UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France says it and the US have worked on a plan for a 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah to allow for talks.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance after attack on Israel in retaliation for Hezbollah leader’s killing
Six people were killed and nine wounded in a terror attack in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday evening.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today called on all parties in the Middle East to urgently...
Iran sends more than 180 ballistic missiles in dramatic escalation of conflict
Casualties during heavy fighting in border areas come days after Israel launched ground incursion
A flip-flop-wearing survivor of the October 7 attack on Israel shot at two gunmen who opened fire in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening.
Some critics have cynically described Iran’s missile strike as an elaborate, expensive spectacle intended for public consumption. Others are worried this is the final nail in the coffin that will spark the region's biggest war in decades. But why did Tehran choose to escalate now?
Political leaders across the continent have denounced Tehran's overnight ballistic missile strikes, for which Israel has promised retaliation.
An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights, Japanese officials said. No one was hurt, and there were no aircraft nearby when the bomb exploded at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan, Land and Transport Ministry officials said. Videos broadcast on Japanese television showed a crater in the taxiway reportedly about 7 meters (yards) in diameter and 1 meter (3 feet) deep.
Vuhledar has been a bastion of Ukrainian resistance since Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion in February 2022
Unidentified gunmen killed six people in two separate attacks Tuesday in the same province in southern Iran, including a local chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, state TV reported. The head of a town council and two volunteer members of the Guard were also among the dead in the first attack, it said. It occurred after the victims participated in a school ceremony in Nikshahar town, about 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran, the report said.
Israel said hundreds of missiles hit the country in an attack which Iran said was a "legitimate" response to previous Israeli fire.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Israel, backed by the United States, and Iran on Wednesday threatened each other with retaliation if attacked as the United Nations Security Council met amid fears of a wider war in the Middle East. "This deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the 15-member council. The council met after Israel killed the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah and began a ground assault against the Iran-backed militant group and Iran attacked Israel in a missile strike.
The Middle East is edging ever closer toward a full-blown regional war as Israel vowed to respond to Iran’s huge barrage of ballistic missiles fired at the country on Tuesday night, capping a day of dramatic military escalation in the region.
Israel has described its initial ground incursion into southern Lebanon as “limited,” although its key ally, the Biden administration, has already suggested it could risk dragging on.
Iran launched a huge missile attack against Israel on Tuesday, which Tehran said was retaliation for the killings of proxy leaders.
Hamas has praised Iran's missile attack on Israel, saying it was a "heroic" attempt to avenge the deaths of three men. Iran has confirmed it fired a barrage of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, saying it did so in "self-defence" - while Israel has said Iran made a "big mistake" by launching the attack. Hamas, though, said: "We congratulate the heroic rocket launch carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, on large areas of our occupied territories, in response to the occupation's continuing crimes against the peoples of the region, and in retaliation for the blood of our nation's heroic martyrs".
Israel has won some impressive victories against Hezbollah. But its invasion of Lebanon risks becoming a bloody stalemate.
In the days after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, fears ran high of a regional war. The conflict would not be contained in Gaza, the thinking went – Hezbollah would attack Israel from the north, the Houthis from Yemen, and Iranian proxies from Iraq. Israel would be forced to respond, it would come into direct conflict with Iran, and the wider war would be upon us.
Watch live as Lebanese people who fled their country out of fear for their safety amid Israel’s strikes arrive in southern Turkey on a ferry on Thursday, 3 October. It comes after Israel and Hezbollah, a group backed by Iran, clashed in intense ground battles in southern Lebanon for the first time in nearly two decades. Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Iran “will pay” after it fired at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.
