Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday vowed to prevent Hezbollah from returning to fighting positions along the border, even after the Israeli military withdraws from the area. “Even once [Israeli] troops withdraw, we will not allow Hezbollah terrorists to return to these areas,”...

The United States said on Sunday it will send to Israel an advanced anti-missile system – and US troops to operate it – in a bid to bolster the country’s air defenses following missile attacks by Iran. US President Joe Biden said he was sending the system “to defend Israel.” Pentagon...

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since last October rose to 2,306, with 10,698 others injured, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said 51 people were killed and 174 others injured over the last 24 hours. Israel has mounted massive...

Hamas on Sunday described the Israeli army's targeting of a group of children playing at the al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City a “horrific crime.” At least five Palestinian children were killed and 12 others, including women and children, were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the...

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 due to...

The situation with children in the Gaza Strip is similar to Japan's, after nuclear bombs struck at the end of World War II, said Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Nobel Peace Prize winning group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. “In Gaza, bleeding children are...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed escalating Mideast tensions Friday amid Israel's onslaught in the Gaza Strip and attacks in Lebanon, according to Saudi Arabia’s official news agency SPA. The two leaders also discussed efforts to reduce...

Israeli forces on Friday launched another attack on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring several Sri Lankan peacekeepers stationed there. According to Lebanon's official National News Agency, an Israeli Merkava tank targeted one of UNIFIL's...

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 closest...

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 additional...

At least two people were killed and nine others were injured in an Israeli strike that hit a central neighborhood in the Lebanese capital on Thursday evening, an area that had not been previously hit, two Lebanese security source told Reuters. The strike targeted at least one senior figure...

Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities, a UN Commission said on Thursday....

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Thursday diplomatic communications have intensified ahead of a UN Security Council session on Thursday to reach a temporary cease-fire with Israel. “There are ongoing contacts between the US and France, which called the Security Council...

An Israeli strike hit a road linking Syria and Lebanon Thursday as Israel tries  to cut off supply routes of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah,  a war monitor said. Israel has increased it strikes on Syria since it upped its air raids on what it says are targets of Hezbollah in...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Qatari counterpart in Doha on Thursday, after Israel warned it would  retaliate against his country for a missile attack last week . Qatar has played a key role in efforts to secure a Gaza ceasefire and has called for a truce in Lebanon,...

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Thursday that its headquarters in southern Lebanon has been repeatedly shelled amid an Israeli onslaught on the country. “This morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an Israeli Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at...

Syrian state media reported an Israeli attack in central Homs province early Thursday, after an  Israeli strike  hit the country’s south the previous day. “An Israeli attack” targeted an industrial area in the town of Hassia, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the city of...

At least 45 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 42,010, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Wednesday. A ministry statement added that some 97,720 others were injured in the ongoing assault.

Tehran rejects “accusations” put forward by a British security official, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday, a day after UK’s MI5 spy chief said 20 Iran-backed potentially lethal plots had been disrupted in Britain since January 2022.