A Syrian diplomatic source revealed on Saturday that a US-mediated meeting between Syrian and Israeli officials held in Paris earlier this week was intended to “contain the escalation” following a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in southern Syria which prompted Israeli intervention. Israel carried out airstrikes this month in both Damascus and the Druze-majority Sweida […]

International pressure intensified on Saturday for alternative methods to deliver food to starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza, as the United Kingdom pledged support for airdrop operations. The British government’s backing of airdrops, led by regional partners Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), coincided with a symbolic act of defiance by pro-Palestinian activists, who piloted […]

Mervin Yamarte, aged 29, left Venezuela with his younger brother in search of a better life in the United States. But instead of opportunity, he faced a harrowing journey through the jungle, arrest and deportation without trial, followed by months of abuse in a Salvadoran high-security prison. Upon arriving back in his hometown of Maracaibo, […]

Israel announced on Saturday that it had conducted airdrops of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and would soon establish humanitarian corridors, amid escalating international condemnation over the worsening hunger crisis in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel has enforced a total blockade on Gaza since 2 March, following the collapse of ceasefire negotiations. While a […]

Lisa Tate, a farmer from Ventura County, California, whose family has cultivated land there since 1876, says she has never seen a threat to agriculture like the one posed by Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration policies. Tate fears that the recent crackdown on undocumented workers could do far more harm than good, potentially crippling the local […]