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The Syrian interior ministry said a ceasefire had been agreed on Wednesday night to end the fighting in Suweida city
US says 'specific steps' agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus
JERUSALEM — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said an agreement has been reached to end the violence in Syria following Israeli attacks on the country's capital.Israel's military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria for a third day on Wednesday, as deadly sectarian fighting in the mostly Druze province of Suweida continued.Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was "working to save our Druze brothers". Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of causing a "large-scale escalation".More than 350 people are reported to have been killed since Sunday, when clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin tribes erupted in Suweida.The Syrian military reportedly began to withdraw its...
July 17, 2025

US says 'specific steps' agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus

Smoke rises after strikes on Syria's defense ministry in Damascus on Wednesday
Israel carries out fresh strikes on Syrian capital
DAMASCUS — A powerful series of airstrikes has rocked the Syrian capital Damascus, with Syrian state media blaming Israel.One video from a Syrian television channel shows the Ministry of Defense building being hit live on air, forcing the anchor to take cover.Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz shared the footage, saying “the painful blows have begun.”Israel has been carrying out airstrikes on Syria as part of its commitment to protect the Druze, an Arab minority at the center of clashes with government loyalists.The extent of the damage from the latest strikes, including if there have been any casualties, is unclear.Earlier on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it struck the entrance of the headquarters of Syria’s defense ministry.Two civilians were injured...
July 16, 2025

Israel carries out fresh strikes on Syrian capital

Casualties from the incident were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
At least 20 killed in crush at US-backed GHF aid site in Gaza
JERUSALEM — At least 20 people have been killed in a crush at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the organisation and a local hospital say.The GHF said 19 were trampled to death and one was stabbed "amid a chaotic and dangerous surge" at its site in the Khan Younis area. It added that it believed people "armed and affiliated with Hamas" fomented unrest.But Gaza's Hamas-run Government Media Office denied the claim and accused the GHF of trying to "cover up" a crime.Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said it had received the bodies of 21 people who died from suffocation as a result of tear gas inhalation and a crush at the aid site.It is the first time the GHF has confirmed deaths at...
July 16, 2025

At least 20 killed in crush at US-backed GHF aid site in Gaza

Syria's defence minister announced a ceasefire as government forces entered Suweida city on Tuesday
Israel bombs Syrian forces entering Druze city after sectarian clashes
JERUSALEM — Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes.At least 200 people have been killed since the fighting between Druze militias and Bedouin tribes erupted on Sunday, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), reported.Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered strikes on forces and weapons in the Suweida area because the government "intended to use [them] against the Druze".Syria has condemned Israel's involvement and said the strikes had resulted in the deaths of members of the armed forces and civilians.This is the first time that Syrian government forces have been deployed to Suweida since...
July 16, 2025

Israel bombs Syrian forces entering Druze city after sectarian clashes

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Former Israeli leader says ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza would be a ‘concentration camp’
JERUSALEM — A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week he had told the military to advance plans for the zone, which would eventually contain the entire population of Gaza. The area would be built on the ruins of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, and once Palestinians enter the zone, they would not be allowed to leave. Katz also vowed to implement a plan for the emigration of Palestinians from Gaza.“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” Olmert told The Guardian newspaper on Sunday. “If they (Palestinians) will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is...
July 15, 2025

Former Israeli leader says ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza would be a ‘concentration camp’

Two female protesters hold Syrian flags and placards reading, 'Syrian refugees deserve dignity' and 'no human is illegal'
UK to start processing Syrian asylum claims again
LONDON — The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime.Asylum minister Angela Eagle said the Home Office had "worked to lift the pause as soon as there was sufficient information to make accurate and well-evidenced determinations".She said claims could now be processed, and returns to Syria conducted in line with this.BBC News understands more than 20 asylum seekers who had been living in the UK have already voluntarily returned to Syria this year - and that thousands of others could now also be in scope for returns.Ministers hope the first enforced returns to Syria could take place before the end of the year, with a senior Home Office source adding that they "wouldn't...
July 15, 2025

UK to start processing Syrian asylum claims again

People carry the body of Saif Musallet during his funeral near Ramallah, in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Sunday
‘Why are you not preventing settler terrorism’: Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American
MAZRA'A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank — Saif Musallet was just weeks away from celebrating his 21st birthday, and as he visited his family here, the Florida native’s thoughts began to turn toward marriage.“I think it’s time for me to get married,” Musallet told his father, Kamel, during a phone call last week. “Hopefully while I’m here, I’m able to find a future spouse to get engaged to.”That phone call would be Kamel’s last conversation with his son. Days later, Saif was beaten to death by Israeli settlers, according to his family and eyewitnesses.Musallet was one of two men killed that day by settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, while they were in the neighboring town of Sinjil, where their families own farmland.Hundreds turned out on Sunday, braving...
July 15, 2025

‘Why are you not preventing settler terrorism’: Palestinians call out IDF following beating death of American

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli army strike on a house belonging to the Al-Arabid family killing at least 9 people, in Al-Zawida, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 13
Israeli strikes kill at least 32 in Gaza as Palestinian war death toll tops 58,000
JERUSALEM — Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people in Gaza on Sunday as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 58,000 after 21 months of war, according to local health officials.Officials at the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza said it received ten bodies following an Israeli strike on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat. Six children were reportedly among the dead.The Israeli Defence Forces said it was targeting a militant but a technical error made its munitions fall “dozens of metres from the target.”Separately, health officials said an Israeli strike hit a group of citizens walking in the street on Sunday afternoon in central Gaza City, killing 11 people and injuring around 30 others.In the central town of Zawaida, an Israeli strike on a home killed nine, including two...
July 14, 2025

Israeli strikes kill at least 32 in Gaza as Palestinian war death toll tops 58,000

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, left, shakes hands with Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar during the EU-Israel Association Council
EU member states wary on Kallas' 10 options for action against Israel
BRUSSELS — The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas is set to offer an exhaustive list of 10 possibilities for the EU to respond to Israel's action in Gaza during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels this week, but EU diplomats told Euronews there's little appetite across the EU to take any action against Tel Aviv.Kallas' 10 options include suspending visa free travel and blocking imports from the Jewish settlements in response to Israel’s breach of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, according to a document issued by Kallas’s office seen by Euronews.The proposals, which are listed with their legal basis and the procedure required to adopt them, include suspending the entire EU-Israel Association Agreement, halting political dialogue with Israel, or barring...
July 14, 2025

EU member states wary on Kallas' 10 options for action against Israel

Members of Syrian security forces stand guard following clashes in Sweida province in May
At least 30 killed in sectarian clashes in Syria
DAMASCUS — At least 30 people have been killed in clashes in southern Syria as authorities sent forces to de-escalate the situation.Scores of people were also injured in the violence between Bedouin Sunni tribes and fighters from the Druze religious minority in the city of Sweida.Syria's interior ministry said at least 30 people were killed, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, put the death toll at 37.Fighting between different minority groups has escalated since the collapse of the Assad regime in December.A new Islamic-led government is working to establish control within the country, which remains in a fragile situation.At the end of last year, Sunni rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) stormed Damascus. They toppled President Bashar al-Assad, whose...
July 14, 2025

At least 30 killed in sectarian clashes in Syria

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