Israeli military analyst Amos Harel on Friday said the army wants to withdraw from Gaza, but that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has other ideas." In an analytical article in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Harel said Netanyahu “continues to declare that the all-out war against Hamas will...

MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard on Thursday recovered 12 more bodies from a  weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea  off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies, including...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish judge on Thursday acquitted a former Syrian army general of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in his home country more than a decade ago, saying prosecutors failed to provide evidence of his involvement in the war crimes. Brig. Gen. Mohammed Hamo, who...

A document  revealed  by Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday that the  Syrian  regime had instructed regime forces to institute a full siege on  al-Rukban  refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border on 1 April. The over two-months long siege has blocked almost all food,...

The Palestinian death toll from relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since last October has reached 37,431, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Thursday. At least 85,653 people have also been injured in the onslaught, the ministry added in a statement. “Israeli forces...

The Israeli army detained 20 more Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. The speaker of the now-disbanded Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik, was among the detainees, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the...

The Jordanian army announced Wednesday it downed a drug-carrying drone from Syria. An attempt to smuggle drugs across the Syrian border has been thwarted, it said in a statement. It added that the drone, sent from Syrian territory, was downed in Jordan's Northern Military Zone. Jordan has...

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed three Hezbollah fighters on Wednesday, the militant group said, as a U.S. envoy tasked with avoiding a devastating regional war returned to Israel after meeting officials in Lebanon. Lebanese state media reported multiple Israeli strikes along the...

At least 12 Israeli soldiers have been injured in the past 24 hours, including five in ground battles in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army reported Wednesday. "The number of injured soldiers and officers since the beginning of the war in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023 has risen to 3,860," the army said...

Israel's military said Tuesday that it approved plans for an offensive in Lebanon as tensions rise with the Hezbollah group. A military statement said the head of Israel's Northern Command Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin and chief of its Operations Directorate Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk approved plans for the...

At least four victims were killed and 120 injured in an earthquake in the Kashmar district of Razavi Khorasan province in eastern Iran, according to the official news agency, IRNA. Kashmar Governor Hojjatollah Shariatmadari said the magnitude 5 quake that struck at a depth of 6 kilometers (3.7...

A Palestinian was killed and three others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestine's Health Ministry and Red Crescent Society. A statement by the ministry said a 39-year-old man was killed by Israeli fire south of Bethlehem in the southern...

Israeli's defense exports reached $13 billion in 2023, a new record, even amid the widely condemned war on Gaza, according to official data released on Monday. Missile and air defense systems accounted for 36% of the total, said the Israeli Defense Ministry, followed by radar and electronic...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  disbanded his war Cabinet  Monday, a move that consolidates his influence over the Israel-Hamas war and likely diminishes the odds of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip anytime soon. Netanyahu announced the step days after his...

The Israeli army on Monday said it had intercepted an aerial target in northern Israel amid a growing escalation in cross-border hostilities with Lebanese Hezbollah group. In a statement, the Israeli army said its air defenses had intercepted "a suspicious aerial target" near the northern city...

Another journalist was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday, bringing the total number of media persons’ deaths to 151 since Oct. 7 of last year, local authorities said. In a statement, the Gaza Government Media Office identified the victim as Mahmoud Qasem, who worked for a...

OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Nearly 80 countries called Sunday for the “territorial integrity” of  Ukraine  to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s two-year war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not join in. The way forward for diplomacy...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An explosion in southern Gaza killed eight Israeli soldiers, the military said Saturday, making it the deadliest attack on Israeli forces in months. The attack, coming more than eight months into a grinding war that shows few signs of ending soon, was likely to fuel new calls...

An unidentified plane dropped boxes of humanitarian aid for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, Anadolu learned. Witnesses said the plane flew over the Al-Mawasi area and its surroundings,...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military announced on Sunday that it would pause fighting throughout daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to free up a backlog of  humanitarian aid  deliveries destined for desperate Palestinians enduring a humanitarian crisis sparked by the war,...