US President Joe Biden has cleared Kyiv to use long-range American missiles against military targets inside Russia, a US official told AFP on Sunday, hours after Russia targeted Ukraine’s power grid in a deadly barrage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long pushed for authorisation from Washington to use the powerful Army Tactical Missile System, known […]
Strikes by the Israel military killed dozens in Gaza on Sunday, the civil defence said, while also hitting a Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut’s international airport. Israel has been fighting on two fronts since September, intensifying attacks on Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah after nearly a year of cross-border clashes alongside its war on Hamas in the Gaza […]
Russian air strikes targeted at power grids across Ukraine have left swathes of the country in darkness. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “massive attack” happened Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning. The ministry of energy said one of the two power lines of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was cut off due to the […]
The United Nations Human Rights Office says nearly 70 percent of verified fatalities from Israel’s continuous bombardment of Gaza are women and children. The agency stated this in a report published on Friday. The report contains a detailed analysis of the effect of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip from November 2023 to April 2024. […]
Ukraine said on Friday it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, mainly troops that had died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region. The exchange of prisoners and bodies of killed military personnel remains one of the few areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded in 2022. “The […]
The Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border on Tuesday as Syrian state media reported residential buildings were also hit. The Israeli military said it “conducted an intelligence-based strike on weapons storage facilities used by Hezbollah’s munitions unit in the area of Al-Qusayr”. “Hezbollah’s munitions […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday “now is the time” to end the conflict in Gaza, and urged Israel to avoid further escalation with Iran. Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and has pledged to hit back against Iran’s October 1 missile strike. In Lebanon, AFP correspondents […]
Israel’s army confirmed Tuesday it “eliminated” Hezbollah’s Hashem Safieddine, an apparent successor of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb three weeks ago. “It can now be confirmed that in an attack approximately three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, and Ali Hussein Hazima, the head […]
Fighting raged on two fronts Sunday as Israel targeted what it said was a Hezbollah “command centre” in the Lebanese capital, while in Gaza rescuers reported 73 people killed in a single air strike. The strikes on Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iran-backed group of attempting to […]
Israel says a drone was launched toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house on Saturday morning. Netanyahu and his wife were not in the building, and there were no causalities, the prime minister’s office said. It was not immediately clear who the mastermind of the drone was, but earlier, the Israeli military said 55 rockets were […]
