- The military said in a statement that "during a joint IDF (military), ISA (Shin Bet security agency), and Israel Police...
During the October 7 attacks, Palestinian fighters seized about 250 hostages, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Israel says around 130 are still in Gaza
Dozens of captives taken on October 7 were released during a one-week truce in November that also saw the release of more than 200 Palestinian captives held in Israeli jails
- The latest health scare came weeks after it emerged that Austin, 70, had kept previous hospital stays secret and had...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks "assumed the functions and duties" just before 5:00 pm (2200 GMT), Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said
Austin was "admitted into the critical care unit at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for supportive care and close monitoring," the Pentagon said
- "The Government of India welcomes the release of eight Indian nationals working for the Dahra Global company who were detained...
In October, India said it was "shocked" after a Qatari court had sentenced them to death, but the sentence was reduced in December
The Hindu newspaper reported the men were spying for a "third country", while the Times of India has said that "they were accused of spying for Israel."
- Saudi Arabia said it had disbursed $250 million in aid to the internationally-recognized government in Yemen. The money follows an...
The Yemeni government relocated to Aden, a port city on the southern coast, after the Iran-backed Houthis seized the capital Sanaa in 2014.
In 2015 Saudi Arabia mobilized an international coalition intended to oust the Houthis.
- "The Palestinian economy's dire outlook is worsening as the conflict persists," managing director Kristalina Georgieva told the World Governments Summit...
In the war-ravaged coastal territory, economic activity dropped 80 percent from October through December compared with a year earlier, the IMF chief said.
The IMF now sees the economies of the region expanding 2.9 percent this year, a decrease of half a percentage point from its October forecast.
- Yemen's Houthi rebels, supported by Iran, have launched dozens of attacks against ships in the Red Sea since November, targeting...
Secretary General Dominguez said IMO is working to ensure that "parties continue to talk so that the situation does not degenerate any further"
Many shipowners have decided to stop operating in the Red Sea, instead sending their ships on the longer route around the south of Africa
- Berrechid, Morocco -- Around this time every year, Moroccan wheat farmer Abderrahim Mohafid is usually preparing for his spring harvest, but...
Morocco has seen only about half the rainfall it did during the same period last year, the country's water minister Nizar Baraka told AFP.
The sector accounts for 14 percent of Morocco's exports, with exported produce seen as more profitable than that sold in domestic markets.
- Amir-Abdollahian met top officials in Beirut including Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a powerful ally of...
The minister said that any move by Israel on Lebanon will spell the "end of Netanyahu"
He was on his third visit to Beirut in over four months of hostilities





















