DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas says ongoing Israeli operations in Gaza City could have 'disastrous repercussions' for the cease-fire talks.
Protesters rallied in Georgia’s capital for a fourth straight night on Sunday and there were signs that opposition was spreading across the country to the government’s decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union.
Russia is treating North Korean troops well right now, Ukraine's Zelenskyy said, as it wants more to come fight, but they will become "cannon fodder."
Hezbollah fired into a disputed border zone held by Israel on Monday. Israeli leaders threatened to retaliate and within hours, Israel’s military carried out its biggest wave of strikes in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on a village killed five people, while another airstrike killed four.
Former top spy Sir Alex Younger stressed the risks of Donald Trump pulling US troops out of Syria
A former Israeli defense minister has accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, drawing a sharp rebuke from government ranks. Moshe Yaalon, a hawkish former general, told Israeli media that hardliners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right cabinet were looking to chase Palestinians from northern Gaza and wanted to re-establish Jewish settlements there.
Pakistani authorities with help from community leaders brokered a second ceasefire between warring minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims in a troubled northwestern region bordering Afghanistan following a deadly sectarian violence that left dozens of people dead, officials said Monday. The violence in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, erupted after gunmen attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying mostly Shiites, killing 52 people on Nov.21.
White House National Security Council Spokesperson Sean Savett responded to a video released by Hamas on Saturday where an Israeli-American hostage spoke about the horrors of life as a captive for more than 420 days. “The hostage video released today of American-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander is a cruel reminder of Hamas’s terror against citizens of…
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces bombarded houses in overnight attacks in the northern Gaza Strip, including one airstrike that killed at least 15 people in a home sheltering displaced people in the town of Beit Lahiya, Palestinian medics said on Monday. The three barely operational hospitals in the area were unable to cope with the wounded from the attack, and a number of other people were still missing with rescue workers unable to reach them, the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said. Residents said clusters of houses were bombed and some set ablaze in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, three towns on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army has been operating for weeks.
Israel has killed a World Central Kitchen aid worker it claims took part in Hamas’s October 7 terror attack.
Agency says armed gangs looted several trucks carrying food supplies and urges Israel to ensure safe flows of aid
Sectarian violence has killed at least 130 people and wounded 200 others in Pakistan’s northwest in the last 10 days, officials said Sunday. Violence flared in Kurram district on Nov. 21 when gunmen ambushed a vehicle convoy and killed 52 people, mostly Shiite Muslims. Nobody claimed responsibility for the assault, which triggered retaliatory firing and arson by rival groups in several areas.
The Israeli military on Monday confirmed the death of American Israeli soldier Omer Maxim Neutra.
Hamas said on Monday that 33 hostages in Gaza had been killed during the almost 14-month-old war between the Palestinian militant group and Israel in the enclave, without giving their nationalities. Hamas added that other hostages had gone missing. Hamas shortly afterward published a video it said detailed when and how the hostages had been killed, blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their fate.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted convoys. In Israel, a former defense minister and fierce critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and a hard-liner on the Palestinians — accused the government of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, where a military offensive continues. The U.N. agency's decision could worsen Gaza's humanitarian crisis as a second cold, rainy winter sets in, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in squalid tent camps and reliant on international aid.
Israeli jets Sunday launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported. The attacks come days after a US-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect.
After fierce clashes between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops in southern Lebanon in November 2024, a photo was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed an Israeli military helicopter that had been shot down. The photo in fact shows a helicopter releasing flares over Gaza and was taken by an AFP photographer in March 2019.
Civilians among casualties as Russia and Syria launch second day of airstrikes, war monitors say
While nowhere in Gaza can be considered safe, among the most dangerous places these days is anywhere there's food.Many of the roads used by humanitarian agencies to transport and deliver basic necessities have descended into chaos. The trucks that carry food are routinely attacked and looted. And the spaces outside the territory's few operating bakeries have become death traps, often jammed with desperate, hungry people climbing over each other to grab limited supplies of bread. While Israel and
Protesters in Georgia used a makeshift fireworks gun against riot police on the third night of violent clashes with the pro-Russian government in the capital.
Like many supporters of Georgia's political opposition, 32-year-old Ani Bakhturidze worries the government is leading her country away from Europe and "towards Russia".There's nothing else I can do right now, and I have to come here," said 21-year-old Bakhturidze.
