Middle East

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say the toll from U.S. airstrikes targeting oil port jumped to 74 people killed and 171 others wounded.

At least 53 people have been killed and 98 injured after the United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen on Saturday, according to the Houthi health ministry.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus” as his government made clear Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria for an indefinite period.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he reiterated Tuesday during a meeting with President Donald Trump his country’s and the region’s “steadfast opposition” to the president’s plan to resettle millions of Palestinians out of Gaza.

In a taped interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, a clip of which was released Monday, Trump was asked about his proposal to “own” and rebuild Gaza, first announced last week during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.

Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in line with President Donald Trump’s plan for the territory.

A ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas is “on the brink of coming to fruition,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

In a surprise announcement, the Defense Department disclosed Thursday that U.S. officials have doubled the number of American troops in Syria to support the fight ISIS, an increase that predates the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime this month. 

“My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” according to a statement attributed to Assad and shared on Telegram.

United Nations chief António Guterres urged Israel to halt its aerial attacks and advance into Syrian territory after the overthrow of the Assad regime.

The brutal regime saw hundreds of thousands of political prisoners disappear into jails for decades before it was toppled by rebels Sunday.

A senior commander told NBC News that tanks had been used during the incursion and rebels had freed hundreds of prisoners.

Israeli forces carried out several new drone and artillery strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday, further shaking a tenuous ceasefire meant to end more than a year of fighting with Hezbollah.

Israel has unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people.

Turkey’s foreign minister says the recent rapid advance by opposition fighters in Syria shows that the country must reconcile and hold dialogue with the opposition.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah brought hope for normality back to many in southern Lebanon on Friday.

Islamist rebels breached neighborhoods in Syria’s second-largest city of Aleppo and clashed with government military forces after detonating two car bombs Friday.

Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants returned home on Wednesday as a ceasefire took hold, driving cars stacked with personal belongings and defying warnings from Lebanese and Israeli troops to stay away from some areas.

The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants has begun as a region on edge wonders whether it will hold.

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested three individuals in connection with the murder of an Israeli Moldovan rabbi who was found dead in the country.