Analysis: Netanyahu faces doubts over goals, strategy and post-war plans

Over 100 days into Israel's campaign to destroy Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being challenged by members of his own war cabinet about strategy, pressured by Washington over post-war ...

Israel suffers highest one-day death toll in Gaza as 24 soldiers killed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Israel would not stop fighting in Gaza until "absolute victory" after it sustained its highest single-day death toll in the Palestinian encla...

Turkey to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid after 20 month delay

Turkey's parliament is widely expected to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delays. T...

Gaza hostage relatives burst into Israeli parliament, calls for action mount

A group of relatives of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Monday, demanding that the lawmakers do more to try to free the...

Latest strikes on Yemen's Houthis destroyed intended targets, UK says

U.S. and British forces carried out a new round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used by the Iran-aligned ...

US pledges $45M to boost coastal West Africa security

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged $45 million in additional financing to help fight conflict and bring stability to coastal West Africa, where insecurity linked to jihadist ...

Moldovan separatist leader calls for military readiness

The leader of Moldova's pro-Russian separatist Transdniestria region called on its defence and intelligence institutions on Monday to maintain a "high level of military preparedness" and hold regul...

US seeks probe into West Bank death of Palestinian-American teenager

The United States on Monday called for an investigation and for accountability "as appropriate" following the West Bank death of a 17-year-old Palestinian American, who Palestinian health officials...

US Navy declares two SEALs missing in Gulf of Aden as deceased

Two U.S. Navy SEALs who went missing in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month during a raid on a boat carrying Iranian weapons have not been located following an exhaustive search and their status ha...

US personnel suffer minor wounds in Iraq base attack, US official says

U.S. personnel suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq's security forces was wounded in an attack on Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base on Saturday, a U.S. official said on Saturday, speaking on cond...

Israeli forces storm Khan Younis hospital in bloodiest fighting of 2024

Israeli forces, advancing deep into western Khan Younis in Gaza's bloodiest fighting of the new year so far, stormed one hospital and placed another under siege on Monday, cutting the wounded off f...

Ron DeSantis ends 2024 campaign, endorses Trump over Haley as New Hampshire vote looms

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ended his fading presidential campaign on Sunday and endorsed Donald Trump just two days before the pivotal New Hampshire primary, leaving former U.N. Ambassador Nikki...

Russia to consider law confiscating property of offenders who “discredit” military

Russian lawmakers have prepared a bill allowing for the confiscation of money and property from people who spread "deliberately false information" about the country's armed forces, a senior member ...

Iranian and Hezbollah commanders help direct Houthi attacks in Yemen, sources say

Commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon's Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regi...

US strikes Houthi anti-ship missiles as trade disruptions grow

The U.S. launched new strikes against Houthi anti-ship missiles aimed at the Red Sea on Thursday, as growing tensions in the region's sea lanes disrupted global trade and raised fears of supply bot...