Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still insists on maintaining control over the Philadelphi Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, the public broadcaster KAN said Thursday. "The prime minister has not changed his position on the need for Israeli control and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for hindering the negotiations over a cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, said an Israeli source familiar with the talks, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Israeli public broadcaster KAN quoted the anonymous source as saying...

About a half-dozen doctors who recently returned from providing medical care in the devastated Gaza Strip urged the Biden administration Tuesday to impose an immediate arms embargo on Israel, saying that without one, the US remains complicit in the bloodshed that has devastated the coastal...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday paid a visit to three Caucasian regions – Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, and Chechnya. During his trip to Kabardino-Balkaria, Putin met with the republic’s head, Kazbek Kokov, who informed the president about the region’s achievements, the...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a new “bridging proposal” for a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, but Hamas said the proposal in fact "meets Netanyahu's conditions” and fits his agenda. Speaking to reporters in...

At least 16,480 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since last Oct. 7, local authorities said on Monday. “The victims included 115 babies,” Ismail Thawabteh, who heads Gaza’s government media office, told Anadolu. He said 35 Palestinian children...

US President Joe Biden said Sunday he believes that a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip is "still possible." The talks are "still underway. We're not giving up. (It’s) still possible," Biden told reporters. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Sunday in Israel to push for a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the goal of the incursion into Russia's Kursk region was to create a "buffer zone," an area serving to separate Ukraine from Russia and delay Moscow's military actions. In an interview, released late Sunday on his official Telegram account,...

At least 20 Palestinians, including a woman and her six children, were killed on Sunday when the Israeli army targeted several areas in Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told Anadolu that a woman and her six children were killed and several others injured in an...

The Russian Atomic Corporation (Rosatom) informed the UN's nuclear watchdog on Saturday about Ukraine's alleged plans to carry out a provocation, involving two nuclear power plants and subsequently accuse Moscow of doing it. Head of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev called the International Atomic...

Lebanon's power utility company announced Saturday a nationwide power outage, including at Beirut's airport and port. The Electricity of Lebanon said in a statement that the last group of production units at the Zahrani Power Plant, which supplies the country with electricity, went offline...

The Israeli army killed 69 more Palestinians in attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 40,074 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday. A ministry statement added that some 92,537 other people have been injured in the ongoing deadly...

US President Joe Biden said Friday he is "optimistic" about a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip. "As of an hour ago, it’s still in play. I’m optimistic. Not — it’s far from over. Just a couple more issues. I think we’ve got a shot," Biden told reporters when asked about the talks. "That...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday claimed that his country’s forces have taken control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched an incursion last week.
 In a video statement following a staff meeting, Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian...

Negotiations to secure a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and facilitating a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas resumed Thursday in Qatar, though the talks face significant challenges due to four key conditions from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  The conditions,...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem by radical Israelis, including a minister. "The United States strongly opposes Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple...

An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the release of five Israeli soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee into house arrest pending investigation, according to local media.  The soldiers will stay under house arrest for 10 days until Aug. 22 under an...

At least two Israeli ministers on Tuesday joined hundreds of Israeli illegal settlers in storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to mark a Jewish event. According to the Israeli Ynet news website, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, his fellow Otzma...

Hamas fired two rockets at Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv on Tuesday for the first time in months and Israeli airstrikes killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza, as mediators aimed to resume ceasefire talks later in the week. There were no reports of casualties in Israel. Two rockets had...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Ukraine was trying to undermine Russian stability with its incursion into the south of the country but that it would not succeed. “The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces are increasing dramatically for them, including among the most...