Hamas weakened, not crushed a year into war with Israel
The Palestinian group has not been crushed outright, and a year on from its unprecedented attack on Israel, an end...Geostrategy
UN alarmed as Israeli strikes kill more than 180 people in Lebanon
Lebanon's health ministry said more than 700 were injured on Monday in the worst toll by far in nearly a...Geostrategy
Fighting rages in Gaza City’s Shujaiya for fourth day
A Hamas official in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, confirmed that the Islamist movement had received the latest proposal but said it...Months of on-and-off talks towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal have meanwhile made little progress
Hamas said Saturday that there was "nothing new" in a revised plan presented by US mediators
Hamas official says ‘nothing new’ in US Gaza proposals
Hamas insists on a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. Hamdan said the...A plan presented last month by President Biden, which he said was proposed by Israel, included a six-week truce accompanied by an Israeli withdrawal from densely populated areas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will continue the war until Hamas is totally defeated and all hostages are freed
Reformist hopes for breakthrough as Iran goes to polls
Tehran, Iran - Iranians voted in a presidential election on Friday marked by a lone reformist's bid to break through against...The ballot in 58,000 polling stations comes against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions over the Gaza war and discontent over the state of Iran's sanctions-hit economy
If no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote, a second round will be held on July 5, for only the second time in Iranian electoral history after the 2005 vote went to a runoff
Polls open in Iran for presidential election amidst vote boycott calls
Polls in Iran opened on Friday for a presidential election following the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a...Around 61 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the polls
Khamenei: "the most qualified candidate" must be "the one who truly believes in the principles of the Islamic Revolution" of 1979
Battles in Gaza’s Rafah as US warns Israel over Lebanon
Top Israeli officials have suggested they are open to a diplomatic resolution of the border tensions, though Gallant said Israel..."Another war between Israel and Hezbollah could easily become a regional war," US Defense Secretary warned
"Diplomacy is by far the best way to prevent more escalation," Austin added
Iran picks new president at turbulent time
Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can...In the 2021 election that brought Raisi to power, voters shunned the polls
Six candidates, five conservatives and one reformist, are competing in Iran's presidential election
WikiLeaks founder Assange freed in US plea deal
Assange had been detained in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019. He was arrested after spending seven...Assange, who from 2010 published hundreds of thousands of secret US documents as head of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, was freed Monday from a high-security British prison
The judge on Wednesday sentenced him to five years and two months in prison - with credit for the same amount of time he spent behind bars in Britain
Telegraph report on Hizbollah weapons at Beirut airport sparks outrage
Dubai, UAE - An article in The Telegraph alleging that Hizbollah is stockpiling Iranian weapons at Beirut International Airport (BIA)...The Telegraph's report on June 23, 2024, cited unnamed "whistleblowers" who claimed that Hizbollah had amassed "huge quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles, and explosives" at BIA
The absence of identifiable sources and the reliance on anonymous airport workers as the sole basis for such significant allegations have been points of contention
Israel PM says ‘intense’ phase of Gaza war winding down
Netanyahu said Israel would be able to "redeploy some forces to the north" on the border with Lebanon, where exchanges...The right-wing premier spoke in a TV interview on Sunday as Defence Minister Yoav Gallant travelled to Washington for what Gallant called "critical" talks with Israel's top ally
With fears growing of full-scale war in Lebanon, Netanyahu said Israel would return its displaced citizens to their evacuated northern border communities
Lebanon Transport minister denies Hezbollah weapons at Beirut Airport
Lebanon's transport minister denied on Sunday that Hezbollah was storing weapons at Beirut airport, as fears grow of all-out war...Hamieh invited ambassadors and journalists to inspect the airport on Monday morning
Cross-border exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel have escalated over the past two weeks