US President Joe Biden said Sunday he believes that a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip is "still possible." The talks are "still underway. We're not giving up. (It’s) still possible," Biden told reporters. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Sunday in Israel to push for a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the goal of the incursion into Russia's Kursk region was to create a "buffer zone," an area serving to separate Ukraine from Russia and delay Moscow's military actions. In an interview, released late Sunday on his official Telegram account,...

At least 20 Palestinians, including a woman and her six children, were killed on Sunday when the Israeli army targeted several areas in Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told Anadolu that a woman and her six children were killed and several others injured in an...

US President Joe Biden said Friday he is "optimistic" about a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip. "As of an hour ago, it’s still in play. I’m optimistic. Not — it’s far from over. Just a couple more issues. I think we’ve got a shot," Biden told reporters when asked about the talks. "That...

Lebanon's power utility company announced Saturday a nationwide power outage, including at Beirut's airport and port. The Electricity of Lebanon said in a statement that the last group of production units at the Zahrani Power Plant, which supplies the country with electricity, went offline...

At least 10 Syrians were killed and five more civilians injured in an overnight Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanese towns. According to the Lebanese National News Agency, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported on Saturday that a recent Israeli air raid on the Wadi al-Kfour area in...

The Israeli army killed 69 more Palestinians in attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 40,074 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday. A ministry statement added that some 92,537 other people have been injured in the ongoing deadly...

The Russian Atomic Corporation (Rosatom) informed the UN's nuclear watchdog on Saturday about Ukraine's alleged plans to carry out a provocation, involving two nuclear power plants and subsequently accuse Moscow of doing it. Head of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev called the International Atomic...

Negotiations to secure a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and facilitating a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas resumed Thursday in Qatar, though the talks face significant challenges due to four key conditions from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  The conditions,...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday claimed that his country’s forces have taken control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched an incursion last week.
 In a video statement following a staff meeting, Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian...

A military adviser from Iran's Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace force, Colonel Ahmadreza Afshari, has died from injuries sustained in Syria, according to a report by IRGC-affiliated media. "Colonel Ahmadreza Afshari was martyred today [on Thursday] due to injuries sustained from aerial...

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...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem by radical Israelis, including a minister. "The United States strongly opposes Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple...

A base housing US-led coalition troops in north-eastern Syria was attacked using a drone on Friday, a US official and a war monitor said. “Initial reports do not indicate any injuries, however medical evaluations are ongoing. We are currently conducting a damage assessment,” the US official...

An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the release of five Israeli soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee into house arrest pending investigation, according to local media.  The soldiers will stay under house arrest for 10 days until Aug. 22 under an...

At least two Israeli ministers on Tuesday joined hundreds of Israeli illegal settlers in storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to mark a Jewish event. According to the Israeli Ynet news website, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, his fellow Otzma...

Hamas fired two rockets at Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv on Tuesday for the first time in months and Israeli airstrikes killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza, as mediators aimed to resume ceasefire talks later in the week. There were no reports of casualties in Israel. Two rockets had...

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Jordan and Syria late on Monday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), with residents across both countries and in Lebanon feeling its impacts but no immediate reports of fatalities. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles),...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Ukraine was trying to undermine Russian stability with its incursion into the south of the country but that it would not succeed. “The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces are increasing dramatically for them, including among the most...

The humanitarian situation in embattled Sudan is at "a catastrophic, cataclysmic breaking point," a UN body said Monday. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued a warning as famine and floods "add to the catalogue of challenges" facing millions of people struggling to cope...