By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The nuclear reactor Syria had nearly completed in 2007 when Israeli jets destroyed it was of a type that could quickly produce fissile material usable in nuclear weapons, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday. The
Israel conducted a wave of airstrikes in south Lebanon killing 12 people including women and children, the Lebanese health ministry said on Monday, in an intensification of violence after a weeks-long lull. Israel's military vowed to continue targeting Hezbollah, accusing the
By Ali Sawafta HAJJA, West Bank, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Violence in the occupied West Bank flared on Monday as Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during a village raid by settlers from a nearby outpost and killed another Palestinian who entered an outpost and stabbed a settler,
By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A planned U.S.-Saudi atomic deal does not include Riyadh signing the Additional Protocol that gives the U.N. nuclear watchdog sweeping inspection powers, but something close to it on some points is in the works, the agency's chief
A UN expert warned Monday that large-scale rubble removal in parts of Gaza under Israeli control risked erasing traces of "atrocity crimes", and preventing the recovery and identification of human remains. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the
DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates is building alternative routes for its energy exports and trade to ensure they are not "held hostage" by the ongoing war between the U.S. and Iran, UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said on Monday. The conflict has had a
After a West Bank stabbing of an Israeli settler, Defense Minister Israel Katz warns the Palestinian Authority against launching an “Oct. 7-style” assault.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the restricted zone would begin at the point where the US blockade of Iranian ports starts and extend into the Gulf.
The Iranian-backed Houthis launched an offensive to take areas bordering the Red Sea, prompting heavy clashes and exchanges of fire with Saudi-backed government forces.
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Germany asked the International Court of Justice on Monday to throw out acase brought by Nicaragua which accuses Berlin of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention because it supplies arms to Israel. Berlin suspended weapons
The escalation in Southern Lebanon casts a shadow over upcoming Israel-Lebanon talks in Rome.
By Emma Farge GENEVA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - U.N. rights chief Volker Turk warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could pose a threat to humanity, and pledged to press AI firms to reduce risks that his office said included disruptions to services, communications and
BEIRUT, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town killed at least 12 people including two children early on Monday, Lebanon's health ministry said, in one of the deadliest daysof Israeli bombardment in recent weeks. Fears of a renewed Israeli military
BEIRUT, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town early on Monday killed at least 11 people including two children and two medics, Lebanon's state news agency said. Israel has intensified its bombardment of south Lebanon in recent days despite a June
By Nayera Abdallah and Eman Abouhassira DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Monday to retaliate against any new U.S. attacks on its assets, warning that the energy production chain in the region was "sprawling, accessible and exposed" and that U.S. oil and gas
(Fixes typo in byline) By Yasmine Ghania and Hatem Maher DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran said it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf in the coming days, along with maps of a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, as a weekend exchange of strikes on
Military Intelligence believes Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may try to turn Israel into the next front in his escalating conflict with the U.S. The IDF is preparing for a coordinated multifront attack as Israel heads toward elections in 50 days
Military Intelligence believes Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may try to turn Israel into the next front in his escalating conflict with the U.S. The IDF is preparing for a coordinated multifront attack as Israel heads toward elections in 50 days
(In September 6 story, corrects paragraph 5 to say dead child was 3-year-old boy, not 7-year-old girl) CAIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike killed a man and his 8-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of Al Shifa
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help stop Israeli attacks, which killed at least seven people on Sunday despite a truce and a framework deal aimed at halting the violence. Israel said it had targeted Hezbollah operatives and
Forty-five years after the annexation of Syria's Golan Heights, only two of 193 UN member states recognize Israel's sovereignty over the plateau. Trump opened the door, but it took seven years for another country to join the U.S.
The toll from days of fighting between government forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen climbed past 300 on Sunday, as hundreds of families fled their homes to escape the violence. Two military officials with the Saudi-backed government forces told AFP that
Fighting between Yemeni government forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen killed more than 140 combatants between midday Saturday and early Sunday morning, military sources said. Two military officials with the Saudi-backed government forces told AFP that 84