Some 1,390 illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, according to a Palestinian agency. The Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said the settlers entered the...

Israeli strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed at least 73 people on Saturday, medics and Hamas-affiliated media said. Dozens were also wounded in the strikes that hit several houses in Beit Lahiya, the medics added. The death toll from Israel's ongoing onslaught on...

At least 11 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in central Gaza’s Al Maghazi refugee camp, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said on Saturday, adding that there are still missing people under the rubble.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was due to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday to discuss the escalating Middle East crisis and migration. Scholz arrived in Istanbul on Friday night after a meeting with US President Joe Biden and the leaders of France and Britain in Berlin....

A drone was launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday, his spokesman said, adding that the premier was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties. Earlier, the Israeli military said that a drone was launched...

An Israeli autopsy found that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by a gunshot to the head, the New York Times reported on Friday. Dr Chen Kugel, who oversaw the autopsy, told the newspaper that Sinwar was first wounded in the arm by shrapnel, maybe from a missile or tank shell. The...

At least two people were killed in an Israeli strike near the Christian-majority town of Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday, in the first attack on the area by Israeli forces. The Israeli military was looking into the report of the strike in Jounieh, a...

The Palestinian militant group Hamas will likely replace Yahya Sinwar with a new political leader based outside Gaza while his brother - Mohammad Sinwar - is expected to assume a bigger role directing the war against Israel in the territory, experts say. In its leadership deliberations,...

Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader, Yahya Sinwar. “We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,” Qatar-based Hamas official...

The Israeli military said its troops killed two armed assailants on Friday who had crossed into Israel from Jordan and lightly wounded two soldiers, in a rare attack in the border area. “Two terrorists who crossed from Jordan into Israeli territory south of the Dead Sea were eliminated by...

The BRICS group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Putin hopes to build up BRICS - which has expanded to include...

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday made a rare rebuke to Iran and said Tehran’s envoy should be summoned over reported comments by a top Iranian official that it would be ready to help “negotiate” to implement a UN resolution on Lebanon. Lebanese PM Najib Mikati said in a...

The Israeli army claimed Thursday to have killed Hamas political chief Yahya Sinwar in a military operation in the Gaza Strip.  In an official statement on X, Israeli army spokesperson Avichae Adree confirmed “the elimination” of Sinwar in Gaza. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz also...

The US will intensify efforts with its partners to end the Israeli war on Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said shortly after reports of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israel.  In a statement, Blinken said Sinwar, over the past months, rebuffed efforts by the US and...

Aircraft on Thursday conducted the first humanitarian aid airdrop since mid-July over the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, which has been enduring continuous Israeli attacks for over a year.   Witnesses reported that unidentified planes dropped relief supplies...

Two people were killed and 15 others injured Thursday in Israeli airstrikes targeting two towns in the Baalbek-Hermel province, eastern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.  “An Israeli airstrike on the town of Yammoune in Baalbek-Hermel resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to...

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 N12...

A strike hit near the south Lebanon coastal city of Tyre on Thursday, AFPTV images showed, as official media reported an Israeli raid after Israel's military issued an evacuation call. AFPTV footage captured smoke billowing after the Israeli military on X warned residents in and near a...

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 south of...

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...