Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt closed due to security, US State Dept says

The Rafah border crossing into Gaza was closed on Wednesday due to an unspecified "security circumstance" but U.S. officials were working with Egypt and Israel to get it reopened, U.S. State Depart...

Gaza family loses three generations to Israeli air strike

The Israeli air strike hit Mohammed Hamdan's Gaza home soon after Islam's evening prayer on Tuesday, he said, killing 35 members of his extended family across three generations from Kamal, aged 70,...

Ukraine says Russian missile hits civilian vessel in Black Sea, kills one

A Russian missile damaged a Liberia-flagged civilian vessel entering a Black Sea port in Odesa region, killing one and injuring four people, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. Tap for the full ...

Ukrainian forces hold line in Avdiivka, military says

Russian forces, their numbers swelled by reserves, tightened their vise around the shattered eastern city of Avdiivka on Wednesday, but Ukrainian forces are holding defensive lines, Ukrainian milit...

Trump's GOP rivals clash at debate

For the third time, Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination took to the debate stage on Wednesday night in his absence, seeking a way to dislodge the former president from ...

Germany to send fighter jets to Romania to support NATO, source says

Germany will deploy four Eurofighter jets to Romania to support NATO's air policing mission from the end of November, a security source said — weeks after Russian attacks on Ukrainian Danube River ...

Israel's military spokesperson says Hamas has lost control in northern Gaza

Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza as thousands of residents have moved south, Israel's military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing on Wednesday. Tap for the ...

Drone malfunction prevented US casualties in Erbil attack

The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of the barracks housing Am...

Thousands of civilians flee north Gaza as Israeli troops and Hamas fighters clash

Thousands of Palestinian civilians trudged in a forlorn procession out of the north of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli...

Israeli troops arrest Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi in West Bank

Israeli troops on Monday arrested a Palestinian activist, regarded in the occupied West Bank as a hero since she was a teenager, on suspicion of inciting violence — but her mother said the allegati...

Ukraine spy agency says it killed Russia-installed lawmaker who set up torture sites with car bomb

Ukraine's military spy agency claimed responsibility for the assassination of a Russia-backed lawmaker with a car bomb in the occupied eastern city of Luhansk on Wednesday, an operation it said it ...

Ukraine says troops repel Russian attacks along front line

Ukraine's military said on Tuesday its troops had repelled Russian assaults in widely separated sectors of the war and braced for a fresh attempt to capture the key frontline eastern town of Avdiiv...

17 arrested in US-Italian joint raid against Sicilian mafia

Seven people were arrested in Italy and 10 in the United States following a joint Italo-American police raid against suspected mafia members, Italian police said Wednesday. Tap for the full brief.

Israel begins cutting off, infiltrating Hamas tunnels in latest phase of Gaza campaign

Israel's military is starting the next phase of its war against Hamas, targeting the Islamist group's labyrinth of tunnels and command structures in northern Gaza in an operation that may take mont...

Armed drones shot down over Iraqi airport housing US troops

Three armed drones were shot down Tuesday in two separate attacks over Erbil airport in northern Iraq — where coalition troops are housed, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said in a stat...