An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, officials said Tuesday, as Palestinians fled Israel’s assault. Some said they had hardly eaten, with aid cut off for weeks to the most isolated and heavily destroyed part of the territory.
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.
Pakistan’s parliament has passed legislation to extend the tenures of military chiefs from three to five years. The move came over the objections of opposition lawmakers who say the legislation was passed in haste without hearing them.
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 Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza as a 30-day deadline looms for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements or risk potential restrictions on military assistance.
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.
The 13-month war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said on Monday, more than double the number of people killed since their last major war two decades ago.
An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained by Iran for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to retaliate over an Israeli attack on the country.
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 president of Cyprus said Sunday his administration is committed to expanding defense and security cooperation with the U.S., as his meeting with American President Joe Biden last week charted a course for the “next ambitious steps” in bilateral relations that are currently at a “historic high.”
The Israeli military said Sunday it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks. It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts said in a new report.
An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as Gaza cease-fire talks ground to a halt.
The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks. Beleaguered staff inside struggle to treat waves of wounded, while haunted by Israeli military raids conducted against them late last year.
Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke Saturday as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel.
Satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts show extensive destruction in 11 villages in southern Lebanon located immediately next to the border with Israel. Some experts suggest Israel is aiming to create a depopulated buffer zone, a strategy it has already deployed along its border with Gaza.
Hezbollah said Saturday that it had used missiles and drones to target military and intelligence facilities. 11 people were hurt in a direct strike on a building in Tira, a predominantly Israeli Arab town. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and Gaza killed scores of people.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending bomber aircraft, fighter jets and more Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday, as an aircraft carrier and its ships are preparing to leave.
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.