Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew ceasefire and create a number of pilot security zones inside Lebanon from which Hezbollah militants would be banned.
In a joint statement released after a fourth round of US-mediated talks at the State Department, the two sides said the ceasefire is contingent on...
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution that seeks to halt President Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran. The 215-208 vote was successful after four Republicans joined Democrats in a rare public show of disapproval of the war, which began in February. This is the...
Kuwait briefly shut the country’s main airport today after Iranian drones heavily damaged it and killed one person – the latest salvo in a series of back-and-forth attacks by Tehran and Washington that have tested a fragile ceasefire.
The strikes came as semiofficial Iranian news agencies said the country had...
World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains ahead of efforts to contain it. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the virus had gained a big head-start and that health authorities were still catching...
The United Nations has warned that its development coordination system is under severe financial pressure even as global demand for support continues to rise, urging urgent reforms under its new “UN80 Initiative” to strengthen delivery across countries.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told an ECOSOC meeting in New York that...
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing 21 civilians and wounding more than 100 others. Loud explosions rocked Kyiv, as residents sheltered in basements, corridors and metro stations. Black smoke billowed above the city.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said civilian...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, US has seen no evidence of China providing military assistance to Iran during the ongoing regional crisis, while urging Beijing to support international efforts aimed at restoring freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
Rubio’s said this during a House Appropriations...
The US military has said that Iranian missiles fired toward Kuwait and Bahrain either failed to reach their targets or were intercepted. It also said the United States carried out strikes on an Iranian facility in response. According to the US Central Command, the strikes targeted an Iranian military...
Iran launched a major missile and drone attack on US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait on Tuesday after American forces struck what Washington described as an Iranian military facility, sharply escalating tensions and raising fresh concerns over the future of a fragile regional ceasefire.
According to US Central Command, the...
Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including a father and his son and daughter, a day after US President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting.
Israel threatened on Monday to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs, causing panic in the Lebanese capital...
