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Militant Islamist groups have expanded their presence in Africa and more than doubled fatalities linked to violent activities ...

The war that erupted after the Hamas-led massacre of October 7, 2023, has become the most transformative conflict in the ...

Damascus: The US special envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, on Monday voiced concern over fresh outbreaks of violence in Sweida in southern Syria and Manbij in the northeast, calling for dialogue to ...

I believe in the necessity of the Jewish people to have their own safe, secure homeland. And while I have never thought ...

The risk is that it rises into something much larger that then presents a much greater threat on the global scene,' one expert told Newsweek.

Syria clashes erupt, Gaza tensions rise, and Ukraine hits back. Start your week with the key defense and security headlines ...

Syrian state-run news agency SANA accused Druze groups loyal to influential spiritual leader Hikmat al-Hijri of breaching the ...

Israel’s friends must speak with one voice: End the famine in Gaza. Drop any talk of annexation. Protect the civilian ...

Yet Israel didn’t translate its military success into active diplomacy; if it had, the region and Israel’s position in it might look very different today. Israel may not have thought it had a choice ...

“‘He’s a madman’: Trump’s team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes,” Axios’s Barak Ravid breathlessly reported on July ...

Hundreds protested in Syria’s Druze region, demanding army withdrawal and aid from Jordan after deadly clashes left thousands ...