Israel foils missile attack from Yemen

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early yesterday, a day after the Huthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh air strikes.
28 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli forces raid north Gaza hospital

Israeli forces raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of only three medical facilities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, yesterday, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate the compound, officials said.
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Bodies of 100 Kurdish women, kids found

Iraqi authorities are working to exhume the remains of around 100 Kurdish women and children thought to have been killed in the 1980s under former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, three officials said.
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel strikes ‘infrastructure’ on Syria-Lebanon border

The Israeli military reported it conducted air strikes yesterday targeting “infrastructure” on the Syrian-Lebanese border near the village of Janta, which it said was used to smuggle weapons to the armed group Hezbollah.
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM

26 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital yesterday, though Israel’s army said it had attacked a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad fighters.
26 December 2024, 18:30 PM

South Lebanon: UN force sounds alarm over Israeli ‘destruction’

The United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Lebanon yesterday expressed concern at the “continuing” damage done by Israeli forces in the country’s south despite a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah.
26 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Syria, Iraq: Turkish military kills 21 Kurdish militants

Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry said yesterday.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Hamas, Israel blame each other for truce delay

Hamas yesterday accused Israel of imposing “new conditions” that it said were delaying a ceasefire agreement in the war in Gaza, though it acknowledged negotiations were still ongoing.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli air strike hits target in east: Lebanon

Lebanon’s state media said an Israeli air strike targeted the Baalbek region in the east of the country before dawn yesterday, branding it a “violation” of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli strikes hit Gaza hospitals

The Israeli army has intensified its attacks on the health facilities in northern Gaza, as it besieged and “directly targeted” the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and al-Awda Hospital in the past hours, the enclave’s health ministry said yesterday.
24 December 2024, 18:43 PM

Gaza truce talks make headway

Gaps between Israel and Hamas over a possible Gaza ceasefire have narrowed, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials’ remarks yesterday, though crucial differences have yet to be resolved.
23 December 2024, 18:35 PM

Nine killed in Iran as bus, fuel truck collide

At least nine people were killed yesterday when a bus collided with a fuel truck in Iran’s southeast, state media reported, the second mass casualty road accident within days.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli strikes kill 28 in Gaza Strip

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 28 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north.
22 December 2024, 18:56 PM

Yemen rebels launch missile attack on Israel’s Tel Aviv

A missile fired from Yemen by Iran-backed Huthi rebels struck Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv before dawn yesterday, wounding 16 people in the second such attack in days.
21 December 2024, 19:13 PM

Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque

Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian residents said yesterday, and video showed “Revenge”, “Death to Arabs” and other slogans had been spray-painted in Hebrew on the building’s facade.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Time to ‘eradicate’ IS, Kurdish fighters in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday it was time to destroy “terrorist” groups that posed a threat to Syria’s survival, namely the Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish fighters.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM

9 killed as Israel strikes Yemen port

Israel launched strikes against ports and energy infrastructure in Houthi-held parts of Yemen early yesterday and threatened more attacks against the Iran-aligned militant group, which has launched hundreds of missiles at Israel over the past year.
19 December 2024, 18:33 PM

Hopes for Gaza truce deal rise

The United States, joined by Arab mediators, yesterday sought to conclude an agreement between Israel and Hamas to halt the 14-month-old offensive in the Gaza Strip where medics said Israeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians overnight.
18 December 2024, 18:00 PM

First flight since Assad's fall takes off from Damascus airport

The first flight since the ouster of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country's north, AFP journalists saw
18 December 2024, 09:24 AM

Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians yesterday, at least 10 of them in one house in Gaza City, medics said as tanks pushed deeper towards the western area of Rafah in the south.
17 December 2024, 18:00 PM