DOHA, Qatar -- Iran on Sunday warned that any Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip could expand the scope of the conflict elsewhere in the Middle East. Israeli troops manuever a tank near kibbutz Nahal Oz on the border with the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023. More than one million people have...
This combination photograph created on October 12, 2023 shows (L) a file photograph taken on October 24, 2022 of Israel's former defence minister Benny Gantz in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, and (R) a file photograph taken on October 12, 2023 of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Israel's order to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip has triggered "mass displacement" towards the south of the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said Sunday. An Israeli armoured vehicles advance towards the border with the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023, amid the ongoing...
TEHRAN, Iran -- One of Iran's most important film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made "The Cow" in...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian forces have made gains in their Ukraine offensive, President Vladimir Putin said Sunday, including in Avdiivka, a symbolic industrial hub where fighting has been fierce. "Our troops are improving their position in almost all of this area, which is quite vast," he said in...
JERUSALEM, Undefined -- The Israeli military said Sunday it had confirmed 126 people held as hostages by Hamas since the Palestinian militant group staged their deadly attack eight days earlier. Authorities had initially estimated about 150 Israeli and foreign captives after Hamas launched its...
French Education and Youth Minister Gabriel Attal (L) stands beside flowers layed in front of the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France on October 14, 2023, the day after a teacher was killed and two other people severely wounded in a knife attack. (DENIS CHARLET/AFP) ARRAS - France...
BEIJING, China - Chinese envoy Zhai Jun will visit the Middle East next week to push for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and promote peace talks, state broadcaster CCTV reported Sunday. Zhai "will visit the Middle East next week to coordinate with various parties for a ceasefire, to...
Protesters let off fireworks in Trafalgar Square after a 'March For Palestine', part of a pro-Palestinian national demonstration, in London on October 14, 2023, organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said Saturday that forcing thousands of hospital patients to evacuate to already overflowing hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip could be "tantamount to a death sentence." Israel has warned Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza ahead of an...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US on Saturday deployed a second aircraft carrier "to deter hostile actions against Israel" while President Joe Biden pushed for the protection of civilians amid the American ally's siege and bombardment of Gaza. The presence of the USS Eisenhower and its...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Council chief Charles Michel called a video-summit of EU leaders for next week to discuss the Israel-Hamas war, as the conflict entered its second week Saturday. He set it for Tuesday 5:30 pm (1530 GMT). "It is of utmost importance that the European Council, in...
