The leader of Yemen's separatists is heading to Riyadh on Tuesday for talks, a Yemeni official told AFP, after days...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would not allow arch-foe Iran to restore its ballistic missile programme, just...
The United States, Egypt and Qatar are parties to the negotiations for the release of the hostages held by Hamas...Last year, the United States had made the release of part of this annual aid conditional on progress being made on respecting human rights in Egypt
This year, however, the State Department said Egypt had made "progress" in certain areas of human rights, and mentioned Cairo's help in mediating between Israel and Hamas
- As war has raged in the Gaza Strip following Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah has traded near-daily...
"We need to de-escalate military tensions," Borrell told
"We have to continue pushing for a comprehensive peace in the region," he said
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said late Wednesday that Israeli air strikes on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza killed six staffers...
UNRWA called it the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident
Rescuers said the strike killed 18 people, including UN staffers
- Mohammad Qassem al-Shaer, "a field commander" in the group's elite Radwan Force, "was targeted in an Israeli strike on a...
Hezbollah earlier announced Shaer had been killed by Israeli fire, but did not refer to him as a commander
The Israeli military said its air force had "eliminated the terrorist Mohammad Qassem al-Shaer" in the Bekaa Valley
- An abandoned tanker carrying more than one million barrels of crude oil could contaminate vast areas of the Red Sea...
Threatening an oil spill four times the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska
An attempt by private companies to tow away the burning ship was abandoned because it was "not safe"
- Gaza civil defence official Mohammed Al-Mughair told AFP early Tuesday that "40 martyrs and 60 injured were recovered and transferred"...
The strike hit Al-Mawasi - in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis - which was designated a safe zone by the Israeli military early in the war
Israel's military has occasionally carried out operations in and around the area, including a strike in July that it said killed Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif
- The vast majority of Gaza's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once during more than 11 months of...
Israel has issued numerous evacuation orders during its war against Gaza rulers Hamas
The evacuation orders have covered most of Gaza's territory, according to the UN
Jordanians will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote for a new parliament amid widespread frustrations over a lagging...A Jordanian killed three Israeli guards at the border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank
Public debt is approaching $50 billion and unemployment reached 21 percent in Q1
- "We have enough forces to deal with Gaza and we should concentrate on what is going on in the north,"...
Israel and Iran-backed Hizbollah have been trading near-daily cross-border fire, with the Lebanese militant group saying it is acting in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas
Gantz said Israel had made a mistake in evacuating much of the north of the country as hostilities with Hizbollah flared following the October 7 Hamas attack
Palestinian Territories - Hamas called on the United States Thursday to "exert real pressure" on Israel to reach a Gaza...The two sides have traded blame over stalling talks for a ceasefire and hostage exchange as Netanyahu faces pressure to seal a deal following the deaths of six Gaza captives
Hamas's Qatar-based lead negotiator Khalil al-Hayya called on the US to "exert real pressure on Netanyahu and his government" and "abandon their blind bias" towards Israel
