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Lebanese army must clear Hezbollah from Yellow Line to Litani River, Katz says

The pilot program for IDF withdrawals from portions of southern Lebanon while waiting to see whether the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) properly remove Hezbollah will initially focus on the zone between the IDF’s Yellow Line and the Litani River, Defense Minister Israel Katz said at a briefing for military reporters on…

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Press watchdog CPJ reviews Gaza casualty list after accusations members tied to Gazan terror groups

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is conducting a full review of its database of journalists killed during the Israel-Hamas War after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) published obituaries identifying as combatants individuals previously listed by CPJ as journalists.

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Another mechanism stopping Israel from defending against terrorists - opinion

Following the first round of negotiations in Switzerland, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced that “the parties [the US and Islamic Republic of Iran] agreed on the creation of a deconfliction cell between the parties, the Lebanese Republic, and facilitated by the Mediators [Qatar and Pakistan], to ensure adherence to…

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Why Pakistan’s Afghan air strikes aren’t stopping armed attacks

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan struck targets of what it claimed were hideouts of an armed group in three Afghan provinces overnight and summoned Kabul’s envoy on Monday morning, after an assault on a Sindh Rangers base in Karachi over the weekend killed three paramilitary personnel and wounded four others.

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‘Like living in hell’: The Iran war leaves Indian seafarers dead and trapped at sea

Bhargavi Suresh, 36, from Visakhapatnam in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, spends hours sitting before a framed photograph of her husband, Patnala Suresh. She wipes the glass clean, kisses the picture, hugs it tightly and places it back on the table, only to reach for it again moments later.

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Sudan says China has waived $50m loan: What’s in it for Khartoum, Beijing?

China has waived loans worth $50m that it had given to Sudan, the two countries said over the weekend. The agreement comes three years into a war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has shrunk the country’s economy by roughly 40 percent, according to the United Nations.

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Waiting for Wimbledon and the start of rice season: photos of the day – Monday

View image in fullscreenHaro, SpainPeople attend the annual Battle of Wine in La Rioja province, where more than 40,000 litres of wine are poured among participants using all kinds of ‘weapons,’ from water pistols to sprayersPhotograph: Villar López/EPAShareView image in fullscreenDurrës, AlbaniaBeachgoers on an art…

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IRGC dismisses claim 20 m. barrels of oil used to promote, fund war effort

IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi appeared to play down Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s claim last week that his government had allocated 20 million barrels of oil to the IRGC Aerospace Force to support the war effort, saying that “it is the government's responsibility to support the armed fo…

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Snaring a naval battlespace

“Before the University of NSW (C8) was the NSW Institute of Technology, sited on the old Kensington Racecourse, I was six years old and learning piano from Miss Wilson,” writes Adrian Bell of Davistown. “The infamous Basil boys from Doncaster Avenue took great delight in giving me a bashing and throwing my music les…

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Penelope Keith – a life in pictures

View image in fullscreenPenelope Anne Constance Hatfield was born in Sutton, Surrey on 2 April 1940. She adopted her stepfather’s surname, started in repertory theatre and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963Photograph: PAShareView image in fullscreenKeith’s first work in television was in the army conscript…

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