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Indictments were filed in the Haifa Magistrate's Court against two main suspects, a man and a woman, accused of running a human trafficking network in Haifa and Kiryat Shmona on Friday.
Turkey is developing a space and ballistic missile launch site in central Somalia, combining a satellite launch base for the Turkish space program with a testing site for long-range ballistic missiles, according to a report on Wednesday by French newspaper La Monde.
Israeli settlers raided several Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank, with local reports describing attacks, arrests and confrontations involving Israeli security forces.
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has warned it will respond with “utmost firmness and unprecedented force” to any attempt to target Saudi Arabia after the Houthis threatened attacks on airports and other strategic facilities.
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The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors in Rome against Israeli soldier Arik Ben Asulin, alleging that he had committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide during Israel's war on Gaza.
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is cancelling his scheduled trip to New York next week for Chiefs of Police Summit, Haaretz reported, citing sources in the ministry.
A week-long state funeral for the Islamic Republic’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has begun in Iran, more than four months after he was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes. The ceremonies mark the end of nearly four decades of Khamenei’s leadership. Millions of mourners are expected to attend, and it cou…
A group of Israeli settler activists gathered along the fence separating the occupied Golan Heights from southern Syria in mid-May.
America reaches its 250th anniversary confronting one of the great paradoxes of modern democracy. No nation has accumulated greater economic, military, technological, and cultural power, yet few advanced democracies appear so dissatisfied with themselves. Partly this is because of a colossal political dysfunction, a…
Israeli settlers attacked the village of Yerza, east of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, on Friday, injuring seven Palestinians, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
An explosion was reported in the southern town of Kounine, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
Intensive preparations and security measures took place on Friday for late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s massive funeral, as foreign officials and delegations began arriving in the country from dozens of nations to pay their respects.
Israeli forces struck around 10 “Hezbollah infrastructure sites” in southern Lebanon, the military said on X.
Houthi forces fired air defense missiles at a Saudi warplane that entered Yemeni airspace near Sanaa International Airport, the group claimed in a Friday statement by spokesperson Yahya Sarea.
The New York Times has issued a new report citing unnamed US officials who believe that Israel came close to assassinating Iran's top negotiators Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Israeli settlers attacked and wounded several Palestinians near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
The Israel-Lebanon framework agreement “threatens to betray the victims of war crimes” in Lebanon, according to six prominent human rights and media freedom organisations.
With the volatile situation in the Middle East, we sadly decided not to use our preferred carrier Emirates, and give Cathay Pacific a go via Hong Kong to Europe. We had recently flown premium economy with Emirates, and it was well worth the extra expense. Cathay Pacific’s version of premium economy felt no different…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Ange Postecoglou was named the new coach of Saudi Pro League champion Al-Nassr on a two-year deal on Friday.
Israeli settlers have attacked several parts of the occupied West Bank, seizing or destroying Palestinian homes and damaging essential supplies like water springs, electricity lines, and greenhouses, as they intensify their assaults and land seizures in recent weeks.
There are victories that do not end on the battlefield. Instead, they change the way a nation’s enemies, both near and far, perceive it. Operation Jonathan was one of them.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump on Friday and congratulated him on the 250th anniversary of US independence.
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Mona Mhanna feared for her life on many occasions once the Gaza war erupted, but would never leave her home or tent without Bella, her cat.
In managing protracted conflicts, pressure does not always succeed where war itself has failed, nor can political settlements alone guarantee a change in behaviour shaped over decades. For this reason, states sometimes resort to instruments more complex than conventional deterrence, designed not merely to raise cost…
For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the 50th anniversary was less a celebration of one of Israel’s most mythologized military operations than a reckoning with the distance between the country that rescued them and the one that failed to prevent another mass hostage crisis decades later.
Arlington: Ange Postecoglou will return to Asian football for his next challenge, signing a two-year deal with Al-Nassr, the leading Saudi Arabian club captained by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Nandito Badea and George Stana at a previous court appearance
LONDON (AP) — Two Romanian men were sentenced Friday to eight and 12 years in prison over the stabbing of a journalist from a Persian-language television station, an attack the judge said was carried out on behalf of the Iranian state.
Friday and Saturday kick off what will be up to a week of solemn funeral observances for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - a major historic event which is expected to draw some 15 to 20 million mourners in Tehran and across Iranian cities.
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, has appointed Ellie Cohanim as Senior Policy Advisor at the US Mission to the United Nations this week, according to a press statement released by the mission on Tuesday.
It is not known when – or whether – a proposed “de-confliction” group involving the US, Iran and Lebanon aimed at ending hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah will convene, according to a senior Lebanese diplomatic source and a US source familiar with the matter.
Iran has begun talks with Japanese companies under a US sanctions waiver allowing it to resume oil sales, though prospective buyers are seeking a longer waiver and reassurances about ship safety, three Iranian and Western sources said.
An Iraqi delegation visited Ankara to discuss the future of the Iraq-Turkey pipeline agreement and energy cooperation, Iraq's foreign ministry said on Friday, adding that the two sides agreed to continue technical and legal talks on oil exports.
More than 640,000 displaced people in Lebanon have returned home after a deal to end the war, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran's late Supreme Leader, killed by US and Israeli bombs.
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The International Criminal Court's prosecutor’s office has not applied for a single arrest warrant over crimes committed in Sudan's Darfur region since the country's devastating war began in April 2023, despite more than three years of investigation and repeated public assurances that charges were imminent, Middle E…
Yemen’s Houthis have threatened Saudi Arabia’s airports and vital assets if Riyadh violate its airspace or attempt to attack it, as the Iran-backed rebels accused the kingdom of an airspace intrusion.
When US President Donald Trump lined up regional and European leaders behind him for a press conference on the Gaza peace deal in Cairo in October, two leaders were conspicuously missing.
Yemen's armed forces said on Friday they confronted Saudi "warplanes" that they said attempted to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft from landing at Sanaa International Airport, according to a statement by military spokesperson Yahya Sarea.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani's second official visit to Lebanon carried a significance that went well beyond the formal meetings on his schedule.
PERFIL – El ayatolá Ali Jamenei, entonces líder supremo de Irán, habla ante miles de personas reunidas en la Plaza del Imán en Isfahán, Irán, el 30 de octubre de 2001. (AP Foto, Archivo)
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General view of the outside of the Central Criminal Court, commonly known as the Old Bailey, in London, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
Ghana's inflation nearly doubled in June as high fuel prices caused by the war on Iran continued to rattle the economy.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani's second official visit to Lebanon carried a significance that went well beyond the formal meetings on his schedule.