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  • IDF assassinates right-hand man of Hamas leader Sinwar

    Israel has said it has assassinated the “right-hand man” of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

  • 'Kill him first': Israel eyes top level targets

    After the killing of Hezbollah's leader in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted Israel had "settled the score".- 'Massive degrading' - Netanyahu defended targeted killings days ago by quoting the Talmud, the central text of Judaism: "He who comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first."

  • US launches airstrikes by fighter jets and ships on Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels

    The U.S. military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels, U.S. officials confirmed. Military aircraft and warships bombed Houthi strongholds at roughly five locations, according to the officials. Houthi media said seven strikes hit the airport in Hodeida, a major port city, and the Katheib area, which has a Houthi-controlled military base.

  • What are Israel and Iran’s attack and defence capabilities?

    The two bitter regional enemies are on the brink of all-out war

  • ‘I don’t have the energy to be displaced again’: Lebanon’s capital reels after Israeli strikes

    When Israel struck the center of Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, it seemed to wipe out what little sense of safety remained in the Lebanese capital.

  • Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment

    The new figure would make the assault, in which civilians were shot dead as they dug trenches to defend the remote town of Barsalogho, one of the deadliest single attacks in Africa in recent decades.

  • Israeli helicopter fires missiles into Lebanon as hostilities with Hezbollah escalate

    More than 250,000 Syrians and 82,000 Lebanese have fled across the border into Syria during the past two weeks to escape escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

  • Exclusive-Gulf states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in Iran-Israel conflict, sources say

    Gulf Arab states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in the conflict between Tehran and Israel in meetings in Doha this week on the back of concerns that a wider escalation in violence could threaten their oil facilities, two sources told Reuters. Ministers from Gulf Arab states and Iran attending a meeting of Asian nations hosted by Qatar centred their conversations around de-escalation, the sources said. The Islamic Republic launched its largest ever assault on Israel on Tuesday in what it said was retaliation for Israel's assassination of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders and its operations in Gaza and Lebanon.

  • Taliban's battle with IS opens door to foreign cooperation

    Afghanistan's Islamic State group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists.Since winning their own insurgency in defiance of the international community three years ago, the Taliban government has been plagued by attacks by the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K).

  • Yazidi woman freed from Gaza after decade in captivity

    A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq a decade ago was freed from Gaza this week in a secret operation months in the making that involved Israel, the United States and Iraq, officials said. The woman is a member of the ancient Yazidi religious minority mostly found in Iraq and Syria which saw more than 5,000 members killed and thousands more kidnapped in an IS campaign in 2014 that the U.N. has said constituted genocide. She was freed after more than four months of efforts that involved several attempts that failed due to the difficult security situation resulting from Israel's military offensive in Gaza, Silwan Sinjaree, chief of staff of Iraq's foreign minister, told Reuters.

  • Israel kills Hamas militant once jailed for role in West Bank lynchings

    CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel has killed Abdel-Aziz Salha, a West Bank Hamas militant who had been jailed for life for taking part in the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in 2000 but later deported to Gaza in a prisoner swap, Hamas media and medics said. Salha was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent inside Al-Aklouk School, which shelters displaced Palestinians, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip earlier on Thursday, medics said. The 2000 incident took place in Ramallah in the West Bank, where the reservists were seized at a Palestinian checkpoint, brought to a police station and set upon by a mob that choked and beat them to death.

  • Hezbollah has not committed violence, Lebanese ambassador tells BBC

    The Lebanese ambassador to the UK has claimed that “Hezbollah has not been committing violence”.

  • Israel strike suspected near Russian air base in Syria

    Israel is suspected of launching missiles overnight into Syria, striking close to a Russian air base believed to house weapons for Iran.

  • Ukraine says it killed Zaporizhzhia NPP security chief, branding him a 'collaborator'

    The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, located in southern Ukraine, is the largest in Europe and prior to the 2022 Russian invasion, supplied Ukraine with around 30% of its electricity. It was seized by Russian forced in the early weeks of the war.

  • Democratic senator worried Netanyahu trying to ‘influence’ US election

    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says he’s worried Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be trying to influence the U.S. presidential election by showing little interest in striking a peace deal with Hamas and instead escalating the threat of a broader war in the Middle East by aggressively confronting Hezbollah in Lebanon. Murphy acknowledged that the…

  • $1,800 a seat: luxury yachts evacuate people from Lebanon as flights dry up

    Demand is high amid Israeli bombardment but prohibitive cost and visa requirements mean it is not an option for most

  • Pro-Palestine marches will continue until Israel sanctioned, says organiser

    Ben Jamal was speaking ahead of the 20th national March for Palestine on Saturday.

  • Israeli strike in West Bank 'kills 18' as more huge blasts hit Beirut

    At least 18 Palestinians are said to have died in an Israeli attack in the West Bank - as airstrikes in Lebanon continued with large blasts seen near Beirut airport. The Palestinian health ministry said Thursday's deaths occurred in the Tulkarm refugee camp. In a post on X, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa called it a "massacre" and said Israel was "ignoring global calls for justice".

  • Indian troops kill 31 suspected Maoist rebels in forest battle

    At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels were killed in a battle with Indian troops in central India, police said Saturday. The fighting erupted on Friday when counterinsurgency troops, acting on intelligence, cornered nearly 50 suspected rebels in the Abhujmaad forest area along the border of Narayanpur and Dantewada districts in Chhattisgarh state, said state police Inspector General Pattilingam Sundarraj.

  • Russia has decided 'at highest level' to remove Taliban from terrorist list, TASS reports

    Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been "taken at the highest level", the state TASS news agency reported. The decision needs to be followed up with various legal procedures in order to make it a reality, President Vladimir Putin's special representative on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, was quoted as saying. Putin said in July that Russia considered Afghanistan's Taliban movement an ally in the fight against terrorism.