BEIRUT (AP) — A series of airstrikes in eastern Syria on Tuesday killed more than a dozen people, including an Iranian military adviser and a team member working for the World Health Organization, officials and reports said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the airstrikes in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour that […]
A large-scale Russian airstrike in the early hours of Sunday has once again caused fires and power outages in Ukraine, according to officials. The military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, said falling debris damaged heating and power grids in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih in the south. Consequently, six hospitals, more than […]
Russia attacked Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast with aerial bombs on the afternoon of Feb. 17, injuring at least five people and damaging residential buildings, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported. Kupiansk, a crucial logistics juncture that was temporarily occupied by Russia in 2022, is coming under renewed pressure by Moscow’s troops. According to prosecutors, Russian forces […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces carried out arrests in Gaza’s largest functioning hospital, health officials and the military said on Saturday, as airstrikes hit across the enclave and rain battered Palestinians taking shelter in Rafah. Israeli forces raided the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Thursday as they pressed […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Israeli forces carried out arrests in Gaza’s largest functioning hospital, health officials and the military said on Saturday, as airstrikes hit across the enclave and rain battered Palestinians taking shelter in Rafah. Israeli forces raided the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Thursday as […]
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel in response to deadly airstrikes that Lebanon state media reported has now killed 10 people, according to reports. The pledge comes after Lebanese strikes killed an Israeli soldier Wednesday, prompting Israel to respond with its own deadly counterstrikes, which hit the city of Nabatiyeh and a village in […]
The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese state media reported on Thursday, making the previous day the deadliest one in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate for the strikes, which hit in the city of Nabatiyeh and […]
Jerusalem — The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of strikes in Lebanon,” raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire and increasing tension fueled by the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military gave no further details on the airstrikes, […]
Over the past 24 hours, the Russians launched 5 missile strikes and 71 airstrikes, and fired 45 times from multiple-launch rocket systems on Ukrainian positions and populated areas. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 12 February Quote: “Over the course of the day, Ukraine struck 13 areas where enemy personnel, weapons […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military conducted new airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Friday. American forces destroyed four explosive-loaded drone boats and seven mobile anti-ship cruise missile launchers Thursday that could target vessels in the Red Sea, the U.S. military’s Central Command said. “They presented an imminent threat to U.S. […]
WASHINGTON — Despite large-scale U.S. airstrikes against Iranian-backed militants across the Middle East, Iran is continuing to provide weapons and intelligence to its proxies, according to three U.S. officials, a Middle Eastern official and a congressional aide with knowledge of the matter. Iran’s flow of arms and intelligence to its surrogates across the Middle East, […]
WASHINGTON — In the hours before the United States carried out strikes against Iran-backed militants on Friday, the U.S. hit Iran with more familiar weapons: sanctions and criminal charges. The Biden administration imposed sanctions on officers and officials of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the country’s premier military force, for threatening the integrity of water utilities and […]