Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Sunday that “painful concessions” would be needed to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza and that military action alone will not achieve the country’s war aims. “Not all objectives can be achieved through military operations alone... to...

The directors of the CIA and Israel’s Mossad will meet Qatar’s prime minister in Doha on Sunday to begin negotiations for a new short term Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of some hostages by Hamas in exchange for Israel’s release of Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the talks...

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday said Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic “should neither be exaggerated nor minimized.” “The evil perpetrated by the Zionist regime [Israel] two nights ago must not be exaggerated or minimized,” he said in a post on X. Without...

Lebanon’s health ministry said that five people have been killed and 13 others wounded on Sunday in an Israeli strike near the southern city of Sidon, revising an earlier toll. “The Israeli enemy’s raid on Haret Saida has killed five people,” the health ministry said, after revising initial...

The Israeli military said its forces killed a Palestinian fighter who belonged to Hamas’s armed wing during a raid on Saturday in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. In a joint statement, the Israeli military, police and domestic security agency Shin Bet said that they conducted a...

Lebanon’s health ministry said a Hezbollah-affiliated paramedic was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike on a medical center in south Lebanon, which left five others wounded, three of them Hezbollah-linked paramedics. “The Israeli enemy’s raid on a medical center in Bazuriyeh resulted in”...

At least 10 police officers were killed in a “terrorist attack” in an area of southeastern Iran long plagued by unrest, local media reported on Saturday. They were killed during an attack on “police vehicles” in Sistan-Baluchistan province’s Taftan county, the Mehr and Tasnim news agencies...

The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had completed targeted airstrikes on Iranian military facilities. The army said the airstrikes targeted missile manufacturing facilities believed to have produced missiles that were launched at Israel over the last year. The strikes were...

Russia earlier this year provided satellite data to help Yemen’s Houthis strike ships in the Red Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The US daily - citing “a person familiar with the matter” and two anonymous European defense officials - reported that the data was transmitted by...

North Korea said Friday that any troop deployment to Russia would be in line with international law, state media reported, but stopped short of confirming it had sent soldiers. “If there is such a thing that the world media is talking about, I think it will be an act conforming with the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had proposed reviving contacts on Black Sea shipping but that he had not yet had time to study the documents. Turkey and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have long been seeking to get merchant shipping...

Children in Gaza are dying in pain for want of emergency treatment as a result of Israeli authorities approving fewer and fewer of them for medical evacuation following the closure of the Rafah crossing, United Nations agencies said on Friday. Whereas before almost 300 children were being...

The UN rights chief said the “darkest moment” of the conflict in Gaza was unfolding in the north of the territory, warning Friday that Israel’s actions could amount to “atrocity crimes.” Volker Turk pointed out that already “more than 150,000 people are reportedly dead, wounded or missing...

United Nations peacekeepers said Friday that Israeli soldiers fired at one of their observation posts in south Lebanon this week, adding the security situation was “extremely challenging” amid other unidentified attacks. “IDF (Israeli army) soldiers fired at” an observation post near the...

The World Health Organization said it had lost contact on Friday with staff at northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital, after the Israeli army said it was operating in the area. Gaza’s health ministry said hundreds of patients and staff were detained at Kamal Adwan Hospital. “Since...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that negotiators will meet in the coming days on reaching a Gaza truce as he again called for Israel and Hamas to strike a deal. “We talked about options to capitalize on this moment and next steps to move the process forward, and I...

China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that it was not aware of North Korean troops being in Russia, after the United States said it had seen evidence that North Korea had sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday...

Hezbollah said Thursday it targeted an Israeli military base near Haifa, the second time within 24 hours it has said it targeted the facility. Hezbollah fighters “bombed” the “defense industry” base “north of the city of Haifa with a salvo of rockets,” a statement said, after claiming an...

Germany will provide a further 96 million euros ($103.57 million) in humanitarian and development aid to Lebanon, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Thursday ahead of a meeting of some 70 delegations in Paris focused on helping the country. “We are making it clear that we not only...

Authorities in Türkiye announced the identities of the victims a terrorist attack Wednesday on the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) in the capital. Cengiz Coskun, a quality control officer at the company, mechanical engineer Zahide Guclu, TAI employee Hasan Huseyin Canbaz,...