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Israeli forces have launched attacks across Gaza, hitting a mosque, a water desalination plant and tents housing displaced people, killing at least seven people and wounding several others.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a situational assessment in the West Bank on Monday, following recent outbreaks of violence in the area.
There's a popular expression on Wall Street: KISS, which stands for, Keep It Simple, Stupid. Amid a torrent of complicated cross currents, it might present the best approach to trading this week's news.
The US on Monday was expected to broaden the scope of secondary sanctions on firms and countries that do business with Iran, as Washington seeks to isolate the regime's economy in an effort to break the deadlock in the war.
Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy who betrayed the United States, has called on Israel to prepare for war against Egypt and Turkey as he launches his campaign for a Knesset seat in October’s election.
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy who betrayed the United States, has called on Israel to prepare for war against Egypt and Turkey as he launches his campaign for a Knesset seat in October’s election.
A new report by the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), supported by Progressive International (PI), argues that Israel has a documented history of systematic sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians “across detention centers, homes, military operations, and systems of surveillance, from the Nakba of…
KYIV — Ukraine faces a €23 billion hole in its defense budget this year, leaving Kyiv scrambling for cash to fight Russia even as Western leaders gathered in the capital to mark the country's independence day and pledge ongoing support.
Former Pussy Riot member Rita Flores has revealed that she was coerced into working as an informant for Russia’s FSB security service, saying that she gathered information on anti-war activists and was involved in a failed assassination plot against an exiled Kremlin critic.
Yemen's Houthis on Monday targeted the Saudi oil tanker Amzan in the Red Sea off Yanbu with a ballistic missile and drones, the Iran-aligned militant group announced.
The United Kingdom is set to share classified weapons information with Ukraine to enable it to produce its own version of the Storm Shadow long-range cruise missile, designed jointly with France, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham visits Kyiv on his first foreign trip as the UK’s prime minister.
The UK has handed secret blueprints to Ukraine that will allow the country to build its own long-range cruise missiles.
Beijing has ramped up its law-enforcement and survey operations around island since Tokyo and Manila announced boundary talks
Beijing has ramped up its law-enforcement and survey operations around island since Tokyo and Manila announced boundary talks
Another kite, presumably launched from Gaza, was found on Monday stuck in a tree near Nahal Oz, one of the Gaza border communities.
Jordan and China called for a negotiated end to the US-Iran war that addresses the “root causes” of the conflict after King Abdullah met President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday.
Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham, center, appears also on a giant screen, left, as National Guard of Ukraine and European leaders attend a commemorative ceremony marking Ukraine’s 35th Independence Day outside St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
Ukrainian war veteran Evheny Lakhnenko puts on his goggles during a sporting event to encourage people and injured soldiers to do sports in a lake at on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, during the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will raise tariffs on imports of cars, trucks and auto parts from Canada to 50% on Jan. 1, 2027, following a breakdown in trade negotiations last week.
The IDF's pre-October 7 conceptzia (military mentality of containment) is still prevalent across the military, the October Council warned in a report released on Monday.
Recent deadly Russian attack waves on Ukrainian cities - especially the capital - have prompted France to announce it will be speeding up deliveries of anti-air defense missiles to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the two Israeli co-directors of No Other Land, investigates ‘Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians’ during the war
Ukraine and Russia exchanged 10 prisoners of war each, officials in Kyiv and Belarusian state media announced Monday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling the swap a “special stage” of ongoing prisoner exchanges with Moscow.
The U.S. military killed two men in a strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific that it said was transporting narcotics, U.S. Southern Command announced early Monday. It was the first such strike by the military since June 21.
Military authorities in Chad have accused Sudan of launching drone strikes against a convoy inside Chadian territory.
The Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable truth about modern warfare: a military can destroy much of an adversary’s force, achieve overwhelming air superiority and strike thousands of targets, yet still fail to control the geography that gives the adversary strategic leverage.
DAMASCUS - An Israeli drone struck a car near Beit Jinn on August 22, injuring a Syrian man identified in local reports as Ammar Saeed Hamada, as Israel pressed military operations in southern Syria that it says are needed to stop attacks on its territory.
Israeli missile and suicide drone company UVision Air and US defense technology company Mistral have won another contract from the US Army to supply Hero 120 suicide drones. The order is worth $50 million. The Hero 120 has a maximum range of about 40 to 60 kilometers and its duration of operation is about an hour. T…
Lebanese security officials believe that the extensive Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in recent days are not merely localized operations but are intended to lay the groundwork for a broader military campaign, Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.
South Korea says the United States has cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month due to constraints on force availability caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.
The Kremlin has accused Britain of siding with Ukraine in the war and said the latest missile announcement would fuel the fire of the conflict.
Iran has denied reports that it has been invited to join the Mecca defense pact comprising Saudi Arabia, Türkiye. and Pakistan, while confirming that proposals have been made for talks with the three countries on regional security.
A four-year-old child was among three Palestinians killed in Israeli air attacks in central Gaza on Sunday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to escalate attacks over the alleged launching of paper kites from the war-torn enclave.
Developers disclose details of Chiang Kung hypersonic interceptor with active radar to convince lawmakers to approve funding
Developers disclose details of Chiang Kung hypersonic interceptor with active radar to convince lawmakers to approve funding
Turkey is a “rival and not an enemy” to Israel, security officials said on Sunday, warning that the situation could change amid the ongoing shifts in the Middle East.
Israel is set to develop offensive space capabilities as part of the Defense Ministry’s multiyear budget plan for the space sector, including systems designed to defend Israeli satellites from hostile spacecraft and weapons capable of striking targets on Earth from space.
House Democratic leader meets with president’s son-in-law has ignited fury amongst own party
Israel’s strike on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in northwestern Syria has pushed an increasingly difficult Israeli-Turkish relationship into one of its most sensitive arenas yet, raising the prospect that Syria could become not only a point of competition between the two regional powers, but also the place wher…
A scarred but majestic live oak at a Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina is getting a new lease on life. It’s known as a “witness tree” because it was there during the pivotal but oft-overshadowed September 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs. (AP video by Allen Breed)
French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will co-chair a Coalition of the Willing meeting Monday aimed at strengthening support for Ukraine and increasing pressure on Russia.
In the coming hours, the Trump administration is expected to unveil a sweeping campaign to economically isolate Iran and its trading partners, with China likely the primary target. The escalation is designed to force Tehran back to the negotiating table, as its only leverage - the Strait of Hormuz - appears to be qu…
Dutch public broadcaster Avrotros has pulled out of next year's Eurovision Song Contest, saying that the competition can no longer be considered neutral while a participating country remains involved in a large-scale military conflict.
Japan does not plan to supply Ukraine with weapons, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara has said. At a press briefing on Monday, he told reporters that Tokyo “is not considering any deliveries” of defensive or offensive weapons “at this time.”
The public broadcaster in the Netherlands has announced it will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest because the event can “no longer be considered neutral” due to ongoing divisions over the war in Gaza.
Warehouses belonging to Russia's second-largest online retailer have been hit by a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes.
The US Treasury Secretary has threated Iran with "the single greatest financial offensive ever", claiming the US-Israel war with Iran was "entering its endgame".
CAIRO (AP) — Authorities in eastern Libya said they executed 10 people after their conviction by military courts on terrorism-related charges.
Controversy is growing about the extent to which Iran is smuggling weapons to Hezbollah through Syria, with defense sources, probably connected to Defense Minister Israel Katz, leaking that the issue is heating up, while the IDF has said that there is no major change taking place.