Gaza Strike Kills Al Jazeera Journalist and 3 Others, Medics Report
CAIRO – Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed four people on Wednesday, including an Al Jazeera journalist, local health authorities said and the Qatari television network reported. The strike that killed Al Jazeera’s Muhammad Washah targeted a vehicle he…
Israel Eyes Iran Energy Targets as It Waits for US Approval to Strike
Israel is preparing to attack Iranian energy facilities but is awaiting a green light from the United States, a senior Israeli defense official said on Saturday, adding that any such attacks would likely come within the next week. The comments…
Fuel Crisis Leaves Cuba Struggling for Basics
HAVANA – Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks as a combination of fuel shortages and power grid instability left thousands of taps dry. State water utility Aguas de La Habana confirmed…
Humanitarian Alert: 36,000 Palestinians Displaced
BERLIN – More than 36,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced over a year by Israeli settlement expansion and associated violence, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. The United Nations said in a report covering 12…
Security Shift: Chad Takes Over Haiti Mission
SANTO DOMINGO – The U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force – an international mobilization intended to help Haiti’s police fight powerful armed gangs in the Caribbean country – should fully deploy by October this year, Roberto Alvarez, foreign minister of the neighboring…
Iran’s New Leader Rejects US De-Escalation Proposals
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has rejected proposals for reducing tensions or for a ceasefire with the United States that were conveyed to Tehran by two intermediary countries, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday. Khamenei’s stance for revenge…
Taliban Claims 400 Killed in Pakistan Strike on Kabul Hospital
KABUL – At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in the Afghanistan capital Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday. Pakistan rejected…
Israeli strike kills three people in Gaza as Iran war strains truce
CAIRO – An Israeli airstrike killed at least three people including a child in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health authorities said, the latest violence jeopardising the ceasefire which has been under strain during the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran….
Iran Lays Mines in Hormuz, Threatening Global Oil Flow
WASHINGTON – Iran has deployed about a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz, two sources familiar with the matter said, in a move likely to complicate the reopening of the narrow waterway, an important route for shipping oil and…
Heaviest Bombing Yet Hits Iran as Markets Bet War Ends Soon
DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON- The United States and Israel pounded Iran on Tuesday with what the Pentagon and Iranians on the ground said were the most intense airstrikes of the war, despite global markets betting that President Donald Trump will seek to…
Canada boosts security at US, Israeli diplomatic buildings after consulate shooting
TORONTO/WASHINGTON – Canada is increasing security around U.S. and Israeli diplomatic buildings after a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, a Canadian police official said on Tuesday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said the consulate shooting…
Trump Administration Reports $5.6B Cost in First Two Days of Iran War
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said it used $5.6 billion in munitions during the first two days of strikes against Iran in a report provided to U.S. congressional committees, a source familiar with the information said on Tuesday….
UN Report Accuses Russia of Crimes Against Humanity Over Ukrainian Children
GENEVA – A U.N. investigation found on Tuesday that Russia’s deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022 amounted to crimes against humanity. Ukraine says close to 20,000 children have been illegally sent to Russia and…
Countries Plan Citizen Repatriations as Middle East Flights Are Halted
Commercial flights in parts of the Middle East have been grounded due to the escalating conflict following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, stranding foreign nationals and prompting governments to plan repatriations. Below is what governments have said about repatriation…
Israel Says It Does Not Seek Endless Conflict With Iran
JERUSALEM – Israel is not seeking an endless war with Iran and will coordinate with the United States on when to end the fighting, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday, declining to publicly state a timeline for when the…
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Beirut Area Amid Calls for Hezbollah Disarmament
BEIRUT – Israel’s military pounded the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs with air strikes on Tuesday and its troops pushed deeper into the country’s south, as an Israeli envoy said the key to ending the war was disarming Lebanese militant group…
Iran War Puts Trump’s Gaza Plan on Hold as Hamas Disarmament Talks Pause
JERUSALEM/CAIRO – Talks to advance President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war have been on hold since last week when the U.S. and Israel jointly attacked Iran, sparking a broader Middle East war, three sources with direct knowledge…
Hezbollah Says Israel Launched Raid in Eastern Lebanon Amid Escalating War
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM – Hezbollah said on Monday its fighters clashed with Israeli troops in eastern Lebanon during an Israeli airborne raid overnight, in what would be the second such operation in the area in recent days, as the war between Israel…
Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Received 11 Requests for Help Against Iran’s Shahed Drones
KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had received 11 requests from countries neighboring Iran as well as European states and the United States for drone interceptors, electronic warfare systems and training. “We also reviewed in detail…
Hezbollah saw new war with Israel as inevitable and rearmed for months, sources say
BEIRUT – Lebanese armed group Hezbollah spent months restocking its arsenal of rockets and drones, using support from Iran and its own weapons factories to prepare for a new war with Israel, six sources familiar with the group’s preparations said….