syria
An al-Qaida-linked rebel group operating in Syria says it launched a major offensive and has gained territory in the country's northwest, but the Syrian army...