DAMASCUS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - An Israeli attack killed three soldiers near the capital Damascus, a Syrian official said Tuesday, though an external war monitor said the toll was higher. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since an Islamist-led alliance toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December. It has also opened talks with the interim authorities in Damascus. "An Israeli drone targeted one of the military buildings of the 44th division of the Syrian army in Kiswah, west of Damascus, killing three members of the division," an official at the defence ministry told AFP, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights later said the toll had risen to six, all...
MRAUK U, Myanmar, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least...
JERUSALEM, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli police said Wednesday that security forces seized roughly 1.5 million shekels ($447,000) of "terror funds" during a raid...
GENEVA, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The UN insisted Tuesday that Israel must not only investigate alleged unlawful killings in Gaza like the hospital strike...
TEL AVIV, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Protesters calling for an end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages being held there...
Two journalists for Reuters and the Associated Press who were killed in an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital were not "a target of the...
Six Syrian soldiers were killed in Israeli drone strikes in the Damascus countryside, state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported early on Wednesday. Syria and Israel are...
An initial Israeli military inquiry has concluded that troops struck what they believed to be a Hamas camera position in Monday's attack on a Gaza...
BELGRADE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Serbia's largest oil producer was given another 30-day reprieve from sanctions by the United States, the sixth deferral for...
CHISINAU, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland are due in Moldova on Wednesday in a show of support, a...
TEHRAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iranian forces have killed 13 militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Wednesday, adding they...
POREPUNKAH, Australia, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Police searched the Australian bush on Wednesday for a heavily armed 56-year-old gunman still on the run a...
BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom's longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on...