The Associated Press has followed the Abu Jarad family as it traverses across the Gaza Strip and back, fleeing from Israel's campaign against Hamas.

Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.

The U.N. children’s agency says more than 9,000 children have been treated for malnutrition in Gaza this year, and food security experts say tens of thousands of cases are expected in the coming year.

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 years of civil war — and it threatens to open an endless cycle of vengeance.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring ...

Is the man once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani intent on moderating or a brutal strongman?

From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry. Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Divi...

Hundreds of thousands of people have packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets for the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a south...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.

The party that for decades ruled as part of the Assad dynasty is now being blamed for damaging relations with other Arab countries and aiding in the spread of corruption that brought the war-torn nati...

As insurgents pursue a shock offensive that quickly captured not just Aleppo, but the key city of Hama, the Syrian President appears to be largely on his own.

Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his image and the insurgency he commands.

Tens of thousands of residents who have started streaming back into southern Lebanon to check on their homes are finding that they have lost everything.

Syria's opposition groups say armed forces launched a large-scale attack on areas controlled by government forces and seized territory in northwestern Syria.

Many of them believe they are being unfairly punished because they share a religious identity with Hezbollah militants and often live in the same areas.

Israeli airstrikes have increasingly hit residential areas around Lebanon. More than 100 children have been killed in the past six weeks and hundreds injured.

In a book for the Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis addresses current issues, including the suffering of war displaced and the famine in Palestine. He ...

Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony that killed scores have gathered outside a military hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs...