Ukraine's parliament voted on Tuesday on a bill that would ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which has historic links to Russia but severed ties with the Moscow Patriarchate following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The UOC has also denounced the Russian...
Hezbollah launched a flurry of drones against the northern Israeli military target near Ya’ara. One of the drones exploded, killing Israeli Chief Warrant Officer Mahmoud Amaria, and wounded several others, one of them seriously. Israel reported that three of the five...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that the Ukrainian assault on Russia's Kursk Oblast shows that Moscow's red lines and threats of retaliation are a bluff. Zelensky made the comments while criticizing the US and its NATO allies for not allowing...
Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday that said the July 20 Israeli airstrikes targeting Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeidah could be a war crime since the attack caused disproportionate harm to civilians. The Israeli airstrikes, which came in response to a...
Chinese and Philippine Coast Guard vessels collided in the South China Sea on Monday near the Sabina Shoal in the disputed South China Sea. The two sides are trading blame for the incident, which happened despite diplomatic efforts between Beijing and Manila to cool...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that President Vladimir Putin had made clear talks with Ukraine are now impossible following the Ukrainian assault on Russia's Kursk Oblast. "The president said it very clearly that following attacks, or even...
After meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement backing the new Gaza hostage and ceasefire proposal from the US, which includes the Israeli leader's demands and doesn't include...
Russian forces have continued to make steady gains in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast amid the Ukrainian cross-border offensive in Kursk. Russia has focused its offensive toward the Donestk city of Pokrovsk, a major hub for Ukrainian forces in the region. Local...
Israeli strikes on Gaza on Sunday killed a total of 29 people, including 10-year-old quintuplets, The Associated Press has reported. The quintuplets were killed alongside their mother and 18-month-old sibling in a strike that targeted a home in Deir al-Balah in...
A US official threatened Iran on Friday that it would face "cataclysmic" consequences if it attacked Israel in response to the Israeli killing of Hamas's political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. A senior US official told AFP that the US "would encourage the...
