Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in a phone call on Saturday that Moscow condemns Israel’s use of force against Iran and is ready to help de-escalate the situation in the Middle East. Russia is prepared to continue to work to resolve issues surrounding Iran’s nuclear program, the Russian Foreign…
A senior US envoy visited Beirut on Saturday amid a fragile ceasefire with Israel and mounting US pressure on Lebanon to rein in the militant Hezbollah group, urging the Lebanese army to assert control over all national territory and prevent arms smuggling along the Syrian border. Deputy US Special Envoy to the Middle East Morgan…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah denied in a statement that it had “any link” to rocket launches from southern Lebanon on Saturday and reiterated its commitment to a US-backed ceasefire. Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit southern Lebanon after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, endangering the shaky truce that ended a year-long war…
Hamas on Saturday accused the United States of distorting the truth by saying the Palestinian militant group had chosen war with Israel by refusing to release hostages. “The claim that ‘Hamas chose war instead of releasing the hostages’ is a distortion of the facts,” Hamas said in a statement in response to the accusation from…
The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had intercepted a projectile launched from Yemen that crossed into Israeli territory. Houthis in Yemen targeted Israel’s “Negev Nuclear Research Center” with a missile, but it was intercepted. Sirens had earlier sounded in several areas of Israel. The Iran-backed Houthi group has repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards…
Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza, killing more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, threatening the complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as Israel vowed to use more force to free hostages held by Hamas. The Palestinian militant group, which still holds 59 of the 250 or so hostages seized in its October 7, 2023 attack…
The Israeli military said on Monday it struck a military site in Qardahah, Syria, where weapons belonging to the former Syrian regime were stored. An army statement said that Israeli forces “struck a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored in the area of Qardaha,” the hometown of deposed Syrian…
Artillery shelling and airstrikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists. Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month as the army fights to take all…
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza returned safely to Israel on Saturday after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands in Gaza City and handed them over to the Red Cross. Israel later released 200 Palestinian prisoners in the second…
More than 120 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Sudan on Monday and Tuesday by barrel bombs and shelling from the warring sides, rights activists said. The 20-month-old war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been turning increasingly bloody as ceasefire efforts have stalled, and crises elsewhere have dominated world attention. The…
