The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Saturday that unknown gunfire a day earlier hit a peacekeeper, the fifth wounded in south Lebanon near the Israeli border in just two days. “Last night, a peacekeeper at UNIFIL’s headquarters” in Naqura “was hit by gunfire...

Iran  said it is “fully prepared to defend its sovereignty” if its arch-foe Israel attacks, as it has threatened to do in response to a barrage of about 200 missiles. The Islamic republic launched the missiles at Israel on October 1 in retaliation for the killing of two of its...

Israel on Friday condemned a UN probe which concluded it was deliberately seeking to destroy healthcare in the Gaza Strip and abusing Palestinian detainees, branding the findings as “outrageous.” The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) said Israel had...

Israel’s army said Friday it had killed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad’s top commander for the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The military said Mohammad Abdullah was “eliminated” on Thursday after Israeli aircraft struck the camp in Tulkarem. An...