The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Tuesday he’s hopeful that meetings this week with Iranian officials, including the country’s new president, can lead to a breakthrough in monitoring the country’s nuclear program.
United Nations peacekeepers warned Tuesday that the Israeli military has committed “severe violations” of a cease-fire deal with Syria as its military continues a major construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut’s southern suburbs and killed 33 people elsewhere in the country on Tuesday.
The attack comes as the rebels continue their monthslong assault targeting shipping through a waterway that typically sees $1 trillion in goods pass through it a year over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon.
The U.S. struck nine targets at two locations in Syria on Monday to hit Iranian-aligned militias that had launched attacks on U.S. personnel over the last 24 hours, U.S. Central Command said.
Israel said headway was being made in U.S.-mediated efforts to achieve a cease-fire in Lebanon, but that it still needed guarantees on resuming military operations if there are any infractions by Hezbollah.
Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier, satellite photos show.
For the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan sent a delegation to the United Nations climate talks in a bid to garner help in dealing with global warming.
The U.N. children’s agency on Monday warned that the health of 11 million children in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is in danger because of air pollution that experts say has become a fifth season in recent years.
Israel has intensified bombardment in Lebanon since Sept.23, vowing to cripple militant group Hezbollah. But the strikes have increasingly hit homes and residential areas, where Israel says Hezbollah is hiding its capabilities. Children are caught in the midst.
An Israeli official familiar with the thinking inside the nation’s security cabinet said the handover period in the U.S. could provide Israel with a window in which to attack against Iran’s nuclear program, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considers to be an existential danger.
The meeting indicates India’s intention to build ties with the Taliban administration that received military and logistical support from Pakistan during the war against the U.S. forces. Taliban relations with Pakistan have since eroded after claims that the Taliban gave refuge to anti-Pakistan militant groups.
A U.S. soldier critically injured earlier this year while assigned to the Pentagon’s humanitarian aid operation off the coast of Gaza has died.
A group of progressive House lawmakers is questioning the involvement of the U.S. military in the expanding conflict in the Middle East, arguing the deployment of American troops to Israel and other support violated constitutional law.
The military assets are moving to the Middle East after Austin on Friday ordered several B-52s, a squadron of fighter jets, tanker aircraft and Navy destroyers to deploy to the region. The other ships and planes will arrive in the coming months as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln ends its deployment there.
For two weeks in late July and early August, said Mohammed Saad, 20, he and two other Palestinian men were forced by an Israeli army unit in Gaza to enter buildings feared to contain explosives and photograph every inch before troops were given the all clear to enter. When the soldiers were done with him, he said, someone shot him in the back.
The Pentagon’s top general in the Middle East is being investigated over a claim that he shoved a subordinate during a heated exchange on a recent flight to Israel, an official said Friday.
U.S. forces in the Middle East killed as many as 35 Islamic State group militants in a series of strikes in Syria this week, according to U.S. Central Command.
Israel is considering a U.S.-led deal to end the conflict in Lebanon and move Hezbollah fighters away from the Israeli border, after assessing the militant group’s rocket arsenal has been mostly expended or destroyed.