Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes on Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip after a "rocket" was fired from the Hamas-controlled enclave towards the Jewish state, its military said Monday. Israel said Sunday night a "projectile" fired from Gaza had been intercepted by its Iron Dome...

The Israeli army said Monday it had killed four men laying explosives at a security fence along the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights, adjacent to Syrian-controlled territory. "They were inside Israeli territory but beyond the fence," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel...

An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said. That's according to Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province. He says the...

The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide passed the 18-million mark on Monday, with the World Health Organization warning that the effects of the pandemic "will be felt for decades to come". The virus that causes Covid-19 has killed more than 687,000 people since it first emerged...