Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin is “deeply concerned” after Israeli strikes killed three Lebanese soldiers and more attacks were reported against UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, the Defense Department said on Monday. An Israeli attack on Monday killed three Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers in the southern part of the country. The Israeli army apologized, claiming that they thought…
The Israeli army said Monday that the latest commander responsible for funding the Lebanese Hezbollah group was “eliminated” in Syria. The man, whose name was not released, headed the Iran-backed Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 that is “responsible for the transfers and the amount of funds” to the group through Tehran’s oil sales, army spokesman Rear Admiral…
Lebanon’s health ministry said four people including a child had been killed on Monday evening in Israeli strikes near the country’s biggest public hospital close to the southern suburbs of Beirut. “The Israeli enemy strike near the Hariri Hospital killed, in a preliminary toll, four people, including a child, and injured 24,” the ministry said,…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said it launched early Tuesday rockets at a “naval base” near the northern Israeli city of Haifa, shortly after it said it targeted positions in Tel Aviv’s suburbs. A “salvo of rockets” targeted the “Stella Maris naval base northwest of Haifa”, the Iran-backed group said in a statement, shortly after saying it…
A group of lions mauled a zookeeper to death at one of Europe’s largest big-cat parks on Wednesday after a door inside their enclosure was left unlocked, investigators said. The mauling occurred at the Taigan safari park on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, one of the largest breeding grounds for lions in Europe and home to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, due to visit Brussels on Thursday, will also attend a meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Belgian capital, the spokesperson for the defense alliance said. NATO’s new chief Mark Rutte “will welcome President Zelensky to NATO HQ on 17 October during the NATO Defense Ministerial,” Farah Dakhlallah said on X,…
China has jailed 15 people for their roles in a building collapse that killed dozens and sparked a public scandal over construction standards, state media said Thursday. In April 2022, a commercial building in the central city of Changsha caved in, leaving more than 50 people dead and nine wounded. Authorities later said the structure…
India slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday as “cavalier” over his handling of the disastrous diplomatic fallout following the 2023 killing of a Sikh separatist in Canada. New Delhi held firm its defiant stance toward Ottawa — an approach in sharp contrast to its compliant attitude this week toward the United States, where…
Israel again attacked UN peacekeepers on Wednesday, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said. “This morning, peacekeepers at a position near Kafer Kela observed an IDF Merkava tank firing at their watchtower. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged,” UNIFIL said in a statement. The Israeli military has now attacked UNIFIL troops a…
An Israeli strike targeting Syria’s Mediterranean port city of Latakia early on Thursday resulted in fires breaking out there, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fires, SANA added. Syrian state television reported the country’s air defences had confronted Israeli targets over Latakia. Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets…
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday and discussed Israel’s operations in Lebanon and the humanitarian situation in Gaza after a letter earlier this week to Israel from Washington that urged improvement of Gaza’s humanitarian situation. “The Secretary encouraged the Government of Israel to continue taking steps to…
Iran considers the US deployment of a THAAD missile defense battery in Israel as “psychological warfare,” Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said on Wednesday, as the region remains tense awaiting an Israeli retaliation against Iran. The Pentagon said on Tuesday that US troops had arrived in Israel as part of the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude…
The war on Gaza must be stopped immediately and a ceasefire reached to assure the return of the Israeli hostages and prevent long-lasting impacts for both sides that are likely if the war continues, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Al Arabiya News on Tuesday. Olmert further said that Hamas’ capabilities in Gaza had…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a French newspaper that Israeli forces had found “state-of-the-art” Russian weapons in searches of Hezbollah bases in south Lebanon. Netanyahu highlighted to Le Figaro newspaper, in an interview released Wednesday, that under a 2006 UN Security Council resolution only the Lebanese army was allowed to have weapons south of…
The facilities contained various advanced conventional weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, official Said. The US military conducted multiple air strikes on several underground Houthi weapons storage facilities inside Yemen, a US defense official told late on Wednesday. The facilities contained various advanced conventional…
