Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed on Monday his government ministers to refrain from making public statements related to security issues. This move comes amid growing expectations in Israel of potential retaliatory attacks from Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah in...

A fire broke out Sunday in Europe's largest nuclear power plant, located in southern Ukraine, while the UN's atomic energy watchdog saying nuclear safety was not affected. Experts observed "strong dark smoke" from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's northern area after explosions were...

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas demanded Sunday that Gaza cease-fire mediators present a plan to implement a proposal supported by US President Joe Biden that it had agreed upon on July 2. The group released a statement requesting the mediators "present a plan to implement what they...

The Israeli military has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel claimed it had targeted a militant command post and killed 19 fighters. Israel...

Iran on Saturday said it wanted to avoid negatively impacting Gaza cease-fire talks with its anticipated retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh last month. Achieving a permanent cease-fire in Gaza remains a priority, Iran's permanent...

Most people injured in an Israeli strike that hit a school in Gaza City early on Saturday suffered severe wounds, including full-body burns and loss of limbs, the director of the Baptist Hospital in the city told Anadolu. "This day is one of the most challenging in the ongoing war," Dr....

At least 100 Palestinians were killed early Saturday when the Israeli military bombed the Al-Taba'een school in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. The school was housing displaced residents. Dozens were injured in the attack. Israeli military aircraft targeted the school...

US troops in north-eastern Syria were attacked by a drone, a US official told Reuters on Friday, although there were no injuries according to initial reports. This is the second attack in recent days against US forces in the Middle East as the region braces for a possible new wave of...

Algerian Imane Khelif won gold in women's boxing at the Paris Olympics amid gender controversy. Khelif, 25, was crowned champion after beating Yang Liu from China 5-0 in the 66kg final at Roland-Garros Stadium. The Algerian national had been disqualified from the 2023 World...

  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...

Bombardment by pro-Iranian groups supporting the Syrian government killed 11 civilians in an eastern village under the control of the YPG group, a war monitor said on Aug. 9. Six children were among the victims of intense shelling of the east banks of the Euphrates in Dahla in the Deir...

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 with...

The Israeli army killed 22 more Palestinians in attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 39,699 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Thursday. A ministry statement added that some 91,722 others have been injured in the assault. “Israeli forces killed...

Testimony from released Palestinian prisoners shows how Israeli authorities have turned more than a dozen prison facilities into places where Palestinian detainees waste away, with food rations cut to starvation levels.  A freed Palestinian prisoner reported that Israeli guards...

At least nine people were killed and 14 injured Wednesday in a car bomb attack in Syria's northern city of Azaz, according to sources. The car exploded at a road checkpoint controlled by opposition forces. Those injured were transported to Azaz Hospital as security measures were intensified in...

  Thousands of Palestinians were forcibly ordered to leave their areas in Beit Hanoun town, the northern Gaza Strip, upon orders by the Israeli army on Wednesday. The Israeli army earlier ordered the evacuation of Beit Hanoun and its surrounding areas in preparation for a military...

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Tuesday that it destroyed a Houthi drone and missiles launched from Yemen over the Red Sea in the past 24 hours. "In the past 24 hours, U.S. Central Command forces successfully destroyed one Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle and two...

The appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the head of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas's political bureau is both a surprise and a message to Israel that he is alive, the official Israeli Broadcasting Authority, KAN, said late Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Hamas announced that Sinwar, 61, would...

Economic observers, via the Syrian regime's media, called on the Central Bank to print new banknotes larger than the 5,000 lira denomination to avoid the risks of carrying large amounts of money, especially for merchants. The Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Damascus University,...

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...