The Houthis have agreed to allow tugboats to reach the Sounion, a Greek-flagged oil tanker that's anchored in the Red Sea that was struck by Houthi missiles last week. The Sounion was disabled by the Houthi strike and is reportedly still on fire. A French destroyer...
The EU has said it would consider a Ukrainian request for training soldiers inside Ukraine "should the necessary political and operational conditions be met," POLITICO reported on Tuesday. An EU External Action Service document from July, obtained by POLITICO, says...
Israeli forces launched a major assault on the West Bank early Wednesday that appears to be the largest Israeli operation in the occupied territory since the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. The assault focused on northern areas of the West Bank, including Jenin,...
Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of US Indo-Pacific Command, said Tuesday that the US military was open to consultations with the Philippines on escorting Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, which would put the US in direct confrontation with China. The US has...
President Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier off Gaza despite concerns from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that the project would undermine efforts to pressure Israel to allow more aid into the Strip via land crossings, USAID's...
On Wednesday, Israeli drones attacked a vehicle on the Syrian side of the Syria-Lebanon border, on the Beirut-Damascus highway. The strike killed at least four people, according to reports. Among the slain was Fares Qasem, a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)....
On Tuesday, Gaza's Health Ministry said that Israeli forces killed at least 41 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the previous 24-hour period. "Israeli forces killed 41 people and injured 113 others in three ‘massacres’ of families in the last 24 hours," the ministry...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Tuesday that the US would face "much harsher" consequences for backing Ukraine's offensive in Russia's Kursk Oblast. "The impression is that our colleagues [in Washington] have discarded the remnants of common...
On Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opened the door to talks with the US, telling the new Iranian government there was "no harm" in engaging with the "enemy." Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, pledged during his campaign that he would work...
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), led a mission to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Russia's Kursk Oblast, which was invaded by Ukrainian forces on August 6. Grossi warned of the danger of a nuclear incident amid the...
