Middle East

A threatening message from President-elect Donald Trump has high-ranking Hamas officials scrambling to reach a truce deal with Israel, halting war in Gaza and bringing forward the release of hostages. 

Israeli authorities have called on residents of al-Bureij camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip to leave, saying militants had fired rockets from the area.

Israel’s foreign minister has blasted his Australian counterpart Penny Wong in a heated phone call, accusing her of turning her back on the Jewish state in its darkest hour.

A Gaza Strip ceasefire deal involving Hamas and Israel could be signed within days, sources say, amid talks in the Middle East.

THE WASHINGTON POST: With its military power depleted and its political influence on the wane, Hamas is under growing public pressure to help bring the war in Gaza to an end.

Khaled’s grandchildren were killed while they were sleeping in their bed. Now he has suffered a similar fate.

Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad has spoken for the first time about his evacuation and newly found asylum in Russia.

A massive Israeli strike that registered on the Richter scale has targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has held a ‘very friendly, very warm and very important’ conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump.

Israel's government has approved a plan to expand Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights it occupies, citing "the new front facing Syria".

Israeli air and ground attacks in the northern part of the Gaza Strip have left dozens of militants dead while others have been captured.

The leaders - from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - are worried that Bashar al-Assad’s ouster could stir unrest at home, analysts, officials and diplomats say.

An American citizen jailed in Syria was handed to the US government and taken to Jordan on Friday, US and Syrian officials said, after he was freed during the chaotic collapse of the Assad regime.

Thousands of Syrians have gathered at a square in the capital Damascus to celebrate after the first Friday prayers following Bashar al-Assad's ousting.

Travis Timmerman was found wandering barefoot in Syria yesterday after being released from the notorious Sednaya prison.