Jordan’s foreign minister has held talks with Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus as regional leaders move to engage with the new administration following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad two weeks ago. “We stand by our Syrian brothers as they start the rebuilding process,” Ayman Safadi told Al Jazeera on Monday. “We want a stable, secure, safe Syria that guarantees the rights of its people...

Magdeburg has been enveloped in grief since an attack that killed a nine-year-old boy and four women at a Christmas market on Friday evening. About 200 people were also injured when a car rammed into the busy market in the eastern German city. Authorities have charged Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year old, Saudi-born psychiatrist who has lived in Germany since 2006, with murder and attempted murder. Political parties across...

The United States has long been Israel’s primary international backer, lending it vast political, diplomatic and financial support. This has only increased since Israel began its assault on Gaza last October, even as it gradually expanded the parameters of its war, in which it is widely accused by human rights groups of committing genocide. According to Brown University’s Watson Institute, the US government provided Israel with almost $18bn...