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Ireland last week announced support for South Africa’s legal action against Israel in International Court of Justice

Updates on U.S. engagement in Syria transition, Gaza conflict, and UN aid challenges in the Middle East.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria

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Following its new attacks on Syria, Israel’s leaders and much of its media tout the creation of a new Middle East.

Updates on Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, US Secretary of State's Middle East visit, Israel's presence in Syrian buffer zone, Indonesia's evacuation from Syri...

The Middle East nation are the sole bidders for the finals in 12 years’ time

How will the fall of the Assad regime reshape geopolitical dynamics worldwide?

An Israeli bomb hangs suspended in air, caught in a split-second image of a suburb in Beirut before it slams into an apartment building, passersby already bracing for the explosion.

France joins calls for Israeli withdrawal, arguing it is in violation of the 1974 disengagement deal

Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan's rule, analysts told AFP. "The Israeli government... is operating on a worst-case scenario with little to no nuance," said Yossi…