Lebanese armed group Hezbollah named Naim Qassem as its new leader on Tuesday but Israel said his tenure would be “temporary,” an apparent threat after it killed his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut over a month ago. “Temporary appointment. Not for long,” Israel’s Defense Minister...

President Vladimir Putin kicked off a new exercise of Russia’s nuclear forces on Tuesday at a critical point in the Ukraine war, the second such drill that Moscow has held in two weeks. The 2-1/2-year-old war is entering what Russian officials say is its most dangerous phase as Russian...

Russia said on Tuesday it had taken two eastern Ukrainian towns and open-source data indicated that Moscow’s forces were advancing at their fastest pace in at least a year amid signs the conflict is drawing in new players such as North Korea. The 2-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine is entering...

Gaza war mediator Qatar on Tuesday condemned the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel, the Gulf emirate’s foreign ministry said. Israeli lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly voted to ban the agency, UNRWA, from working in Israel...

Gaza’s civil defense agency said Tuesday that an overnight Israeli airstrike killed 93 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia. “The number of martyrs in the massacre of the Abu Nasr family home in Beit Lahia has risen to 93 martyrs, and about 40 are still...

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) condemned Israel’s decision Monday to ban it from operating in the country, calling the passage of the legislation “unprecedented” and warning of severe repercussions for Palestinians, particularly in Gaza.  “The vote by the...

Hundreds of Syrians protested in The Hague against Dutch government plans to return refugees to areas in Syria deemed safe, taking to the streets of the capital last Sunday. Coalition parties want to designate so-called “safe” zones before the end of the year so they can start returning...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan discussed in a phone call with Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi the importance of avoiding anything that might destabilize the region’s security, following Israel’s Saturday strikes on Iran, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Monday....

Hezbollah said its fighters targeted Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Monday, after earlier claiming repeated attacks on troops in the same area near the border. Hezbollah fighters targeted “an Israeli enemy troop gathering” near Wazzani village “with a rocket salvo,” the Iran-backed...

The number of Palestinians killed in the yearlong war in Gaza has passed 43,000, more than half of them women and children, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday. The tally includes 96 dead who arrived at hospitals in Gaza over the past two days, the ministry said. Israeli troops...

Lebanon said Monday it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south. The strike early Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaya in south Lebanon where more than a dozen...

The Israeli army on Sunday bombarded Al-Risalah Health Emergency Association in Ain Baal town of southern Lebanon, a health care center run by the Amal Movement political party, killing three of its members. Three people were killed in the Israeli forces attack on a newly established...

The death toll from Israel’s ongoing airstrikes on Lebanon since last year has reached 2,653, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. A ministry statement added that around 12,360 people have also been injured since hostilities began in October 023. Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern...

An Israeli journalist took part in detonating a civilian structure in southern Lebanon as the Israeli army intensified its air and ground assaults on the country, as shown in a video recently broadcast. Footage aired by Israeli Channel 12 showed news presenter Danny Kushmaro wearing a...

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Sunday that “painful concessions” would be needed to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza and that military action alone will not achieve the country’s war aims. “Not all objectives can be achieved through military operations alone... to...

The directors of the CIA and Israel’s Mossad will meet Qatar’s prime minister in Doha on Sunday to begin negotiations for a new short term Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of some hostages by Hamas in exchange for Israel’s release of Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the talks...

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday said Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic “should neither be exaggerated nor minimized.” “The evil perpetrated by the Zionist regime [Israel] two nights ago must not be exaggerated or minimized,” he said in a post on X. Without...

Lebanon’s health ministry said that five people have been killed and 13 others wounded on Sunday in an Israeli strike near the southern city of Sidon, revising an earlier toll. “The Israeli enemy’s raid on Haret Saida has killed five people,” the health ministry said, after revising initial...

Dozens of people are reported to be injured after a truck hit a bus stop near an Israeli military base in what is suspected to be a deliberate attack. At least six people are in a serious condition and others remain trapped under wreckage at the scene in Glilot, just north of Tel Aviv....

Four more Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 others injured in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday. A military statement said the fatalities occurred in battles with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Five of the injured soldiers were in serious condition, the statement added....