Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 16 civilians and wounding more than 100 others. Ukrainian authorities today said the damage trapped some people under the rubble of apartment buildings. Officials said, emergency crews digging through the...
US President Donald Trump has said that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with the Lebanon-based militant group through mediators.
Trump announced the development in a social media post following his call with Netanyahu. Following...
Iran has warned that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon could threaten Tehran’s ceasefire with the US, after Israel’s prime minister ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the agreement with the US was unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed responsibility for targeting the Panama-flagged container ship MSC Sariska V with a cruise missile, saying the strike was retaliation for an earlier attack on an Iranian vessel near Oman.
The claim came after a cargo ship was hit by an explosion yesterday...
Japan on Sunday dismissed China’s charge of “new militarism”, with Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi questioning Beijing’s own military expansion, including its nuclear arsenal, strategic bombers and rising defence spending.
Addressing the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, Koizumi defended Japan’s ongoing defence modernisation and stressed that Tokyo remained committed to...
Israeli military has captured the strategic Beaufort Castle site in southern Lebanon. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said the site was taken after troops entered the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi al-Saluki areas. It added that the operation aims to establish operational control over the region and degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities.
Israeli Prime...
The United States and Iran exchanged military strikes over the weekend near the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz, marking a sharp escalation in hostilities between the two countries.
The US Central Command confirmed it carried out what it described as self-defence strikes on Iranian radar and drone command-and-control sites in...
The Trump administration has extended deportation protections for around 11,000 Lebanese nationals in the United States, allowing them to live and work in the country for another six months. The decision was announced by the Department of Homeland Security.
The extension comes amid continuing clashes in southern Lebanon between Israeli...
Russian officials have said that overnight Ukrainian drone strikes sparked fires at several oil facilities in Russia. Officials in Russia’s Rostov region said that falling drone debris caused a fire, damaging an oil depot and a tanker at the port city of Taganrog.
In the neighbouring Krasnodar region, authorities reported...
U.S. President Donald Trump held a two-hour meeting with his top advisers at the White House to discuss the possibility of a deal with Iran aimed at extending the ceasefire. The meeting, held in the Situation Room, ended without any clarity on the next course of action.
Ahead of the...
