Members of Israel’s security cabinet have been informed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the devastating Oct. 7, 2023 attack that triggered the Gaza war, is very likely dead, two officials with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. Two of Israel’s broadcasters, KAN and...

Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday its forces had captured a small village in Ukraine’s east as part of its advance in the Donetsk region toward the logistics hub of Pokrovsk. Russian troops “liberated” the village of Maksymilyanivka, near the town of Kurakhove, which lies...

The health ministry in Gaza said on Thursday that at least 42,438 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll includes 29 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 99,246 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since...

A German warship operating as part of the United Nations’ UNIFIL peacekeeping mission brought down an unmanned flying object off the coast of Lebanon on Thursday, a spokesperson for the German defense ministry told Reuters. “The corvette brought an unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle...