Lebanon

The war monitor said the strikes were the ‘most violent in the Syrian coast region since the beginning of the (Israeli) strikes in 2012’.

Travis Timmerman appears to have been among thousands of people released from the country’s notorious prisons after rebels reached Damascus.

Palestinian medics said more than 40 people, most of them children, were receiving treatment in two hospitals.

On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Suheil Hamwi was arrested in 1992 in the town of Chekka in northern Lebanon – it would be years before his family even found out what had happened.

Many arrived at the Cilvegozu and Oncupinar border gates at daybreak, draped in blankets and coats.

The fall of Syria’s authoritarian government at the hands of jihadi militants set off waves of jubilation, trepidation and alarm.

At least 29 people died after the Kamal Adwan hospital was struck by Israeli forces.

The children were among five people killed, health chiefs said.

The strikes came after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations.