Hamas's political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed by a bomb Israeli intelligence planted at an official guest residency in Tehran about two months ago, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud...
The US and Russia conducted a major prisoner swap on Thursday that freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan. Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 on charges of espionage, which were rejected by the US government and the...
The Israeli assassination of Hamas's political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza ceasefire deal. Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani, who has been mediating indirect...
A member of the Israeli Knesset has defended the idea of raping Palestinian prisoners after Israeli soldiers suspected of sexually torturing a detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility were arrested. The arrest took place on Monday, sparking protests from...
Ukraine has received its first batch of US-made F-16 fighter jets from NATO, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, marking an escalation of the alliance's involvement in the proxy war. Bloomberg's sources did not say how many planes had arrived, only that it was a "small"...
Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed that one of its most senior military commanders, Fuah Shukr, was killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday. Lebanese sources told Reuters that Shukr's body was found in...
Iraq has strongly condemned a US airstrike that targeted the country on Tuesday and killed several members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Shia militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS and are part of Iraq's security forces. The...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the US would defend Israel if it faces attacks in response to its airstrike in Beirut that targeted a Hezbollah commander and the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas's political bureau who was...
A US official told Reuters that the US carried out a strike in Iraq on Tuesday just hours after Israel bombed Beirut. The official didn't share details about the attack, but earlier, a drone strike was reported in the Iraqi province of Babylon that hit a base housing...
Thousands of Palestinians returned to areas of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Tuesday after Israeli forces withdrew from the city and left it in ruins. Israel launched a new assault on eastern Khan Younis on July 22, marking at least the third time the...
