Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AFP Yemen’s Houthi group said Tuesday it struck US and British ships in two separate attacks in the Red Sea, one of which was confirmed by a security firm. In a statement, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the “the first attack targeted the American ship Star Nasia, while the other […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Egypt on Tuesday as part of his latest Middle East crisis tour, seeking a new cease-fire and “an enduring end” to Israel’s war on Gaza. Heavy strikes and fighting in Gaza killed at least 99 people overnight, mostly women and children, said the he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A food convoy came under Israeli artillery fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said. “This morning, a food convoy waiting to move into Northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire,” UNRWA’s Gaza chief Thomas White said on X. No one was injured […]
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...
