Chinese and Philippine vessels collided near Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea on August 31st, marking at least the third collision between the two coast guards near the disputed reef in recent weeks. Sabina Shoal is about 80 miles west of the Philippine island...
Israel's largest labor union, the Histadrut, has called a general strike that will start Monday to pressure the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas. The decision to hold a strike came after the Israeli...
Seven US troops were injured in a raid against a suspected ISIS hideout in western Iraq on August 29, The Associated Press reported on Saturday. A Pentagon official said five US soldiers were wounded in the raid, and the other two were hurt from falls during the...
Israel says it recovered the bodies of six hostages, including one American-Israeli, in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the hostages were murdered by Hamas, showing the Palestinian group does not want to make a ceasefire deal and prisoner swap. On Sunday,...
On Thursday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned against allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to launch long-range strikes inside Russia. "If long-range attacks hit the territory of Russia, then the risk of escalation will only increase," Szijjarto...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that Israel has agreed to limited pauses in its bombardment of Gaza in certain areas to allow the vaccination of children for polio, which has returned to the Strip due to the Israeli siege. Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO's...
On Thursday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its confidential, quarterly report on Iran’s civilian nuclear program. Almost immediately, as often occurs, the report was leaked to myriad media outlets. Nothing in the report was especially shocking...
Israeli operations expanded in the West Bank on Thursday during the second day of Israel's largest attack on the occupied territory since the Second Intifada. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, at least 18 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank...
A Ukrainian soldier speaking to the Japanese broadcaster NHK has said that Western intelligence was used to monitor Russian troop activity in Russia's Kursk Oblast before Ukrainian forces launched an invasion of the region. "He says the Ukrainian military surveilled...
The US has been rushing weapons shipments to Israel since the end of July, Haaretz reported on Thursday, citing open-sourced aviation data. The report said that the spike in arms shipments made August the second busiest month at Israel's Nevatim Airbase for US...
