The UN Security Council voted Friday in favor of a resolution backing Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara as the...
Israel said it struck an arms dump in Gaza on Wednesday, hours after the deadliest night of bombing since the...
Israel's military has accused Hamas of using hospitals in the Gaza Strip as a cover for military operations. It has...Al-Shifa hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya was among dozens of Palestinians released and returned to Gaza for treatment
Abu Salmiya said he and other prisoners were put through "severe torture" in Israeli prisons
- 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 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
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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
