Syria

Gazan health ministry says almost 41,000 had been killed in Israel’s military action since beginning of war last October

Yusuf was among 73 people taken on board the Médecins Sans Frontières Geo Barents ship off Libya

Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows to tackle exploitation of system while AfD co-leader demands five-year asylum moratorium

Pentagon says US committed to taking ‘every possible step to defend Israel’ after killing of senior Hamas and Hizbullah figures

Aidan O’Leary was described as a ‘true leader’ by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Missile attack on Majdal Shams exposes the sensitive situation of the Levant’s Druze community across the entire region as Israel vows retaliation for deadly strike

Jewish state exhausted after almost 10 months of Gaza fighting but Israeli officials expect ‘limited but significant’ military operation

One Syrian soldier killed and three injured in Israeli attacks against military sites and residential building in Damascus early on Sunday

Agnieszka Holland’s powerful depiction of border-crossing has angered Polish authorities and refugee agencies in equal measure

After the Syrian war began in 2011, 1½ million Syrian refugees entered Lebanon. Initially the nation was welcoming, but since the economy collapsed in 2019, anti-refugee sentiment has grown

The intensity and persistence of images I am currently seeing from Gaza surpasses anything I have ever witnessed

Site in Beirut originally established for 500 families but is now home to 18,000 Palestinians and 40,000 Syrians

Germans worry about immigration, Poles about Ukraine, Danish and French about climate change, and the British about Covid

Natural disasters leave further 7.7 million homeless, pushing total number of displaced people to 75.9 million

Syrians fleeing the Assad regime face an increasing risk of violence and deportation when they reach Lebanon

Cyprus has led EU effort to halt people trafficking from Lebanon

In the News podcast: New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch reflects on the lessons not learned from the 1994 Rwandan genocide

US and Israel on high alert as general says Iran will decide when and how to stage a revenge operation

133 soldiers will arrive in Dublin Airport this afternoon after six months on Israel-Syria border

The Kurdish Syrian refugee has enriched the Irish music scene and embodied a powerful message since 2016

Consulate attack could trigger direct confrontation between Iran and Israel

President Ebrahim Raisi says strike in Syrian capital will ‘not go unpunished’

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander killed in alleged Israeli strike on Syrian capital

Israeli air strikes hit Hizbullah weapons depot and Syrian army compound close to the airport in Allepo, killing at least 44

Strike hit near Hizbullah weapons depots, says monitoring group, while Syrian state media says civilians among the dead

Incident came after up to 60 people reported to have died last week in the Mediterranean after setting out from the Libyan coast

About 280,000 pieces of equipment, worth close to €23m, to be shipped home by sea

The Israel-Hamas conflict has had a significant impact on the Undof mission in the Golan, which involves more than 130 Defence Forces personnel

Defence Forces personnel chief and second most senior officer Major General Adrian Ó Murchú travels to the Golan to rally the troops and promise better times ahead

About 130 Defence Forces soldiers stationed along border, in the Golan area, as part of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (Undof)

Colum McCann and Diane Foley tell the story of her son’s kidnapping by Islamic State

International Protection applicants are arriving to find themselves living on the street. But ‘at least there are no bullets’

Even before July’s road tragedy which killed Dlava and her best friend the Mohamed family has faced a lifetime of adversity

Attack directed at Kataib Hizbullah militia members comes amid growing regional tensions linked to Israel-Hamas war

Iraqi prime minister’s office says Friday’s attacks killed 16 people, including civilians

US responds to Sunday’s drone attack at a remote US base in Jordan that killed three American soldiers

Iran-backed network triggers fears that Israel-Hamas war could spread within region

Dozens more were injured in incident in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, with president blaming Iran-backed militias

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says least six people died in attack on multi-storey building

Long-standing conflicts involving both Iran and Turkey reignite in addition to lingering Gaza crisis