Antoine Khoury

At least seven people were killed Wednesday "by gunfire" against a bus in Syria's central Homs province, the official SANA news agency reported. 

Syrian authorities announced Tuesday the arrest, in Daraa province in the country's south near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, of three members of a cell "affiliated with Hezbollah" that they said was planning attacks, including rocket launches.

Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei paid tribute to former Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in a written statement marking the second anniversary of his killing in an Israeli strike. 

A series of explosions at a military site near the city of Aleppo, in northern Syria, wounded four people early Monday, the government announced. It marks the fourth such episode involving explosions in less than a month in a country still emerging from a long civil war that began in 2011.

Eleven people were killed Friday in an explosion of unknown origin at a military site in the Ayyash area, west of Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, the country's Defense Ministry announced Saturday.

Syria's judiciary issued its first verdicts on Thursday in the trial over massacres of Alawites on the Syrian coast last year, sentencing a member of government forces to 20 years in prison, while two supporters of the deposed government received a death sentence and a life sentence, respectively.

Lebanese MP Nadim Gemayel of the Kataeb party said that his party does not oppose Lebanon making peace with neighboring Israel, which still occupies more than 600 square kilometers of Lebanese territory and has razed dozens of border villages in its war against Hezbollah.

Lebanese politician Dory Chamoun died on Monday at the age of 94. His easygoing manner and plain, straightforward way of speaking might almost have marked him as an outsider on Lebanon's political scene, born and raised as he was in the shadow of a father who dominated the country's contemporary history for decades with his imposing stature.

Ali al-Taher, the strategic ridge overlooking Nabatieh, was the site of a fresh Israeli military operation Thursday evening, with the army saying it destroyed "more than two kilometers of Hezbollah underground infrastructure" beneath the height, located north of the Litani River, roughly 15 kilometers from the Israeli border.

The presentation of credentials by a fresh wave of ambassadors to Syria's transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, has drawn a notably warm response from the Syrian Liberal Party, whose statement this week reads less like routine diplomatic courtesy and more like a manifesto for what post-war Syria could become.

US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack called Saturday for restraint in the southern province of Sweida, a Druze-majority region, following tensions between local figures.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the release of five Lebanese nationals held by Israel, after being abducted from southern Lebanon during the successive wars since 2023.