Hezbollah would halt fire on Israel if Hamas agrees to a hostage deal that includes a ceasefire unless Israel continues to bomb southern Lebanon, Reuters reported on Tuesday. During the previous hostage deal that resulted in a seven-day truce in Gaza, there was calm...
President Biden on Monday said a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas was "close" and that he hoped a ceasefire could be reached by Monday, March 4. But in response, both sides indicated an agreement is still far away and said the president spoke too soon. According...
Egypt has been accused of threatening a human rights group that first reported on the construction of a walled camp for Palestinian refugees in the Sinai Desert on the border with Gaza. Eighteen civil society groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that the alliance has no plans to send combat troops to Ukraine after French President Emmanuel Macron stirred an uproar by saying the idea of deploying troops should not be ruled out. "NATO allies are providing...
Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico warned on Monday that some NATO and EU countries are considering sending troops to Ukraine, a step that would risk direct war between NATO and Russia. "Several NATO and EU member states are considering sending their soldiers to...
Yemen's Saba news agency said a civilian was killed in the series of missile strikes the US and Britain launched across Houthi-controlled Yemen over the weekend, marking the first reported civilian death since the US began bombing Yemen on January 12. "The...
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's CIA-backed military intelligence agency, said Sunday that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny died of a blood clot. "I may disappoint you, but as far as we know, he indeed died as a result of a blood clot. And this has been...
The CIA helped build 12 secret spy bases in Ukraine along the Russian border as part of the agency's support for Ukrainian intelligence that started in 2014, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The report described one of the CIA-built spy bases as an underground...
Sweden cleared its last hurdle to join NATO on Monday as Hungary's parliament ratified its membership. "The parliaments of all Nato member states have now voted in favor of Swedish accession to NATO. Sweden stands ready to shoulder its responsibility for Euro-Atlantic...
Israeli officials are downplaying the prospects of a new hostage deal with Hamas even as Israeli negotiators head to Qatar to discuss the details, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. According to media reports, the deal presented on Friday during talks between...
