Two of the UK Royal Navy’s ships based in Bahrain collided on Saturday, according to an official statement. Royal Navy’s elite minehunters, HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor, were involved in an accident when Chiddingfold rammed into the docked Bangor. In a statement, Rear Adm. Edward Ahlgren...

Recent hours saw at least 77 Palestinians killed and many others injured in Israeli attacks on various parts of the Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Friday. “Dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, were killed and many others wounded in...

The UN on Friday said that 344 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since Oct. 7, making 2023 the deadliest year yet for Palestinians in the West Bank. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) noted that 344 Palestinians,...

The deputy executive director of the UN children’s fund, has warned that children in the besieged Gaza Strip are facing dire hunger and disease. Ted Chaiban, the deputy executive director of Unicef described the Gaza Strip as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. "We have...

Kazakhstan will start in March its first independent UN peacekeeping mission in the Middle East, the government announced. Both chambers of the parliament on Friday voted for the proposal of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to send 139 Kazakh peacekeepers to the Golan Heights in Syria....

The head of UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories on Friday urged Israel to prevent the recurrence of "ill-treatment and humiliation" of Palestinian detainees in Gaza, saying he met several released detainees who had been beaten and blindfolded and been held for weeks....

The tents of 525 families were submerged in camps from heavy rainfall in the northwestern province of Idlib in Syria where civilians are fleeing attacks by Syrian army forces.  The White Helmets civil defense group said in a statement that due to the downpour, the tents in 43 camps near...

BEIRUT, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children early on Thursday, according to local Syrian media and monitors tracking the conflict. There was no immediate comment from Jordanian authorities. Jordan's army has stepped up a...

Iran has sought an explanation from Pakistani authorities following military strikes on a border village in southwestern Sistan-Baluchestan province. State news agency IRNA, citing an official, said authorities had demanded an "immediate explanation" from the Pakistani government about the...

Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington's initial ideas for cooling tit-for-tat fighting with Israel but remains open to US diplomacy to avoid a ruinous war, Lebanese officials have told Reuters. One suggestion, passed on by Lebanese mediators, floated last week was that border hostilities be...

The US on Wednesday redesignated Yemen's Houthi group as specially designated global terrorists in response to the Iran-backed group's attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that Yemeni rebels have carried out attacks on...

The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October has surged to 24,448, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 61,504 others were also injured, adding that Israeli forces committed 16 massacres across the...

PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into how the group kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The procedural...

 The pro-regime  SyriaSteps website confirmed the news of the arrest of one of the most prominent merchants in the Syrian war, Khader Ali Taher, known as Abu Ali Khader, on charges related to smartphone trading. The website, which is close to the regime's intelligence...

Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at positions of "terrorist groups" in Syria and Iraq late Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. The IRGC said a "spy headquarters" and a "gathering of anti-Iran terrorist groups" in Syria were destroyed with...

At least 11 members of the regime's intelligence were killed in a sophisticated infiltration operation carried out by the Islamic State group on Monday evening in the Palmyra Badia desert in the eastern countryside of Homs, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The ISIS militants...

Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 4-1 to win the Spanish Super Cup on Sunday. Vinicius Junior scored twice in the seventh and 10th minutes and his third goal came from a penalty kick in the 38th minute at Riyadh's Al -Awwal Stadium. The 23-year-old Junior became the first Brazilian to score...

Yemen’s Houthi movement claimed an attack on a US shipping vessel in the Gulf of Aden and said it will continue to consider all American and British ships in the Red Sea as targets. The attack, which struck the Gibraltar Eagle vessel carrying steel products, occurred earlier on Monday and...

Palestinian director Omar Rammal's short film titled "75 Years," narrating Israel's occupation and the crimes against the Palestinian people, criticizes human rights organizations. The short film, released on Dec. 10, World Human Rights Day, has been viewed by over 50 million people. "I...

Lebanese group Hezbollah exchanged cross-border fire with Israeli forces on Monday in the latest sign of escalation along the border between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah said in a statement that it had targeted with missiles a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Metula barracks, resulting in...