The truce, brokered by the United States, is intended to halt cross-border fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah. Scenes of...
More than 3,000 rallies were held across all 50 states, with participation estimates ranging from several million to as many...
In a defiant address to the nation, Russia's president railed at Ukraine's allies granting permission for Kyiv to use Western-supplied...The Kremlin strongman spoke out after a day of frayed nerves, with Russia test-firing a new generation intermediate-range missile at Ukraine
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky branded the strike a major ramping up of the "scale and brutality" of the war by a "crazy neighbour."
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein announced "additional progress" in Lebanon-Israel ceasefire talks, heading to Israel to finalize an agreement amidst escalating..."Israel cannot defeat us and cannot impose its conditions on us," Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in an address broadcast shortly after Hochstein announced his travel plans
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in a near-simultaneous statement, said any ceasefire deal must ensure Israel still has the "freedom to act" against Hezbollah
Hochstein said an end to the war was "now within our grasp", while Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker Nabih Berri, said the...The United States and France have spearheaded efforts for a truce in the conflict
Hochstein said an end to the war was "now within our grasp"
- Hassan Shami, Iraq - A decade after Islamic State group extremists rampaged through northern Iraq, Moaz Fadhil and his eight children...
The jihadists seized a third of Iraq, ruling their self-declared "caliphate" with an iron fist, before an international coalition wrestled control from them in 2017
Seven years on, many of the village's homes are still in ruins and lacking essential services, but Fadhil said he felt an "indescribable joy" upon moving back in August
- US special envoy said he was in Beirut because he saw "real opportunity" to end the Israel-Hezbollah war
US special envoy said he was in Beirut because he saw "real opportunity" to end the Israel-Hezbollah war
"I came back because we have a real opportunity to bring this conflict to an end," Hochstein said
- Israel escalated strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut and Tyre, targeting strongholds, while Hezbollah launched retaliatory attacks on Haifa, hitting a...
Israel has escalated its bombing of Lebanon since September 23 and has since sent in ground troops, following almost a year of limited, cross-border exchanges of fire
Israel's military chief Hezbollah had already "paid a big price" but Israel will keep fighting until thousands of its residents displaced from the north can return safely
- Trump’s return could shift US policy on Israel, with his Republican Party's pro-Israel stance and his preference for "America First"...
Trump, unlike every other recent president, has never committed to a fully sovereign, independent Palestinian state
He leads a Republican Party so pro-Israel that some local offices handed out Israeli flags alongside Trump yard-signs
- Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel's repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the "war...
"Israel's actions appear to also meet the definition of ethnic cleansing"- HRW
1.9 million Palestinians were displaced in Gaza as of October 2024
- According to the latest draft of the long-sought climate finance pact, most developing countries favor an annual commitment from wealthy...
A new agreement to boost money for climate action in developing countries is the top priority
COP29 runs until November 22 but climate talks often run into overtime
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is set to visit Tehran on Wednesday for crucial talks on Iran's nuclear...Israel has warned Iran it was "more exposed than ever" to strikes on its nuclear facilities
Tehran has deactivated surveillance devices needed to monitor the nuclear program
