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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – Palestinian medical officials said at least 16 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight and on Sunday. At least six people, including four children, were killed in an attack on a school housing displaced people in Gaza City, according to Civil Defense, a Hamas-run government-affiliated first…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Two US Navy pilots were shot dead in an apparent “friendly fire” incident over the Red Sea on Sunday, the US military said, marking the first time in more than a year that US troops have been targeted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. This is the most serious incident of bullying….
Syria’s new rulers have appointed a foreign minister as they seek to build international ties, two weeks after Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power, the official Syrian News Agency, or SANA, said on Saturday. SANA said the ruling General Command had named Assad Hassan al-Shibani as foreign minister. A source in the new administration told…
Washington – The United States has charged a Russian-Israeli dual citizen over alleged involvement with the Lockbit ransomware group, the Justice Department said Friday. Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel in August and is awaiting extradition to the United States, the department said. Panev was a developer at Lockbit from its founding in 2019…
Israel’s military said on Thursday it carried out airstrikes on Houthi terrorist targets in Yemen. A military spokesman said the strikes targeted energy and port infrastructure used by the Houthis as part of their “military action”. Houthi-run media reported attacks in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the Red Sea port city of Hodeida and said…
Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the value of the Syrian currency increased against the US dollar, but commodity prices remain high. Residents say that traders are taking advantage of the situation and official monitoring bodies are not stopping it properly. Click here to see the full story in Kurdish. Source link
Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, military rebels and Israeli forces have targeted strongholds across the country. For this story narrated by Veronica Villafane, VOA’s Joan Cabezas Vega visited Katana, Syria, a military base just outside the capital. Source link
Washington— The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been detained in Syria for more than 12 years, reiterated on Monday her call for the Israeli military to stop attacks on the part of Syria where her son may be being held. “I think it would at least be polite to say that when…
Gaza’s health ministry said on Monday that more than 45,000 people had been killed in Israeli strikes against Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory. The ministry said about 107,000 people have also been injured in the conflict. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but has previously said that more than…
