ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has been using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google and Amazon’s cloud service for its war on Gaza, according to reports by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew language news site Local Call. An audio recording they obtained reveals that Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the Israeli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas will continue Gaza cease-fire negotiations after the selection of Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief, a group leader said on Wednesday. “The negotiations were managed by the leadership, and Sinwar was not far from the negotiation process. He was part of its details,” Osama Hamdan told Anadolu. Hamas named Sinwa...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that “no one should escalate” the conflict in the Middle East and Washington has communicated that message directly to Iran and Israel. “No one should escalate this conflict. We’ve been engaged in intense diplomacy with allies and partners, commun...
Annapolis, United States – AFP The United States will not tolerate attacks on American troops in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, after rocket fire in Iraq wounded seven US personnel. The Monday attack was the third in just over three weeks on Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, which hosts American […]
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has sparked outrage by suggesting it might be “justified and moral” to let two million Palestinians in Gaza starve. He said it will bring pressure on Hamas to return Israeli prisoners. Smotrich’s comments at a conference hosted by right-wing news outlet Israel Hayom have been condemned as genocidal by ...
Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential election, has praised Walz for his commitment to working families. The Trump campaign has called Walz a “dangerously liberal extremist.” Analysts say Walz’s progressive policies, such as providing free ...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday. Five people were killed in the Jenin area and four in Aqaba town in Tubas district when Israeli forces carried out early-morning raids, the health ministry in Ramallah said. The Isr...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday appointed Yahya Sinwar as its new political chief. Sinwar will replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president on July 31, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel. Hamas a...
MILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has announced the completion of an investigation by its Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into allegations made by Israel against staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) following events on October 7 last year. In relation to the findings, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the Lebanese-Israeli border. In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the fighters as Ali Jamal al-Din Jawad and Ali Ghaleb Shuqair, which they said were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” in reference to Hezboll...
