Khamenei warns against negotiating with US

Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that there should not be negotiations with the United States, days after US President Donald Trump called for a new nuclear deal.
7 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump’s Gaza plan derails Saudi-Israel ties: analysts

US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza will imperil attempts to forge landmark ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel and fuel anti-American sentiment in the oil-rich kingdom, analysts said.
7 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Iran Revolutionary Guards unveil first drone carrier in Gulf

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday unveiled the country’s first drone carrier in Gulf waters, state media reported.
6 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Pak Taliban kill 2 police officers

An overnight raid on a police checkpoint claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed two officers, police said yesterday, while one more remains missing after being abducted in the northwest.
6 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Israel to hand over Gaza to US after fighting: Trump

US President Donald Trump said yesterday that Israel would hand over Gaza to the United States after fighting was over and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, which he said meant no US troops would be needed on the ground.
6 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump’s Gaza plan will pour ‘oil on fire’

Palestinian group Hamas yesterday lashed out at President Donald Trump’s shock proposal for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip and resettle its people in other countries, seemingly whether they want to leave or not.
5 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli raid in west bank: Jenin camp going in ‘catastrophic direction’

The Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank is heading in a “catastrophic direction”, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said yesterday, after a new Israeli military operation levelled several buildings.
4 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Ethnic cleansing going on in West Bank

The office of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas denounced an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank as ethnic cleansing yesterday, urging the United States to intervene.
3 February 2025, 18:00 PM

Hamas-Israel complete 4th hostage-prisoner swap

Freed Palestinian inmates were greeted by a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, after Hamas released three Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip in the fourth exchange under the group’s ceasefire deal with Israel.
1 February 2025, 18:00 PM

2,500 Gaza children at ‘imminent risk’ of death

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza for medical treatment after meeting with US doctors who said the children were at imminent risk of death in the coming weeks.
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Israel military intercepts Hezbollah drone

The Israeli military said it intercepted a surveillance drone launched by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah yesterday amid a fragile ceasefire.
30 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Ready for nuke talks if West is ‘serious’: Iran

Iran is ready to discuss its nuclear programme if Western countries show they are “serious”, the foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying in an interview published yesterday.
30 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Israel cuts ties with UN aid agency

Israel cut ties with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday following accusations it provided cover for Hamas, a move likely to hamper delivery of its vital services after 15 months of offensive in Gaza.
30 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli drone strike injures five people

Five people were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting the southern Lebanese town of Majdal Selm yesterday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
29 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Israel delaying aid delivery to Gaza

Two Hamas officials yesterday accused Israel of delaying the delivery of vital humanitarian aid to Gaza, as agreed in the ceasefire deal, and warned that it could impact the release of hostages.
29 January 2025, 18:00 PM

300,000 Palestinians return to north Gaza

More than 300,000 Palestinians have crossed from southern Gaza into the north, the Hamas-run Gaza media authority said in a statement early yesterday, as the United Nations warned that “needs on the ground remain immense”.
28 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Gaza residents stream home to the north

Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed along the main roads leading north in Gaza yesterday after Hamas agreed to hand over three Israeli hostages later this week and Israeli forces began to withdraw from a main corridor across the enclave.
27 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza

US President Donald Trump floated a plan to “just clean out” Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory, as a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas aimed at permanently ending the war entered its second week yesterday.
26 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Israeli forces kill 15 in south Lebanon

Israeli forces killed 15 people in south Lebanon yesterday as a deadline for their withdrawal passed and thousands of people tried to return to their homes in defiance of Israeli military orders, Lebanese authorities said.
26 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Gaza development put back 60 years by war: UN

The Israel-Hamas war has put back development in Gaza by 60 years and mobilising the tens of billions of dollars needed for reconstruction will be an uphill task, the United Nations said.
25 January 2025, 18:00 PM