After two years of war, the ruined cities of Gaza, a densely packed territory home to more than two million...
- The world's two top economies' trade tussle -- encompassing everything from rare earths to soybeans and port fees -- has rocked...
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
- Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP that at least 20 were killed in a strike on a...
The Gaza City strikes added to at least 120 deaths over the previous 48 hours which the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reported earlier Saturday
Exchanges of fire across the Lebanese border between Israel and the powerful Iran-backed group Hezbollah have also escalated, raising fears of wider war
- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's group and Israeli forces have exchanged near-daily fire since Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel...
Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a deadly air strike in south Lebanon
Experts are divided on the prospect of wider war
Hassan Nasrallah - whose powerful Iran-backed group has exchanged near-daily fire with Israel since its ally Hamas's October 7 attack...Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said "no place" in Israel would "be spared our rockets", in a televised address broadcast amid spiraling tensions across the Israel-Lebanon border
Meanwhile, the war between Israel and Hamas raged in Gaza, with Israeli air strikes and clashes between troops and Palestinian fighters
- Palestinian Territories - The Israeli army on Tuesday said plans for an offensive in Lebanon were "approved and validated" amid...
The war in Gaza has heightened tensions across the region, with Israeli forces and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, exchanging fire on a near-daily basis
Al-Awda hospital said it received the bodies of "six martyrs and 15 wounded as a result of Israeli air strikes on various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip."
- Two cruise missiles launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels struck a bulk cargo carrier in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday,...
The M/V Verbena -- a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated ship -- "reported damage and fires on board
The Huthis on Thursday said they had carried out attacks on three ships within the past 24 hours
- On Monday, the UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting the plan, and on Thursday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz...
Israeli ground forces have operated in Rafah since early May, despite widespread alarm over the fate of Palestinian civilians there
Hamas said its fighters were battling Israeli troops on the streets of the city near the besieged Gaza Strip's border with Egypt
- "More than 10 people were injured, mainly men from the Arbil civil defense," said the Iraqi civil defense in a...
The fire broke out in a major crude oil tank on Wednesday night
The civil defense agency said the fire "started in one refinery before spreading to another"
- Doha, Qatar - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken said Wednesday that a truce and hostage release deal to end the Gaza...
Blinken, in Doha for the last stop of a tour to promote President Joe Biden's Gaza ceasefire roadmap, said the United States would work with regional partners to "close the deal."
Hamas submitted late Tuesday its response to mediators Qatar and Egypt, and Blinken said some of the proposed amendments "are workable and some are not."
- The Houthis, who are at war with a Saudi-led coalition after ousting the government from Sanaa in 2014, have launched...
The ship was hit about 68 nautical miles (126 kilometres) southwest of the rebel-held port city of Hodeida, maritime security firm Ambrey had said earlier in the day
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is run by Britain's Royal Navy, said a vessel was "hit on the stern by a small craft" 66 nautical miles southwest of Hodeida
