Beirut, Lebanon--Lebanon's Iran-backed Hizbollah group warned Tuesday that Israel will pay for killing high-level Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in a strike on the country's consulate in Damascus, Syria, the day before. Hizbollah has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas since the Gaza war erupted in...

According to a security source, who did not want to be identified, the target was Mohammad Assaf of Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese anti-Israel resistance group closely linked to Palestinian group Hamas. Assaf was travelling on the road that was struck at the time of the attack, said the source.

A senior US official told reporters that the framework agreement envisages a six-week cessation of hostilities, which could begin immediately if the Palestinian movement Hamas signs off on the release of the most vulnerable hostages it holds. The official said that the Israelis have "more or less accepted it."

According to MSF, the attack killed the daughter-in-law and wife of one of their colleagues, and wounded six people, including five women and children. The incident took place on Tuesday when an Israeli tank fired on a house sheltering the employees and their families in Al-Mawasi area on Gaza's coast.

A Lebanese security official said the Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon "killed a member of Hizbollah's protection team", adding that the senior commander he was protecting "escaped death". Since the war began between Hamas and Israel, the Lebanese-Israeli border has seen near-daily exchanges of fire between Israel's...

Gaza's health ministry said that more than 60 people were killed and dozens wounded in "intense" strikes and artillery fire across Gaza. The Hamas government media office said two hospitals, a girls' school and "dozens" of homes were hit overnight. Hospitals in Gaza have been hit repeatedly since the start...

In a statement, Hizbollah said that it targeted the "enemy's northern command centre" in the Israeli city of Safed with "several suicide drones". The attack, according to Hizbollah, an ally of Hamas, was part of its response to the killings of top field commander Wissam Tawil on Monday and Hamas...

Pope Francis spoke a day after the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said a Christian mother and daughter had been shot dead by an Israeli soldier on the grounds of the Gaza Strip's only Catholic church. He said at the end of the Angelus prayer that he continues to receive "very serious...

Tehran, Iran-- President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has warned of an escalation in the war in Palestine if in his worlds the Zionist regime of Israel doesn't stop the killing of the people of Gaza and end the blockade of the enclave. He made the remarks in a phone call...

Nearly a week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of being responsible for the killing of a Sikh activist, hundreds of Sikh protesters rallied outside Indian diplomatic missions in Canada on Monday, trampling pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and burning flags. Many protestors said they don't feel...

The diplomatic spat has grown fierce in the hours since Canada blamed India for being behind the killing of a Sikh leader last June and expelled its intelligence chief from the country. New Delhi has followed suit, expelling a senior Canadian diplomat. In the meantime, the UK and Australia have...

France has been rocked by a major wave of violent street protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old of Algerian origin, identified only as Nahel M., in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday. The government has deployed tens of thousands of security forces and made hundreds...

In a rare acknowledgment, the Israeli army said that it "failed" to prevent an attack by Jewish settlers on a Palestinian village in the West Bank in which one villager was killed. Revenge attacks on Turmus Ayya and other villages followed the killing of four Israelis by Palestinian gunmen on...

Following the killing of three people in the West Bank and Tel Aviv, Israel has mobilized police and army reserves in the latest escalation of violence in the Middle East. In spite of appeals for restraint, violence has spiked since Israel police stormed into Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday and beat...

President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran has vowed to avenge the killing of a top Iranian general three years ago in a US drone strike. General Qassem Soleimani was ordered to be killed by then US President Donald Trump. The Iranian general commanded the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of...

Beirut, Lebanon--Lebanese investigators have identified suspects in the fatal shooting of an Irish United Nations peacekeeper whose vehicle came under fire earlier this month, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday. Private Sean Rooney, 23, was killed and three others injured on December 14 when their UN Interim Force in Lebanon...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories— The Israeli air force said it had carried out overnight air strikes against sites of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave towards Israeli territory. The Israeli army reported on Saturday evening a rocket had been fired...

Accusing smugglers of being behind the "heinous killing" of 15 migrants near the Mediterranean coastal city of Sabratha, the United Nations mission in Libya said the bodies were found on a beach with most of them burned inside a charred boat. It called for a swift investigation to bring "all...

United Nations has warned of the outbreak of new phase of violence in Libya as the country faces delays in moving toward elections. Last week heavy gunfire and shelling broke out in many neighborhoods of Tripoli, leaving 32 people dead. The rival prime ministers of the country blamed each other...

Tension spiked between Turkey and Syria after the former launched air strikes on Syrian border posts, killing 17 fighters. It is still not clear if the victims were affiliated with the government or Kurdish forces. The Damascus government has threatened to launch a retaliatory attack against Turkey.

Israeli air strikes near Damascus on Wednesday killed 10 combatants, among them six Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said. Government media in Syria confirmed four casualties in the strikes, on which Israel did not comment.

Iran on Friday buried a second Shiite Muslim cleric killed in a suspected jihadist attack at a revered shrine in the country's north, state television reported. Sadegh Darai, a middle-ranking cleric, died Thursday from wounds sustained in the stabbing attack earlier this week in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city. Another cleric,...

Seven protesters have been killed in Sudan since a military coup four days ago, a health official said Thursday, adding that other bodies had since arrived without giving an exact number.

Shadi Omar Lotfi Salim, 41, was shot dead near the flashpoint Palestinian village of Beita, the Palestinian health ministry said