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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Lebanon on Wednesday extradited a former Syrian military officer under ousted President Bashar Assad and he will be put on trial in Syria, the Interior Ministry said.
Gaza’s civil defence recovered the remains during a three-day operation, Al Jazeera reported.
Israel’s military has for the first time admitted that it opened fire on a vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family in Gaza City two-and-a-half years ago.
Elected members of the UN Security Council and countries set to join it next year voiced alarm on Wednesday over an eight-month deadlock over leadership of its subsidiary bodies, led by a dispute over who should lead its Iran sanctions committee.
The IDF has released its findings from five internal probes into incidents in which its soldiers killed innocent people. (Reuters: Ronen Zvulun)
People vote in elections for a variety of reasons. Foremost, they wish to have their voices heard, and they believe their vote truly can make a difference.
Iraq is seeking to disarm Iranian-backed militias. Under Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, Baghdad says it wants the arms of the militias to be under state control. The militias know Baghdad has US backing to pressure the groups.
President Donald Trump's administration has told Congress it is sending more than $206 million for a proposed Gaza peacekeeping force, the first significant funding for the stalled US plan to rebuild the devastated enclave.
DUBAI— The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran on Wednesday after the UAE said it had come under renewed fire from the country — a move that will further isolate the Islamic Republic, which is suffering under U.S. sanctions and a blockade.
Israeli forces wounded two Palestinians, aged 70 and 15, during a raid on a home in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
On Tuesday, pro-Palestine legal body Hind Rajab Foundation filed yet another criminal complaint against an IDF soldier abroad, this time in India.
Israel’s recent airstrike on Syria forms part of a larger context of tensions between Israel and Turkey over Syria. Some Israeli officials believe that there could be a future clash in Syria.
France is to expel two Iranian diplomats from the embassy in Paris, amid a diplomatic row that demonstrates a rise in tension between the countries.
The scandal and controversy over the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier continues, despite the Trump administration and top military brass reiterating this week that the issues have been hugely overblown. It's long been reported that the supercarrier which is front line in the war against Iran has suffered resupply proble…
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s hardline-dominated parliament has approved the broad outlines of a plan presented as a means of combatting foreign “infiltration”, with a consequential focus on academia, media and the cultural sector.
By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Canada’s secretary of state for international development, Randeep Sarai, visited Lebanon to announce new humanitarian aid, condemning what he called Israel’s “unlawful invasion” of Lebanon.
Diesel prices in California hit $7 per gallon again Wednesday as the wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East knock out refineries, triggering a fuel supply crunch around the world.
Election campaigns do not bring out the better angels of our nature. Just look at National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Roman Gofman, held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last week in which they discussed Turkey's military presence in Syria, three people familiar with the matter said.
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a war crimes complaint in India against an Israeli soldier accused of deliberately demolishing civilian property in Gaza.
Military orders criminal investigation into deaths of five-year-old and six family members in Gaza in 2024
Israeli strikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians in two separate attacks targeting a Gaza City police post and Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Jared Kushner’s visit to Israel was mainly to talk about Gaza. He should have come with a much broader message from US President Donald Trump.
Residents of the settlement of Afeka, south of the Hebron Hills, were evacuated after a fire was detected in the woods near the area on Wednesday.
City University of New York (CUNY) has agreed to disclose information about its investment holdings and contracts with 30 companies with alleged ties to Israel.
Manchester City’s Tijjani Reijnders, left, fights for the ball with Team K-league’s Lee Ki Hyeok during a friendly soccer match in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a war crimes complaint in India against an Israeli soldier accused of deliberately demolishing civilian property in Gaza.
The 10-year memorandum of understanding between the United States and Israel, signed in 2016 and worth $38 billion, expires in 2028, and discussions about its successor are already underway.
Thai police launched a sweeping operation against foreign business networks suspected of using Thai citizens as nominee shareholders to conceal foreign ownership of companies, land and restricted businesses, with arrest warrants issued for 20 Israelis on Koh Samui, Walla reported on Wednesday.
A new national faculty audit found that over half of the university faculty and related program records it examined across Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Hebrew language, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies were associated with documented anti-Israel public positions.
Fourth Quarter founder Dr. Yoav Heller said his emerging political party aims to break Israel’s political polarization by bringing new leaders and ideas into the Knesset, while leaving open the possibility that the movement could ultimately decide not to run.
A UK court was told on Tuesday that Tony Greenstein, a prominent Jewish anti-Zionist activist and founding member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), issued a “rallying cry” inviting support for Hamas on October 7, 2023.
More than 4,700 of the 4,800 dunams of land in the Palestinian village of Um al-Safa, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, have been confiscated, Al Jazeera reported, as Israeli settlers expand outposts and infrastructure on the village's land.
TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces warned Gulf countries against assisting the United States military on Wednesday, hours after the United Arab Emirates announced it was severing economic ties with Tehran following new attacks on shipping.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot condemned on Wednesday violence in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, and added that this justified France's recent sanctions against Israel's far-right police minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Israel’s military has for the first time admitted that it opened fire on a vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family in Gaza City two-and-a-half years ago.
File photo of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank next to the so-called E1 project in East Jerusalem, taken in February 2026
More than seven decades after the United States helped to overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1953, the two countries are again locking horns.
More than two years after Hind Rajab was killed, becoming a symbol of the suffering of children in Gaza, Israel’s military, long accused of the atrocity, has announced a criminal investigation into the death of the five-year-old girl.
Tijjani Reijnders has completed his move from Manchester City to Saudi Pro League club Al Qadsiah.
Hadash, Ta'al and Balad signed an agreement on Wednesday to run together in the upcoming election, reviving the Joint List after weeks of negotiations and internal disputes.
Former Israel Navy commander V.-Adm. (ret.) Eliezer "Chiney" Marom said in a Wednesday 103FM interview that Israel's strike in Syria was intended to prevent Turkey from establishing itself in the country, but assessed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was unlikely to go to war with Israel.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid presented a six-point plan for rebuilding Israel's foreign relations at the B'Yachad National Security Conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, warning that the country's international standing had entered a "disaster zone" and that foreign policy must be treated as an integral part of natio…
Three members of a Palestinian British family have drowned after entering the sea off England’s Sussex coast, the Palestinian embassy in London says.
Gente pasando el tiempo en la playa mientras se ven embarcaciones comerciales fondeadas en el estrecho de Ormuz ante Bandar Abbas, Irán, el miércoles 5 de agosto de 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)