Lebanese group Hezbollah on Wednesday announced the death of four of its members, including a senior commander, in the ongoing confrontations with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon. In a statement, Hezbollah named its senior commander as Taleb Abdullah, 55, from the Lebanese southern town of...

“Almost 3,000 children have been cut off from treatment for moderate and severe acute malnutrition in southern Gaza, putting them at risk of death as harrowing violence and displacement continue to impact access to healthcare facilities and services for desperate families,” the UN’s agency...

The Knesset, Israel's parliament, on Monday evening voted in favor of continuing work on a bill from a previous Knesset round that offers an exemption of military service for the Ultra-Orthodox youth, known also as Haredi Yeshiva students. The bill passed with 63 votes in favor, in the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday overwhelmingly approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month  war between Israel and Hamas  in Gaza. The U.S.-sponsored resolution welcomes a cease-fire proposal announced by...

Far-right parties made big gains in the  European Parliament  in election results that rattled the traditional powers and made French President Emmanuel Macron call snap legislative elections. Macron’s party suffered a heavy defeat from the far-right National Rally party, while in...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — They arrived in the middle of the day, when the squat concrete buildings of the Nuseirat refugee camp are stifling and the narrow streets outside are filled with people. No one suspected a thing until the shots rang out. The Israeli raid caught everyone off...

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said American forces did not assist Israel in its operation to rescue four Israeli hostages, claiming that only intelligence support was provided. “The US has been providing support to Israel for several months in its efforts to help identify the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that Israel’s future depends on continuing the war in the Gaza Strip.  “We are committed to absolute victory, and we do not want, nor can we afford, to leave the arena, because the future of the state depends on it, and we have no...

Members of the Kurdish forces killed a civilian in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province Sunday, the Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.  The victim, identified by his initials A.H.D., was abducted from the village of Direnc earlier Sunday, local sources said on condition of anonymity. A.H.D....

EL AMRA, Tunisia (AP) — For many migrants who’ve long dreamed of Europe, one of the last stops is an expanse of olive trees on North Africa's Mediterranean coastline. But in Tunisia, less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the Italian islands that form the European Union’s outermost...

Palestine demanded an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss a "massacre" committed by Israeli forces in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.  “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has instructed Palestine's envoy to the United Nations to request...

The death toll from the Israeli bombing on Saturday of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has risen to 210, the Government Media Office in the besieged Palestinian enclave said. “Some 210 martyrs and more than 400 injured were brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital due to the brutal Israeli...

Israel’s special forces, who retrieved four hostages from the central Gaza Strip, infiltrated into the Nuseirat refugee camp using a humanitarian aid truck, local Palestinian sources said on Saturday.  “The Israeli special forces used a closed transport truck and a civilian vehicle in the...

Iranians expect their new president to address the economic issues weighing down the country and bring hope to younger generations as they head to the polls on June 28. The death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19 is forcing the country to elect a new leader. At least 80...

More Germans are in favor than in opposition of recognizing Palestine as an independent state, a new survey revealed on Friday. Some 40% of respondents said Germany should recognize Palestine as an independent state, while 27% said they were against such a move. About 33% indicated that they...

The  elections  to be held in northern  Syria  by the  YPG  have been  postponed  once again as a result of Ankara’s steadfast reaction, the Turkish security sources have said. The YPG, the Syrian leg of the PKK terror organization, was planning...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned Thursday of a cholera outbreak in the Gaza Strip amid severe water shortages due to Israeli bombardment. “With minimal access to clean water in Gaza Strip and harsh summer heat continuing, there’s a risk of disease outbreaks and...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday that Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria again after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week  left one police officer dead  and four more people injured. The  brutal attack in Mannheim , which was...

An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials. The Israeli military said that Hamas militants were operating from within the school. It was the...

Israeli army forces rounded up 60 more Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. Two women were among the detainees in the raids that targeted the cities of Qalqilya, East Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron, the Commission...