Hezbollah names Naim Qassem as new leader, Israel says he won't last long

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah named Naim Qassem as its new leader Tuesday — but Israel said his tenure would be "temporary.” Tap for the full brief.

Mexico's Sinaloa state reports 14 murders in one day amid wave of violence

Authorities in Mexico's Sinaloa state said Sunday that at least 14 people were killed the day before amid a wave of violence that erupted after drug trafficker Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada's arrest in ...

Sikh separatist claims Indian “spy network” operates in US and Canada

Canada and the U.S. must get tougher on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for trying to silence dissidents on foreign soil, a controversial Sikh separatist who was the target of an a...

Palestinians say 100,000 residents trapped in Israel's north Gaza assault

Israeli tanks thrust deeper on Monday into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, in what the military said wer...

Ghana slams Reuters report on jihadis finding refuge in its north

Ghana's government on Saturday rejected Reuters reporting on Islamist militants in Burkina Faso that found they are discreetly using neighboring Ghana's north as a logistical and medical base to su...

Russian state media says Moscow extracted a US citizen working for it out of Ukraine

Russian state media said on Monday that Moscow's forces fighting in Ukraine had successfully extracted a U.S. citizen from eastern Ukraine who had secretly helped them target Ukraine for at least t...

US missile agency scales back Guam defense plans

A proposed multibillion-dollar missile defense system for Guam has been reduced to 16 sites on the island from the original 22, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said in a draft environmental impact ...

Norway to buy US air-to-air missiles for over $360M

Norway has agreed with U.S. authorities to buy AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM air defense missiles for more than 4 billion Norwegian crowns ($362.91 million), the Norwegian military said on Monday. Tap for the ...

Philippines confident in US security policy continuity regardless of election

The Philippines is confident in the continuity of U.S. policies in the Asia-Pacific region after the U.S. presidential election and the two countries' ties will remain strong regardless of the outc...

Israel hit Iran former nuclear weapons test building and missile facilities, researchers say

An American researcher said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit a building that was part of Iran's defunct nuclear weapons development program, and he and another researcher said facilities used t...

Peacekeepers withdrew from watchtower in Lebanon’s Dhayra after taking Israeli fire

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon said on Friday that its peacekeepers withdrew from a watchtower in one of its posts near Dhayra town in south Lebanon on Tuesday after Israeli forces fired at it. Ta...

Israeli forces storm Gaza hospital as strikes kill 72 across enclave, medics say

Israeli military strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis have killed at least 38 people since Thursday night and Israeli forces launched a night-time raid on a hospital in the north ...

Israeli strike kills journalists in Lebanon

An Israeli strike killed three journalists in south Lebanon on Friday, Lebanon's health ministry said, and the UN refugee agency warned that Israeli airstrikes on a border crossing with Syria were ...

Israel says five soldiers killed in action in Lebanon

The Israeli military said on Thursday that five soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in southern Lebanon, where troops have been battling Iran-backed Hezbollah. Tap for the full brief.

Fearing China's hypersonic weapons, US Navy seeks to arm ships with Patriot missiles

Fearing China will deploy hypersonic weapons to sink ships in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is moving forward with a plan to arm some of its vessels with Patriot interceptor missiles, two senior defen...