JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport diverts incoming flights, delays others after Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.
Israel has launched multiple strikes on southern Lebanon over the last day, including one which killed a senior Hezbollah commander.
A leaked audio recording of a heated exchange between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the family of a hostage killed by Hamas is sparking reaction in Israel. CNN’s Nic Robertson reports.
“Safe passage to him and whoever he wants to join him out of Gaza,” Israel’s Coordinator for Hostages and the Missing Gal Hirsch told CNN’s Jessica Dean on Sunday.
The Palestinian Hamas group said on Wednesday that its negotiators reiterated its readiness to implement an "immediate" ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous U.S. proposal without new conditions from any party. The Palestinian group said in a statement that their negotiation team, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, met mediators on Wednesday including Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel in Doha to discuss the latest developments in Gaza. Lingering issue include control of the Philadelphi corridor, a narrow stretch of land on Gaza's border with Egypt, persisting.
After meetings with Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha on Wednesday, Palestinian militant group Hamas reiterated its "readiness" to adopt US President Joe Biden's long-gestating Gaza ceasefire deal, originally proposed in May, as pressure grows on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring home hostages. A Hamas delegation met Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha on Wednesday to discuss a truce in Gaza and a potential hostage and prisoner exchange, the militant group said in a statem
Australia on Thursday moved to strip medals from Afghanistan war commanders whose units were involved in alleged war crimes and "unlawful conduct".- 'Accountable' - Marles said the commanders involved in Thursday's decision may not have been aware of the war crimes their units allegedly carried out, but there was an expectation for them to know what was happening.
KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had anticipated Moscow's counteroffensive in the Russian region of Kursk, his first comments on the pushback this week more than a month after Ukraine's cross-border incursion. Ukraine's troops captured an enclave of western Russian territory in a surprise raid that began in early August, a move aimed at wresting the battlefield initiative from Russia including by diverting Moscow's forces from the eastern front. Its forces made rapid initial gains before stalling, while the situation around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, which has been the focus of Russia's main offensive operations in recent weeks, remained perilous.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces have begun a significant counter-offensive against Ukrainian troops who smashed their way into western Russia last month, and have taken some territory back, pro-Moscow war bloggers and a senior Russian commander said. Ukraine on Aug. 6 launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two, bursting through the border into the region of Kursk with thousands of troops supported by swarms of drones and heavy weaponry, including Western-made arms. Major General Apti Alaudinov, who commands Chechnya's Akhmat special forces fighting in Kursk, said that Russian troops had gone on the offensive and taken back control of about 10 settlements in Kursk, TASS reported.
Several serving and former Australian military commanders have been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan war, Defense Minister Richard Marles said Thursday. Holding commanders to account for alleged misconduct of Australian special forces between 2005 and 2016 was recommended by Maj. Gen. Paul Brereton in his war crime investigation.
Large crowds of protesters gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump faced off in a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center on September 10.This footage, filmed by Karen Closkey, shows a large group pro-Palestine protesters marching through the streets of Philadelphia, as well as a smaller group of pro-Israel demonstrators.An earlier clip shows a truck hauling a statue of Trump dressed in a prison uniform near the debate site.According to local media citing authorities, police arrested around “half a dozen protesters” on Tuesday night.The Philly Palestine Coalition, who organized the pro-Palestine protest, called for “a permanent ceasefire and arms embargo” in an Instagram post. Credit: Karen Closkey via Storyful
Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders, his private army’s biggest client in Africa panicked, turning for help to his foe in the West. Officials from Central African Republic, where some 1,500 of Prigozhin’s shadowy Wagner Group mercenaries were stationed, wrote a letter that day, requesting to “rapidly” arrange a meeting with a private U.S. security firm to discuss collaboration. Dated June 23, 2023, the day Prigozhin launched the armed rebellion, the letter sparked a series of private meetings, culminating in a deal with the central African nation and Bancroft Global Development.
The negotiated deal’s framework allows Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who does not want the war to end, to sabotage it every step of the way.
More than 100 Pakistan police who provide security for polio vaccination teams in restive border areas went on strike on Thursday after a string of deadly militant attacks this week. "Any constable who learns of the protest is leaving their polio duty to join the demonstration," the second officer told AFP. At least two police officers and one polio worker have been shot dead in separate attacks in rural districts near the border with Afghanistan since the launch of the latest vaccination drive
Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan Thursday on a visit hailed by the regional president as the first by an Iranian president to the autonomous region.Barzani hailed the first visit by an Iranian president to the region, describing it as a "historic day".
Anti-war groups protested outside a defence exhibition in Australia's second-largest city of Melbourne for a second day on Thursday, after violent clashes between police and protesters on Wednesday injured several officers. Protesters marched through the city's streets as police set up new barricades to block the crowd entering the roads near the venue hosting the biennial Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition. Riot squad officers and specialist personnel have been deployed in what police said is the largest security operation in Melbourne since the World Economic Forum in 2000.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the death of American activist Aysenur Eygi, who was killed at a protest last week in the occupied West Bank by Israeli soldiers.
New York City's Noguchi Museum said on Wednesday it fired three employees after they violated its updated dress code by wearing keffiyeh head scarves, which have become an emblem of solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Across the world in protests demanding an end to Israel's war in Gaza, demonstrators have worn the black-and-white keffiyeh head scarf, saying it identifies with Palestinian self-determination.
President Biden on Wednesday said he is “outraged and deeply saddened” by Israel’s “totally unacceptable” killing of an American activist in the West Bank, adding that there must be “full accountability” one day after suggesting her death was an accident. Biden in a statement condemned the shooting of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old from Seattle…
The Sudanese government accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of providing weapons to its rival paramilitary force and prolonging the 17-month war. The UAE called the allegations “utterly false” and “baseless” and accused the government of refusing to negotiate peace with its enemy. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to Darfur and other regions.
Israeli special forces last week destroyed an underground missile factory in Syria used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), it has been reported.
