Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israel said its security forces shot dead three Palestinian men accused of killing a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters last month, in a raid Thursday in the occupied West Bank. A statement said two members of Hamas and a third man accused of helping them were killed in a joint operation […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AFP): Iranian forces seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early on Wednesday, the US Navy claimed, the second such incident in less than a week. The Greek-owned tanker, Niovi, was sailing from Dubai towards Fujairah, another port in the United Arab Emirates, when it was stopped by […]
Damascus, Syria (AFP): Visiting Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi hailed Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday for overcoming sanctions and achieving “victory” in the country’s 12-year-long civil war, in which Tehran has been a major ally. The Syria conflict has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions and batte...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Palestinian group Islamic Jihad announced a truce around Gaza Wednesday after trading fire with Israel following the death in Israeli custody of a hunger striker from its ranks. One Palestinian was killed and five wounded in pre-dawn air strikes Israel carried out in retaliation for rocket fire from Ga...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): The UN chief on Wednesday said “we failed” to stop war from erupting in Sudan, where persistent fighting between rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce. “The UN was taken by surprise” by the conflict, because the world body and others were hopeful that negotiations would be successfu...
ANKARA (AA) – A Syrian regime soldier was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Aleppo airport in northern Syria, state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday. SANA, citing a military source, said two civilians and five soldiers were injured in the attack that put Aleppo airport out of service. There was no comment from Israel […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Three rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel after Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan died in an Israeli prison, the Israeli military said on Tuesday. “3 rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israeli territory. No interceptors were launched in accordance with policy,” a military statement said. The ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan died in an Israeli prison after 86 days of hunger strike, Islamic Jihad said on Tuesday. “The free hero, Khader Adnan, died as a martyr in a crime committed by the enemy in front of the world,” the group said in a statement, adding that the “occupying […]
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Sudan’s already troubled health sector faces the risk of “disaster” after more than two weeks of heavy fighting have rocked the poverty-stricken country, a UN World Health Organization official warns. Even before the deadly conflict broke out on April 15, “the healthcare system in Sudan faced numerou...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fierce fighting broke out again Monday between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries despite the formal extension of a truce, after the United Nations warned the humanitarian situation had reached “breaking point”. More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on April 15 between Sudan’s d...
