Iran has dismissed as akin to child's play the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides on Saturday appeared to step back from wider conflict stemming from the war in Gaza. But a deadly blast at an Iraqi military base emphasised the high
Gazans are resorting to using firewood and charcoal due to a severe lack of cooking gas, triggering a large number of recorded respiratory illness cases.
The US is set to hold a vote on an aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Saturday, along with a possible ban on TikTok.
Israeli forces have been conducting a deadly raid on Nur Shams refugee camp since Thursday night and residents have reported widespread destruction
One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday. The full details remain unclear hours after the blast hit the Kalsu military base in Babylon province south of
No one is around to harvest the fruits weighing down the loquat branches of Kfar Aza. No one except Shar Shnurman, the first survivor of the October 7 attack to have returned to this Israeli kibbutz. "The entire kibbutz is my garden now," Shnurman said as he pointed to the lush
Several were wounded after a strike hit the Calso military base in Babylon, where Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi is stationed.
The writers demand the organisation’s CEO, Suzanne Nossel, president, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and the entire executive committee to resign.
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed after a surge of Israeli airstrikes across Rafah City, in neighbourhoods sheltering displaced families.
Three days after a hardscrabble worker living in a West Bank refugee camp was shot dead by an Israeli soldier, his son was born and named after him
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday with Middle East tensions at a high after Israel's reported attack on Iran and Gaza bracing for a new Israeli offensive. Erdogan has sought but failed to establish a foothold as
One killed, six wounded in an airstrike on a pro-Iranian militia base near Baghdad ■ Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza protest for their release; block major highway ■ Israeli official confirms airstrike on Iran to Washington Post ■ Three Iranian officials say Israel's
The murder of Binyamin Ahimeir in the West Bank led to a wave of settler violence under the protection of the army. But it was just an excuse to do what the settlers constantly do on a smaller scale: spreading fear, violently attacking villagers and destroying property
The judge criticized the police, saying that there was no justification for the arrest of Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian over her remarks about October 7. Police argued that she 'uses conspiracies to advance measures against Israel'
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Card after card is being lost in the negotiations with Hamas – as the violent escalation in the West Bank gets out of hand ■ After the Gaza war, the Israeli army will have to attend to its munitions shortage and beef up its reservist units as Hezbollah might attempt a
Palestinian officials said Friday Israeli troops killed a teenager and an adult in the occupied West Bank, while the Israeli army said it killed a "number of terrorists" in a raid. Since early last year violence has flared across the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since
After years of high-level US pressure on its ally to show restraint, Israel's purported attack on Iran takes the region and Western-led diplomacy into uncharted territory. Iran and Israel have long waged a shadow war, marked by assassinations of Tehran's nuclear scientists and
Iranian officials appeared uninterested in entering into a fresh round of escalation with Israel and soft-pedaled on the severity of the Isfahan attack, which, in their view, did not invite reciprocation.
French authorities on Friday detained a man after receiving an alert from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered carrying an explosive.
Limited Israeli strikes and a muted Iranian response suggest the dangerous tit-for-tat retaliation between the two foes may be over, at least for now.
An international humanitarian relief effort in the form of a Freedom Flotilla Coalition was getting ready Friday to leave the western Turkish port of Tuzla and bring much-needed relief to residents of war-torn Gaza. At least three vessels carrying some 5,000 tons of food,
Oil prices briefly surged and stock markets slid Friday on reports Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran.
If the vote had passed it would have paved the way for Palestinian UN member status, bringing the occupied territory a step closer to independence.
Israel's long-term credit rating is being downgraded by S&P, which cited the risk of military escalation with Iran.
Several diplomats say their countries held talks with Israel in recent days about their strike on Iran, in an attempt to prevent a flare-up. One diplomat said that danger is not behind us, 'but there is room for cautious optimism'
TNA meets activists from Freedom Flotilla Coalition on the Akdeniz ship seeking to break the Israeli siege on Gaza, hoping to bring relief to its people
Israel struck air base near Iranian city of Isfahan, international media reports ■ Senior Iranian officials say strike caused no damage, no immediate retaliation is planned, state media reports ■ U.S., EU sanction far-right Israeli activists and NGOs ■ Ratings agency S&P Global
Israeli police arrested Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in Jerusalem based on accusations of inciting violence, terrorism and racism.
When record downpours sent water flooding into his Dubai home, Riaz Haq expected the levels to drop once it stopped raining. But instead of falling, the water kept rising higher. "We went to bed, the water was half-a-metre (half-a-yard)," the British lawyer said, recalling
Despite Friday's announcement of explosions in central Iran, many people appeared unfazed and planned rallies in the capital supporting last weekend's unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel still went ahead. "We're going to the park to play board games. Everything is just like
Ontario has banned the keffiyeh from being worn in its state legislature, alleging that the scarves are a ‘political statement’.
Modi is widely expected to resoundingly win this year's national elections in India, which began on Friday and continues in phases until June 1.
Three Filipino workers have been reported dead in the UAE and 20 in neighbouring country Oman, as the storm pounded the Gulf region in recent days.
Located in Europe's last divided city, a bookshop in Nicosia, Cyprus, has been weathering volatility since its inception in 1937.
The wife of four-times Tour de France winner Chris Froome has gone on a social media tirade against Palestinians and Muslims.
The European Union and the United States have published new lists of radical Israeli individuals and groups to be sanctioned.
He might be 80 but Sebastiao Salgado, the Brazilian photojournalist who has spent five decades chronicling the world around us, is not ready to hang up his camera yet. Salgado, known in particular for his work in the Amazon, insists there is still a need to "raise awareness"
Gazans in the besieged southern city of Rafah told AFP they believed Israel's reported strike against Iran on Friday was little more than a show -- and called for peace in the region. "As everybody knows, this is all staged and agreed upon in advance from both sides," resident
Activists have been demonstrating outside London's Science Museum urging it to drop its sponsor Adani Group, which has ties to Israeli weapons manufacturing.
Israel is yet to comment on the drone attacks over Iran's Isfahan province while Iranian officials have emphasised the lack of damage from the incursion
French authorities on Friday detained a man after receiving an alert from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered carrying an explosive, the capital's police authority said. "The man has exited the consulate and is being" interrogated by police, it said. A
This week we look at the Iranian attack on Israel, the most recent violent rampage of settlers in the West Bank, and the heavy flooding across the Gulf.
An Israeli missile attack targeted air defence positions in Syria's southern region, according to Syrian state media.
The case against Govrin dates back to 2022 when allegations of exploiting Moroccan women working at the Rabat office were leaked to the media.
Arab states have responded to an Israeli attack on Iran, a week after Tehran launched its own missile and drone strikes on Israel.
The motivation of the unidentified man remains unclear.
Israel's lackluster strike on Isfahan is at most a temporary measure, a place-holder. And it was ordered by Netanyahu, who made a career out of talking up the Iranian threat but when the moment of truth came, he had nothing to say or offer
