US President Donald Trump on Sunday said a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy that killed at least 34 people was "a horrible thing."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military had "unintentionally" killed the aid workers, calling it a "tragic case" that would be investigated. The aid workers' deaths come as relentless Israeli strikes continue to pound the territory, flattening critical infrastructure, all but collapsing the health system and pushing the population...

In a statement, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani "strongly condemned" the attack and said that Iran "reserves the right to carry out a reaction and will decide on the type of response and the punishment of the aggressor." Iran's ambassador in Damascus, Hossein Akbari, said, "the five-storey consulate building...

Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught Shakespeare among other subjects, was also one of the co-founders of the "We are not numbers" project, which pairs authors from Gaza with mentors abroad who help them write stories in English about their experiences....

Cairo, Israel - The areas near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and Al-Quds Hospital in the western part of the Gaza Strip have been shelled by Israel's air force, Palestine's WAFA news agency reported, according to Russia's TASS news agency. WAFA said that the strikes aimed to hinder the operations...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the strikes targeted several military positions of Syrian government forces and pro-Iran groups in Homs. The NGO said explosions rocked the city and a fire broke out in a research centre, with ambulances heading to the scene of the...

The Britain-based Observatory, which has a wide network of sources on the ground, said 19 people were killed in the first wave of US strikes: three Syrian soldiers and 16 members of Iran-backed militias. After the strikes, Biden sought to lower the temperature saying the US "does not seek conflict...

Israeli airstrikes targeting a weapons depot in Syria killed two pro-Iran fighters and wounded three soldiers, a war monitor said. "Israeli strikes targeted a weapons depot belonging to pro-Iran forces located... between Tartus and Hama provinces," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes were targeting Iranian-aligned militia, causing "several casualties." Israeli strikes, the Britain-based war monitor said, targeted positions and depots of arms and ammunition of Iran-affiliated militias. It reported multiple heavy explosions that sparked fires and resulted in "several victims"

Egypt has been working behind-the-scenes to bring about de-escalation in the hostilities between Israel and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Hamas.

Israeli warplanes hit Hamas military sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave run by the Islamist movement, the Israeli army said.

Syrian air defense intercepted Israeli missiles south of Damascus on Monday, with no casualties reported, a military source told Syria's official news agency SANA. "The Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting points south of Damascus," with Syria's air defense intercepting most of the missiles,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the West and Ukraine are responsible for the ongoing war, telling his country's Victory Day parade that Russia now faces an 'absolutely unacceptable threat.'

The new Samir Mansour bookshop, funded by an international donor campaign, stands some 200 meters from the original site, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Poor or inadequate surveillance footage often contributed to deadly targeting failures.