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GILAS Pilipinas coach Tim Cone said that he would love to see young big man Kai Sotto play for the national team when it opens the second round of the FIBA World Cup 2027 Asian Qualifiers against Jordan and Iran late this August.
Israel has carried out a drone attack on Mayfadoun in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, the National News Agency is reporting.
Hamas has welcomed the joint statement from several Arab countries following a meeting of foreign ministers in Amman which condemned Israel’s escalation in Gaza, saying it “underscores the gravity of the escalation and violations perpetrated by the occupying government, which threaten the future of the entire agreem…
Deputy Chairman of the Yemeni Consultation and Reconciliation Authority for Yemen’s Saudi-backed government Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi condemned the Houthi attacks on government positions in Hadramout and Marib on Thursday.
A judge has ordered a hearing in which he will decide whether five Palestine Action defendants convicted of criminal damage will be sentenced as terrorists.
UN experts on Thursday urged Iran to end an escalating crackdown on minorities in the country, particularly Kurds and Baluch communities.
Kurdish politics has undergone a dramatic transformation since Turkey launched its so-called “terror-free Turkey” initiative in October 2024 by engaging with the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
From Gaza, where war has reshaped every aspect of daily life, I ask a question that belongs not only to Israelis, Palestinians, or Lebanese, but to all humanity: Where is the voice of wisdom?
A 70-year-old man died after contracting West Nile Virus, one of 10 confirmed cases since the beginning of the season, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday.
For nearly three decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied on ultra-Orthodox parties as one of the pillars of his political survival.
Israeli bulldozers destroyed scores of olive trees in Palestinian villages near Jenin on Wednesday, as part of an ongoing campaign of uprooting olive groves across the occupied West Bank.
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Following reports that US forces have "used up virtually all" of their precision, long-range missiles in futile attempts to first trigger an Iranian regime change and then to compel Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, now comes reporting that an angry President Trump confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in recen…
Yemen’s Houthis said on Thursday that they carried out missile and drone attacks on “Saudi military deployments” in Yemen's Saudi-backed government controlled areas of Marib and Hadramout.
A body in an advanced state of decomposition was found in an open area near the Yarkon Interchange on Thursday morning during police searches for Eldar Dayan, a 23-year-old Dimona resident who has been missing for nearly three weeks.
For nearly three decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied on ultra-Orthodox parties as one of the pillars of his political survival.
United States President Donald Trump has vowed to hunt down “leakers” after several news reports detailing a dangerous depletion of munitions stockpiles amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Israel is suffering from a similar interceptor shortage as the United States, former Israeli Navy commander Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eliezer Marom claimed in a 103FM interview on Wednesday.
The majority of Israelis believe that there is danger to the integrity of the upcoming elections, the July 2026 Israeli Voice Index revealed on Thursday.
Turkey’s draft law set to offer amnesty to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) would allow Ankara to shift its intelligence and economic resources from its “long-running counterterrorism campaign” to other regional priorities, Turkish foreign policy analyst Burak Can Celik told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
As orders from Israeli defense tech companies reached approximately $330 million in exports, the government met on Thursday with CEOs of some of the country's top defense startups to discuss Israel’s defense strategy, which includes munitions independence, pushing for the development of "the next surprises," and inc…
The relatively small protests that have broken out in Iraq after Baghdad failed to pay state employees their July salaries, which have so far been tempered by the focus on the Ziyarat al-Arbaeen Shia pilgrimage, could turn violent if the delays continue, Dr. Ronen Zeidel told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
At least 300 children have been killed in Gaza in the roughly 300 days since a so-called “ceasefire” was announced on October 10, 2025 – an average of one child a day, the United Nations children’s agency says.
Across Washington and European capitals, the weakening of Iran’s regional proxies is increasingly presented as proof that Tehran’s influence in the Middle East has been decisively diminished.
President’s comment come after report he had demanded answers from Pete Hegseth over alleged shortages
Israeli bulldozers destroyed scores of olive trees in Palestinian villages near Jenin on Wednesday, as part of an ongoing campaign of uprooting olive groves across the occupied West Bank.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — El parlamento ugandés aprobó el jueves la solicitud del gobierno de autorización para desplegar tropas en Gaza como parte de una fuerza internacional.
La periodista libanesa Amal Khalil del diario Al-Akhbar cerca de la aldea Qasmiyeh en el Líbano, el 22 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Lebanese and international rights groups have accused Israel of intentionally targeting and killing a Lebanese journalist and obstructing medical workers from reaching her as she lay critically wounded.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Thursday sought and won parliamentary approval to deploy troops to Gaza as part of an international force.
Israeli settlers attacked a small Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, injuring people, destroying homes and smashing their power source, the military and residents said Thursday, in the latest in a spate of violent confrontations.
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As Israel approaches elections, too many politicians are promising to form a “Zionist government.” The phrase is presented as self-evidently virtuous, as though liberal democratic Israeli could not possibly object to it.
An Israeli settler hs been charged with reckless manslaughter over the death of a prominent Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank, the first since October 2023.
Nearly three years after the October 7 Hamas attack, Israel’s national debate has been trapped in an exhausting and polarizing loop: how to address severe military manpower shortages while resolving the long-running dispute over military service for the Haredi community. Despite mounting Supreme Court intervention, …
Israel will focus its development efforts on quantum computing and physical artificial intelligence, with the objective of becoming a leading nation in both areas, the Prime Minister's Office National AI Directorate and the Finance Ministry Accountant General's Department announced on Tuesday.
Players stayed in country after Asian Cup in March
Five months into the US war with Iran, Americans who expect the Middle East to slide toward chaos outnumber those who see the war bringing more stability by three to one, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Six weeks after the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding, the deal survives mostly as a rumor about itself.
The US Air Force has begun relocating some of its aerial refueling aircraft that had been stationed at Ben-Gurion Airport in recent weeks, amid ongoing security developments, N12 reported on Thursday.
Baghdad, Iraq – A colloquial phrase by Iraqi Minister of Health Abdul Hussein al-Musawi uttered at a meeting for medical staff, health workers and others in Baghdad made many Iraqis concerned. “There is no money,” he said, which, to many, seemed closer to an official declaration regarding the scale of the financial …
As diplomatic efforts to end the United States-Israel war on Iran remain uncertain, Iranian authorities have tightened their internal security controls across the country, especially in the capital, Tehran. Over the last weeks, security forces and religious morality police have intensified restrictions, arrests, and…
The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered a critical juncture, with uncertainty about the future of the conflict leaving international markets and regional stability hanging in the balance.
Israel launched a national program to recruit Jewish educators from North America and place them in Israeli schools as the country confronts a growing shortage of qualified teachers.
Yesterday witnessed at least the eighth Saudi oil tanker attacked by the Houthis since the maritime blockade began on July 22, which is being followed by reports the Yemeni rebel group backed by Iran could be preparing for all-out war with Saudi Arabia.
Three human rights organisations have denounced an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that killed a journalist in April as a "war crime."
A British court has heard that a defendant in a Palestine Action trial accused of planning a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory was suffering from emotional turmoil at the time the coordination of the action was alleged to take place.
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who works for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, reports near a destroyed bridge in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
The Byzantine-era church in Nahariya that had been hit by a Hezbollah rocket in April has reopened to the public, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced in a Monday night social media post.