Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would bring a US-brokered proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon to his government for approval as soon as Tuesday evening. In a televised address, Netanyahu said he would put “a ceasefire outline” to ministers “this evening”. He did not say how long the truce would last, […]
Moscow on Thursday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine for the first time, Kyiv said, marking the latest escalation of the conflict since Ukraine fired Western-supplied long-range missiles on Russia. The Ukrainian air force said in a statement that Russian forces in the morning had launched several types of missiles at the central city […]
The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif. The ICC’s move now theoretically limits the movement of Netanyahu as any of the court’s 124 national members would be obliged to arrest him on their […]
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 […]
