Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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The TelegraphIDF assassinates right-hand man of Hamas leader Sinwar
Israel has said it has assassinated the “right-hand man” of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
- The Telegraph
Watch: Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike British oil ship in Red Sea
Video footage shows the moment Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched an explosive-laden drone boat into a British oil tanker in the Red Sea.
- Evening Standard
Huge blast close to Beirut's international airport as Israel renews air strikes
Israeli strike targeting Hezbollah hits near perimeter of Beirut’s international airport, despite G7 urging restraint
- Reuters
Haitian gang slaughters at least 70 people as thousands flee
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti's main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence. More people were severely injured in the attack in the early hours of Thursday at Pont-Sonde, in the agricultural region of Artibonite in western Haiti. Gran Grif gang leader Luckson Elan took responsibility for the massacre, saying it was in retaliation for civilians remaining passive while police and vigilante groups killed his soldiers.
- AFP News
Taliban's battle with IS opens door to foreign cooperation
Afghanistan's Islamic State group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists.Since winning their own insurgency in defiance of the international community three years ago, the Taliban government has been plagued by attacks by the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K).
- LA Times
Christian villages were neutral in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. That didn't save them
Christian villages in southern Lebanon thought their neutrality may spare them from violence in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Then the evacuation orders came.
- The Independent
Yazidi woman kidnapped at 11 and held hostage in Gaza by Isis militant for a decade finally rescued
Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, reunites with her family in Iraq following rescue operation facilitated by Israel, the US, and Jordan
- CNN
‘I don’t have the energy to be displaced again’: Lebanon’s capital reels after Israeli strikes
When Israel struck the center of Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, it seemed to wipe out what little sense of safety remained in the Lebanese capital.
- CNN
‘There will be a lot of deaths’: Israelis living near Lebanese border fear tit-for-tat escalation
Yair Pinhas grew up hiking in the hills around Kiryat Shmona, his hometown in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon.
- Associated Press
Iranian supreme leader praises missile attack on Israel, saying Iran will do it again if necessary
Iran’s supreme leader on Friday praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it was ready to do it again if necessary, state TV reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his first appearance as leader at Friday prayers in about five years, called the missile strike a “shining” job by Iran's armed forces. On Tuesday, Iran launched at least 180 missiles at Israel, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its allies that threaten to push the Middle East closer to a regionwide war.
- CNN
US security officials warn of potential threats surrounding October 7th anniversary
The upcoming one-year anniversary of the deadly terror attack on Israel by Hamas and continued Middle East turmoil could serve as motivators for acts of violence by extremists, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a joint public announcement Friday.
- Reuters
Thousands flee gang killings in Haiti breadbasket town, media reports
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in an overnight attack in a Haitian town led by the Gran Grif gang, local newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported on Thursday, as powerful armed gangs expand their influence from the capital. Thousands of residents left the town of Pont-Sonde, some 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital, to seek refuge in the coastal town of Saint-Marc, Le Nouvelliste said. Haiti's national police told Reuters that several people had been killed and severely wounded in the attack, without giving any numbers.
- Euronews
Ukraine says it killed Zaporizhzhia NPP security chief, branding him a 'collaborator'
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, located in southern Ukraine, is the largest in Europe and prior to the 2022 Russian invasion, supplied Ukraine with around 30% of its electricity. It was seized by Russian forced in the early weeks of the war.
- CNN
Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon the ‘most intense aerial campaign’ outside Gaza in last two decades
Israel has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign over the last two weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from their homes, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
- Reuters
Russia has decided 'at highest level' to remove Taliban from terrorist list, TASS reports
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been "taken at the highest level", the state TASS news agency reported. The decision needs to be followed up with various legal procedures in order to make it a reality, President Vladimir Putin's special representative on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, was quoted as saying. Putin said in July that Russia considered Afghanistan's Taliban movement an ally in the fight against terrorism.
- The Independent
What are Israel and Iran’s attack and defence capabilities?
The two bitter regional enemies are on the brink of all-out war
- The Independent
Watch: Lebanese refugees fleeing Israeli strikes arrive in Turkey
Watch again as Lebanese people who fled their country out of fear for their safety amid Israel’s strikes arrived 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.
- Reuters
Biden says he does not believe there will be 'all-out war' in Middle East
President Joe Biden said on Thursday he did not believe there is going to be an "all-out war" in the Middle East, a region that has been on edge amid Israel's assaults in Gaza and Lebanon and escalation of the U.S. ally's tensions with Iran. Tensions between Iran and Israel have been high as Israel has been weighing options to respond to Tehran's ballistic missile attack on Tuesday, which Iran had carried out in response to Israel's military action in Lebanon.
- HuffPost
Amid Lebanon Bloodshed, Key House Democrats Say U.S. Must End Israeli 'Culture Of Impunity'
In a letter obtained by HuffPost, lawmakers urge the State Department and Pentagon to apply a human rights law to U.S. military support for Israel.
- Reuters
Israeli bombardment kills 29 people in Gaza, militants renew rocket fire into Israel
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 29 Palestinians on Friday, medics said, and sirens blared in southern Israel in response to renewed rocket fire from militants in the Palestinian enclave. The new rocket salvoes indicated that Hamas-led militant factions in Gaza are still able to fire projectiles into Israel despite a year-long Israeli aerial and ground offensive that has turned wide areas of the enclave into wasteland. On Friday, the Israeli military said sirens sounded in southern Israel for the first time in around two months.