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In addition, Israel has carried out the largest airstrikes it has ever launched against Iran, reportedly weakening the ...

Lebanon seized $2.5 million in cash destined for Hezbollah carried by a man arriving from Turkey. This development follows ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

The militia wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party announced a cease-fire with immediate effect Saturday to halt decades of ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

Two major phenomena/catastrophes have weighed on the Levant for decades: one is military coups and security states that grew out of them- Syria and Iraq were its two theatres- and the next is militia ...