In an unprecedented move amid the deadly war, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Thursday that he plans to visit the Gaza Strip even as the Israeli offensive that to date has killed more than 40,000 people rages on. “I announce before you and the world that I have decided to go...

  Russia announced on Friday that intense fighting continues in its Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, as its armed forces work to repel a Ukrainian offensive.  The Russian Emergency Ministry has declared a federal state of emergency in the region, initially downplaying the...

Türkiye’s president on Thursday reaffirmed his call for the international community to halt Israel’s dangerous escalation of aggression, warning that it could hurl the region into a wider and even more destructive conflict. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara...

Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday appointed Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief. Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president on July 31, the group said in a statement on its Telegram...