• Lebanon’s Hizbollah targets Israel base, wounding 14 soldiers

    Hours after the strike on Arab al-Aramshe, an Arab-majority village in northern Israel near the border, Israeli forces hit targets in eastern Lebanon, a Hizbollah source told AFP. According to the source, the strikes targeted a warehouse in Iaat, a residential area near Baalbek, and "lightly" wounded one man.
  • Three UAE soldiers, Bahraini officer killed in Somali attack

    The United Arab Emirates' defense ministry said that the soldiers were "exposed to a terrorist act" while "performing their work duties in training and qualifying the Somali Armed Forces". The ministry, without giving further details, said that two others were wounded in the incident.
  • China, Russia blame US for stoking Middle East tensions

    The US forces targeted many positions in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for a drone attack on a base in Jordan that killed three US soldiers. The strikes, which targeted elite Iranian units and pro-Iranian militant groups, have led to fears that the ongoing war in Gaza could spiral into...
  • Hizbollah missile attack wounds 9 Israeli soldiers

    The army said that one of its soldiers injured by an anti-tank missile along with other troopers was in a serious condition. The army blamed Hizbollah for constant firing at Israeli "civilian and religious sites". Hizbollah, which on Tuesday announced the death of two of its fighters, says it is acting...
  • Gaza war exacting ‘heavy price’ on Israel army: Netanyahu

    Israeli prime minister said that in spite of the high toll in Gaza, the country had no choice but to keep fighting. He said the military campaign will continue with full force "until the end, until victory." Israel says it has lost some 154 troops in Gaza since it began...
  • Three Lebanese soldiers wounded in Israeli attack

    According to a medical source quoted by media, Israeli artillery fire targeted the " vicinity of a Lebanese army post in Ras el-Naqura, lightly injuring three soldiers". The attack on Lebanese army on Friday follows Israeli cross-border shelling on Tuesday that killed two people, including a Lebanese soldier, escalating the...
  • Israel reports killing of nine soldiers in battle with Hamas fighters

    Jerusalem--Nine Israeli soldiers were killed during combat operations in Gaza on Tuesday, the military said, bringing the total number of troops killed since October 7 to 326. Two soldiers were also seriously wounded in fighting in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday, according to the military, which has been waging a...
  • Saudi Arabia denounces attack that killed two Bahrain soldiers

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned an attack on its territory that killed two Bahraini military personnel near the border with war-torn Yemen. Bahrain's military said late Monday that one officer and one enlisted soldier had been killed in what it described as a drone attack perpetrated by Yemen's Houthi...
  • Three Iraqi soldiers killed in country’s north, says military official

    Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others wounded in a pre-dawn attack in the country's north blamed on the Islamic State group, a military official said. The assailants used automatic weapons in the attack on their barracks, about 25 kilometers west of the city of Kirkuk, the official said...
  • Three Israeli, Egyptian dead in cross border firing

    Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt's security forces were killed in a rare exchange of fire near the border between the two countries, official sources from both sides said. The Israeli army said an Egyptian assailant shot dead two soldiers " while they secured a military post at...
  • More than 50 killed in Syria attack blamed on Islamic State

    In one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the IS this year, some 53 people were killed on Friday in an ambush in central Syria. According to the director of Palmyra hospital, those killed were 46 civilians and seven soldiers. State television said that the slain were truffle hunting...
  • ‘Israeli troops kill Palestinian driver as car speeds off’

    Israeli troops killed a Palestinian driver in West Bank, officials on both sides said, with the army saying the car had hit a soldier's leg before speeding off. Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda, 26, died from "a bullet wound to the head fired by the occupation (Israeli) soldiers in Hebron,"...
  • Israel forces kill Palestinian in alleged knife attack

    Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described as a "stabbing attack". The ministry said that Arref Abdel Nasser Arref Lahlouh, 22, was killed "by Israeli gunfire," near the city of Qalqilya. Lahlou is the 19th Palestinian killed...
  • Israeli missile strike on Damascus airport kills two soldiers

    Two Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli missile strike on Damascus International Airport, according to the country's state news agency SANA. The missile strike put the airport out of service, the news agency reported, quoting a military source who said that the Israel attacked with "barrages of missiles, targeting...
  • Israel PM says FBI won’t quiz troops over journalist’s death

    Outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Israeli soldiers "will not be interrogated" by the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The veteran Al Jazeera reporter was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on...
  • Balkans library keeps alive its Ottoman link; helps villagers become highly literate

    Thanks to a gift of books from passing Ottoman soldiers in the late 19th century, a hamlet in the Balkans continues to revel in its reputation of being a "village of enlightenment."
  • Israel attacks Damascus, kills five Syrian soldiers

    Five Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike near Damascus airport, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said that the strikes also killed two Iran-backed fighters. Israeli airstrikes in June put Damascus airport out of service for nearly two weeks.
  • Teenager killed by Israeli forces in West Bank: Palestinian sources

    A Palestinian teenager died from his wounds hours after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources said Saturday.
  • Two Turkish soldiers killed in military operation in Iraq

    Another two Turkish soldiers have been killed during military operations against Kurdish militants in the north of Iraq, Turkey's defense ministry and media said Sunday.
  • Taliban put victory over United States on display

    On display in the Governor's compound of Ghazni province is a concrete slab is inscribed with the names and regiments of US troops who served in the province during America's longest war.
  • Most forest fires under control: Algerian authorities

    Algeria is Africa’s biggest country by surface area, and although much of the interior is desert, the north has over four million hectares of forest, which is hit every summer by fires. Last year some 44,000 hectares went up in flames. Firefighters were still struggling on Sunday to put out...
  • Two Turkish soldiers killed in northern Syria

    Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016 in order to drive away from its border region Daesh militants and Syrian Kurdish militia forcesÂ