ISTANBUL (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has claimed to have attacked three US warships in the Red Sea as they were reportedly sailing to support Israel. In a statement, the Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had fired “23 ballistic and winged missiles and a drone” at “three US destroyers” in the ...
MADRID (AA) – More than 200 trade unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Spain observed a 24-hour general strike titled “Against the genocide and occupation in Palestine.” As part of the nationwide strike, demonstrations took place in the capital Madrid and other major cities such as Barcelona and Bilbao, with university stu...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has said that the death toll from Israeli assaults across the country has hit 1,540 since last October. The Disaster Risk Management Unit said in a report the number injured stands at 5,410 and “the number of displaced individuals registered in approved shelters had risen to 77,100 by Wednesday afternoon.” The [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel said Thursday that it is set to receive a military aid package from the US totaling $8.7 billion. The package coincides with the fourth consecutive day of extensive Israeli strikes against Lebanon, described as the largest since the 2006 war in Lebanon. “Director General of the Israel Ministry of Defense, Major [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right radical Zionist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to withdraw from the ruling coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a cease-fire with Hezbollah. The US, the EU, and nine other nations called on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21-day cease-fire amid an escalation in their cross-bord...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least seven Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes on homes across the war-torn Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Civil Defense Service said. The agency said five people, including two children, lost their lives and several others were injured in a strike on a house east of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that he had introduced legislation to block the sale of more than $20 billion in US arms sales to Israel. “Sending more weapons to (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s extremist government is unacceptable,” Sanders said in a statement. Stressing that American weapo...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Kremlin has urged Russians in Lebanon to leave the country for security reasons. The Russian embassy and other diplomatic missions in Lebanon are working to inform some 3,000 Russian citizens staying in Lebanon about the existing warnings and recommendations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press briefing in M...
ANKARA (AA) — Pope Francis has called on the international community to “make every effort to stop this terrible escalation” after days of intense Israeli airstrikes killed hundreds in Lebanon. “I am saddened by the news coming out of Lebanon,” the pope said at his weekly general audience at the Vatican, voicing hope &#...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the 79th session of UN General Assembly in New York to discuss a variety of issues, including Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Gaza, and a rising tide of Islamophobia, an official statement said on Wednesday. Condem...
