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UNICEF workers treat water in a refugee camp for Syrians in Lebanon, last month.

Could the Middle East’s Cholera Outbreak Reach Israel?

Syria suffered a serious cholera outbreak this summer, and the disease has migrated into Lebanon. Will the illness cross another border and cause Israel’s first outbreak in 50 years?

Cholera detected in freshwater reservoir not public health hazard, Health ministry says
Polio, vaccines and the Haredi community: A preventable public health tragedy?

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in Bali, Indonesia, last week.

Erdogan Vows to Launch Ground Invasion Against Kurdish Groups in Northern Syria

Syrian and Turkish flags flutter at the Turkish-Syrian border in September.

Rocket Strikes From Kurdish Group in Syria Kill Three in Turkey, Officials Say

Latest Headlines

WHO's Middle East Head 'Very Disturbed' by Reports of Misconduct in Syria

Syria Blames Israel for Midday Air Strike in Damascus

On Heels of Deal With Israel, Lebanon, Syria Discuss Maritime Border

Bomb Blast Kills 18 Syrian Soldiers in Damascus Countryside Attack

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An ambulance from the World Health Organization in Syria's southern port city of Tartus on Thursday night, after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off the Syrian coast.

Syrian Official Says 73 Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks

A satellite photo shows the damage after a strike targeting the airport in Aleppo, Syria, last week.

Dozens Arrested in Syria Over Suspected Collaboration With Israel, Group Says

Syrians mark Russian Flag Day while holding posters of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, last week.

Russia Tells Iranians to Evacuate Syrian Posts After Strikes Attributed to Israel: Report

Iran's delegates look at each other while U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken addresses the 2022 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, in the United Nations General Assembly, Aug. 1.

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The U.S. Is Listening to Israel, but the Deal With Iran Is Done

U.S. soldiers stand near children during a patrol near the Syrian-Turkish border in one of the villages that was subject to bombardment the previous week in the countryside east of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on August 21, 2022.

U.S. Strikes Iran-backed Militias in Syria for Second Time in 24 Hours

Syrian President Bashar Assad and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Ottoman-era Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey in 2010.

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Assad Can Declare Diplomatic Victory With Turkey

Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who is missing in Syria, speak during a press conference, at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 2018.

Syria Denies Holding U.S. Journalist Hostage for Decade as Washington Calls for Return

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni, center bottom with four white cranes on its red deck, at port in Tartus, Syria, on Monday.

First Grain Shipment Out of Ukraine Since Russian Blockade Lifted Ends Up in Syria

FILE PHOTO: An airstrike in Syria.

Syria: Three Soldiers Killed in Israeli Attack in West, Damascus Suburbs

IDF tanks in the Golan Height in 2020.

Two Syrian Civilians Wounded by Israeli Tank Fire, Syrian State Media Says

Visitors at Al Azem Palace in Damascus, Syria last month.

Crushed by War, Syrian Tourism Eyes Expat Uptick

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, last month.

Erdogan Turned Syrian Refugees Into a Weapon, and It’s Backfiring

Israeli F-15 fighter jets over Tel Aviv, April 12, 2018

Russia Fired at Israeli Jets During Syria Mission in May, Gantz Confirms

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, visits a power station in the eastern part of Aleppo province, Syria, on Friday.

Syria's Assad Makes Rare Visit to Country's North, Reports Say

A Russian woman carries her child while queuing at a makeshift hospital in ‘The Annex’, at the al-Hol refugee camp in northern Syria, in 2019.

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Syrian Refugee Camp Becomes ISIS Incubator

Residents walk through the destruction of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria in 2017

UN: More Than 300,000 Civilians Killed in Syria's Conflict

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry in 2021, a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet carrying a hypersonic missile takes off from an air base in Syria.

Russia Carried Out Multiple Operations Against U.S.-led Coalition in Syria, Report Says

A satellite image, released by Maxar Technologies, shows damage to runways at Damascus International Airport on the southeastern outskirts of Syria's capital on Friday.

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Israel Shut Down Damascus Airport to Thwart Weapons Smuggling From Iran

Satellite images depict several locations across Damascus International Airport's main runways hit by Friday's strike reportedly carried out by Israel.

Major Damage to Damascus Airport After Reported Israeli Strike Shutters All Flights

A satellite image showing the aftermath of a strike on Damascus airport from a report by ImageSat International.

Report: Israeli Strike Targets Iranian Militias at Damascus Airport

ICYMI

Netanyahu’s Israel Is About to Slam the Door on the Diaspora

Head of Israel’s Top Art Academy Leads a Quiet Revolution

Ken Burns’ Brilliant ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ Has Only One Problem

Israel May Have Caught the Worst American Disease, New Research Shows

Why the Head of ACLU’s Human Rights Program Has Regrets About Emigrating From Israel

Netanyahu’s Election Win Dealt a Grievous Blow to Judaism

Who Is a Jew? If Israel’s Next Government Has Its Way, Not These People

‘Place the Material in the Wells’: Docs Point to Israeli Army’s 1948 Biological Warfare

Do American Jews Really Know What 'Zionist' Means?

Can You Train the Brain to Get Over Depression and PTSD?

In Jerusalem, Ben Shapiro Hits Puberty and Jordan Peterson’s Mask Slips

Facing Rapid Rise in Sea Levels, Israel Could Lose Large Parts of Its Coastline by 2050

Zelenskyy Warns Israel: Putin Will Help Iran Go Nuclear in Exchange for Drones

Netanyahu Wrote a Victorious Autobiography but Couldn't Resist His Own Victimhood

Lapid to Haaretz: ‘I Have Learned to Respect the Left’

Bloodstains and Destruction at This Palestinian Home Tell the Whole Story

Israel's Secret Poisonings in 1948

The Mossad’s Fateful 48 Hours Before the Yom Kippur War