NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops carried out an airstrike in the northern West Bank on Sunday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding five other people, Palestinian health officials said. The strike took place in Nur Shams, an urban refugee camp that has been a frequent target of the Israeli military […]
The Israeli military released photos on Thursday that it says show a staffer with the aid group Doctors Without Borders wearing military fatigues at a gathering of Gaza militants. The military says that Fadi al-Wadiya, who was killed in an airstrike earlier this week, was a “significant operative” in the Islamic Jihad group and was […]
The death toll in an attack by Islamic militants in the Dagestan region of southern Russia has risen to 21 after an injured police officer died in hospital, officials said on Tuesday. The militants attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship and fired at police in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the predominantly […]
June 11 (UPI) — The U.N. Human Rights Office said Tuesday that Israel’s hostage rescue operation in Gaza may have been indiscriminate, disproportionate and negligent in a such densely populated area, potentially constituting a war crime. Expressing profound shock at the reported deaths and wounding of hundreds of Palestinians in Saturday’s operation in Nuseirat to […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces killed an Abu Sayyaf militant, who had been implicated in past beheadings, including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese, in a clash in the south, police officials said Friday. Philippine police, backed by military intelligence agents, killed Nawapi Abdulsaid in a brief gunbattle Wednesday night in the […]
BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border said Tuesday that the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups. The Secretary-General of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, Sheikh Mohammed Takkoush said […]
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) – Daniela Klette, a member of Germany’s notorious Red Army Fraction (RAF) militant group who was arrested last week, made an initial appearance on Thursday at the country’s Federal Court of Justice, a spokesperson for the Attorney General said. Klette was detained in Berlin after three decades on the run, and is […]
A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said. Prosecutors in the northern town of Verden confirmed the arrest of Daniela Klette, 65. The Bild daily, which cited unidentified security sources, reported that she was arrested in Berlin on […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 23 (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Friday it had targeted a militant from the Islamic Jihad group in an air strike in the occupied West Bank who was on his way to carry out an attack. The Palestinian news agency WAFA said a 17-year-old was also killed in the strike late […]
Pakistan’s military said it carried out a series of “highly co-ordinated” military strikes on militant groups in Iran on Thursday. “A number of terrorists were killed during the intelligence-based operation,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. Iranian media reported several explosions and said three women and four children, all of whom were foreign nationals, […]
JERSUALEM (AP) — Iran launched attacks Tuesday in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, state media reported, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Confusion followed the announcements as some of the reports soon disappeared. However, […]
The US is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold “at least a few” hostages seized during their bloody October 7 attack and to house command infrastructure, according to an American intelligence assessment declassified on Tuesday and shared by a US official. The assessment offers the firmest US support for Israeli […]