The Latest Breaking News from Damascus

An Israeli strike on Damascus killed five people in a building where "Iran-aligned leaders" were meeting on Saturday, a war monitor said, as regional tensions soar over the Israel-Hamas war.

Iran confirms killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members as tensions flare up amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

The Israeli-Hamas war has already driven around 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people from their homes, leveling the northern part of the territory and heightening fears about a similar fate for the south as Israel’s air and ground offensive widens

The tension escalates as Iran vows revenge after an alleged Israeli airstrike in Damascus claims the life of a top military advisor. Stay tuned for updates...

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A team from Israel’s Mossad intelligence services has been ordered home after talks in Qatar about another pause in fighting in Gaza reach a ‘dead end’

Despite the dire need for humanitarian aid in Gaza, there would be no deliveries across the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Friday, according to the communications director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees

French judicial authorities have issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two army generals alleging their involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including in chemical attacks in 2013 on rebel-held Damascus suburbs, lawyers for Syrian victims said

Activists say the Syrian leader’s denunciation of Israel’s actions is hypocritical — and those actions mirror his own.

The ongoing violence between Israel and Palestine has triggered a surge of memories for a Delhi family; half a century ago, their lives had been permanently changed by the 1973 Yom Kippur War

This harrowing documentary follows life among starving Palestinians in the Yarmouk camp as Syria’s civil war raged about them