The lower house of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, voted on Thursday to ratify a treaty of partnership between Russia and North Korea. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed the mutual defense pact during Putin’s visit to Pyongyang in June....

Three Lebanese Army soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike while attempting to rescue injured people from the aggressive forces' earlier attack on southern Lebanon, according to an official statement issued Thursday morning. The Israeli attack is the second deadliest on the Lebanese Army...

Hezbollah has confirmed the cleric tipped to become the group's next leader was killed in an Israeli air strike nearly three weeks ago. The Israeli military said on Tuesday night that it killed Hashem Safieddine in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. On Wednesday, Hezbollah put out a...

An UNRWA employee was killed in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, the latest aid worker death in the war-torn territory. “I can confirm that an UNRWA car was hit. One UNRWA colleague was killed,” UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma told...