KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Three days ahead of general elections in Pakistan, militants attacked a police station in the northwestern part of the country early Monday, killing 10 policemen and injuring six more, an official said. The incident, latest in an ongoing streak of militant attacks ahead of Feb. 8 polls, took place in the [&hellip...
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in attacks by Israel. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Blinken is expected to […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Scores of Palestinians were reported killed in overnight strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after Hamas said it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian territory. Gaza’s health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had be...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 in Lebanon since its war on Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday. “Since the beginning of the war, we have attacked, from the ground and air, more than 50 such targets of Hezbollah spread […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) — US strikes in eastern Syria killed several civilians and regime soldiers, state-run news agency SANA reported on Saturday. “The American occupation forces launched a blatant air attack on a number of sites and towns in the eastern region of Syria and near the Syrian-Iraqi borders,” SANA quoted a statement by ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Deadly strikes were reported early Saturday in the overcrowded Gaza border town of Rafah — dubbed a “pressure cooker of despair” by the UN — as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative deal between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians...
ANKARA (AA) – The number of people killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza has risen to 27,131, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Friday. “The Israeli occupation committed 13 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 112 martyrs and 148 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement. “Many people [&hellip...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Fighting in Gaza raged on Friday with scores reported killed overnight, after mediator Qatar said Hamas had given its “initial” support to a prisoner exchange deal that would pause its war with Israel. The health ministry in the territory said 112 people had been killed over the previous 24 hours...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) is likely to shut down operations by the end of February amid a suspension of funding by Western countries, its chief warned Thursday. “As the war in Gaza is being pursued unabated, and at the time the International Court of Justice calls for more humanitarian assistance, […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The number of Palestinians killed by Israel in its war on Gaza has jumped to 27,019, the Health Ministry in Gaza said on Thursday. The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught against Gaza entered its 118th day. It also said 66,139 other people have been injured in […]
