Update Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz (C-L), sit at Mount Hermon in the annexed Golan Heights.

Netanyahu: Israeli troops will occupy Syria buffer zone for ‘foreseeable future’

  • Netanyahu tours area seized in southern Syria in the days after Assad's downfall
  • UN says Israeli troops are violating 1974 deal that set up buffer zone
By AP ·

Syrian mass graves expose Assad’s ‘machinery of death’

Syrian mass graves expose Assad’s ‘machinery of death’

  • Former US war crimes ambassador Stephen Rapp: "We haven't seen anything like this since the Nazis"
  • More than 157,000 people have been reported missing to Hague commission
By Reuters ·

Update Geir Pederson, the United Nations’ special envoy to Syria, center, listens to a woman who was looking for her missing relative. video

At first Security Council meeting since Assad’s fall, UN envoy calls for end to Syria sanctions

  • Geir Pedersen warns that though the regime of former president Bashar Assad has been toppled, the ‘conflict has not ended yet’
  • Council members denounce Israeli authorities for illegal seizure of parts of Syria, call on them to withdraw forces and respect nation’s sovereignty
By Ephrem Kossaify ·

Saudi Shoura Council speaker arrives in Pakistan on official visit

Saudi Shoura Council speaker arrives in Pakistan on official visit

  • Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Asheikh welcomed at Islamabad International Airport 
By Arab News ·

Women with children wait for medical care at the Italian Paediatric Hospital in Port Sudan on October 8, 2024. (AFP) photos

Sudan’s doctors bear brunt of war as healthcare falls apart

  • The violence has turned the country's hospitals into battlegrounds, placing health workers like Moussa on the frontlines
By AFP ·

General view taken during a Defense ministers Council meeting at Nato headquarters in Brussels. (AFP file photo)

NATO takes over coordination of military aid to Kyiv from US, source says

  • The headquarters of NATO’s new Ukraine mission, dubbed NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), is located at Clay Barracks, a US base in the German town of Wiesbaden
By Reuters ·

Mother of missing US journalist urges Netanyahu to pause strikes on Syria to aid search for her son

Mother of missing US journalist urges Netanyahu to pause strikes on Syria to aid search for her son

  • Austin Tice, a former Marine, was abducted in Syria in August 2012 while reporting on the country’s descent into civil war
  • His mother says ‘credible information’ suggests her son is in a prison close to areas pounded by Israeli strikes
By Arab News ·

Mother of missing US journalist urges Netanyahu to pause strikes on Syria to aid search for her son

Mother of missing US journalist urges Netanyahu to pause strikes on Syria to aid search for her son

  • Austin Tice, a former Marine, was abducted in Syria in August 2012 while reporting on the country’s descent into civil war
  • His mother says ‘credible information’ suggests her son is in a prison close to areas pounded by Israeli strikes
By Arab News ·

Vinicius and Bonmati named FIFA Best players of the year

Vinicius and Bonmati named FIFA Best players of the year

  • The award comes two months after 24-year-old Vinicius was second in the Ballon d’Or, with Real electing to snub the ceremony when they found out beforehand that Manchester City midfielder Rodri was set to win the trophy
  • The 26-year-old Spaniard Bonmati picked up the Best women’s player award for the second year running, adding to the two Ballon d’Or trophies she already boasts
By AFP ·