Nineteen people in central Israel’s Sharon region were injured, the Israeli police said, after the military reported the launch of three projectiles from Lebanon into Israeli territory early on Saturday. The national ambulance service previously reported that seven people in the central Israeli town of Tira were injured. The Israeli military said that sirens sounded…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk on Thursday that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israel’s security. “The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel’s determination and capacity to ensure the…
Israel is able to reach anywhere in Iran should the need arise, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. Netanyahu, in a speech to new military officers, said that Israel has unprecedented freedom of action following its recent airstrikes against Iran. “Israel today has more freedom of action in Iran than ever. We can reach any…
According to the Russian foreign minister, the treaty will outline the parties’ commitment to closer cooperation in the areas of defense and in the interests of peace and security both regionally and globally. MOSCOW: A treaty that Russia and Iran intend to sign shortly will include closer defense cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said…
The Lebanese health ministry said that Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least 21 people across southern Lebanon. Nine people were killed and 38 wounded in a strike on Haret Saida, near the port city of Sidon, the ministry said. At least seven others including a nurse and three rescuers were killed in the southern…
Egypt has proposed an initial two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages of Hamas for some Palestinian prisoners, Egypt’s president said on Sunday as Israeli military strikes killed 45 Palestinians across the enclave. Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made the announcement as efforts to defuse the devastating, more than year-long war resumed in Qatar with…
Lebanon’s state news agency on Sunday reported an Israeli raid on southern Beirut, after Israel’s army issued a fresh evacuation call. The official National News Agency said shortly after midnight that Israel had “targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut.” The Israeli army had earlier urged residents of two neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of the…
Military experts say Israel’s overnight strikes on Iran represent a calculated and restrained response designed to demonstrate Israeli military capabilities while avoiding major escalation in an increasingly volatile Middle East. The precision strikes, which targeted missile manufacturing facilities and air defense systems across Iran, mark the first major foreign attack on Iranian soil since the Iran-Iraq war,…
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 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…
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…
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…
CAIRO – 16 October 2024: Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed an accord to establish a supreme Egyptian-Saudi coordination council along with an agreement to encourage and protect mutual investments between the two countries, said the Egyptian Presidency in a statement. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown…
