Hamas has elected Khalil Al Hayya as the new head of its political bureau, placing one of the movement’s most experienced negotiators at the centre of its leadership during a period where Gaza is still facing Israeli genocide and the region faces a renewed war.
Tehran has said it is ready to "welcome" an American ground invasion, as US Central Command (Centcom) reports its ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran after the deaths of American soldiers in Jordan and Iraq over the weekend.
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, plans to fast-track an expanded piece of legislation that would cut off exiled anti-war Russians from online banking, real estate transactions and consular services, independent media reported Monday.
The United States and Iran are locked in an increasingly escalatory cycle of strikes that they each claim is aimed at preventing the other from securing military dominance over the Strait of Hormuz.
Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced they are imposing a new maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in response for a recent attack on Sanaa Airport, and after years of the kingdom leading a blockade of Houthi-controlled Yemeni ports.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have struck and "destroyed" US military sites and equipment in Bahrain and Kuwait, the IRGC-run Fars News Agency claimed on Sunday.
A Philippine Navy personnel is injured after he was hit by a China Coast Guard personnel during an encounter in Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea on July 20, 2026.
Russia is assessing the damage after Ukrainian drone strikes targeted warehouses operated by privately owned online retailer Wildberries on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring more than 70 others.
Tehran has said it is ready to "welcome" an American ground invasion, as US Central Command (Centcom) reports its ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran after the deaths of American soldiers in Jordan and Iraq over the weekend.
Thousands of protestors gathered outside Japan’s parliament in Tokyo on Sunday to oppose Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s plans to revise the country’s pacifist constitution and expand its military capabilities.
Thousands of protestors gathered outside Japan’s parliament in Tokyo on Sunday to oppose Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s plans to revise the country’s pacifist constitution and expand its military capabilities.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military on Monday accused China's coast guard of allegedly injuring a Filipino sailor during an incident in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play. If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’
The US military is bombing Iran for what is now the ninth straight day of renewed fighting, in a campaign which has expanded to include both civic and military infrastructure, also as Iranian retaliatory attacks keep up the pressure on the Gulf states, and have reached into Jordan, which deadly effect on an American…
MANILA, Philippines — Akbayan on Monday condemned what it described as a “barbaric” and deliberate attack by the China Coast Guard (CCG) on Philippine Navy personnel in Ayungin Shoal.
A Russian strike on a ship near the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa has killed at least 10 people, while Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones to attack Moscow, a day after Kyiv was hit by one of the heaviest barrages of ballistic missiles of the war.
Mediators have passed Iran a proposal to de-escalate the war with the US that would offer a 10-day ceasefire to find ways to revive an interim deal reached last month, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Monday declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia effective immediately, their military spokesperson said in a televised speech.
US equity futures rebound from Friday's selling, indicating a firmer start to the week with S&P futures rising 0.5% at 8.00am ET, and Nasdaq futures up 1% after a sluggish start to the session, after Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it had received proposals from mediators about the conflict with the US. In premarket tr…
Billions of dollars have been wiped from the budget deficit and government debt thanks to the ongoing strength of commodity prices and the nation’s jobs market, but consumers face more pain as the war against Iran risks a fresh spike in petrol prices beyond $2 a litre.
Tatsuaki Inoue, a member of the Japan Association for Recovery and Repatriation of War Casualties, leads volunteers to pay respects ahead of their excavation work to find remains of Japanese soldiers who died during WWII and washed ashore on the coastline of Hengchun township, Pingtung county, southern Taiwan, Monda…
Video footage circulating online appears to show the moment Iranian missiles hit an airbase in Jordan, killing two American service members. The Iranian attack also left one missing and four requiring hospitalization, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
As the United States escalates its strikes on Iran, Tehran is hitting back, targeting military and civilian infrastructure across the Gulf states and Jordan while avoiding attacks on US naval assets deployed near its coast and on Israel – a strategy that analysts say is intended to pressure US President Donald Trump…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) thanked the “Honorable people and mujahid soldiers (those who struggle for jihad) of Jordan,” claiming it was provided with intelligence that supported recent attacks on the US military, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported on Monday morning.
Years of war, instability, weak governance, and public policy failures have left 15.4 million Yemenis without access to clean water and 17.4 million without adequate sanitation and hygiene, creating conditions for preventable public health crises, according to a newly published report by the Sana’a Center and the Ar…
Hamas on Monday named Khalil al-Hayya, who served as chief negotiator for the terrorist organization during the Israel-Hamas war, as the new head of its political bureau.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has thanked Jordanian civilians and military personnel for allegedly providing the “accurate intelligence” it used to strike US forces and aircraft stationed in the kingdom.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has thanked Jordanian civilians and military personnel for allegedly providing the “accurate intelligence” it used to strike US forces and aircraft stationed in the kingdom.
In an official statement, Hamas announced that Khalil al-Hayya has been elected as the head of the political bureau of the Islamic movement, succeeding Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in Gaza by the Israeli army in October 2024.
US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has approved a pilot project to house Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, abandoning, at least for now, its initial plans for the reconstruction of the war-devastated territory.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military said Chinese coast guard personnel aboard a motorboat repeatedly struck a Filipino sailor on the head with a wooden baton Monday in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, injuring him and damaging his smaller vessel.
The death of two American service members in a missile attack blamed on Tehran has prompted Washington to expand strikes on Iran, raising fears of a wider confrontation in what is being described as an escalatory trap.