The US military and Yemen’s Houthi rebels have engaged in conflicting claims of successful strikes, heightening tensions in their ongoing conflict over Red Sea shipping lanes. The recent exchanges involved a US airstrike targeting a Houthi missile in Yemen, reportedly set to launch. In response, the Houthis claimed an “accurate and direct” missile strike against a cargo ship in the... 

Arab and Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, and Jordan, jointly condemn the Israeli airstrikes on the headquarters of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza. The Qatari Foreign Ministry denounces the Israeli bombing as “blatant aggression” and an extension of their policy targeting civilians, hospitals, and refugee shelters. Saudi Arabia’s... 

Israeli military says it destroyed an unidentified ‘aerial target’ and separately intercepted surface-to-surface missile over the Red Sea. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they launched a “large number” of ballistic missiles and drones towards Israel and warned of more attacks to come. Israel earlier said it destroyed an unidentified “aerial target” over the Red Sea on Tuesday morning. “There... 

A deadly Israeli airstrike targeted the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza on Tuesday, claiming the life of a high-ranking Hamas leader involved in the October 7 terror attacks that marked the beginning of the recent intense conflict. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that the strike successfully eliminated Ibrahim Biari, one of the key figures behind the October attacks, along with other militants. The... 

At least 2,000 children have died in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza over the past 17 days, UK-based aid group Save the Children has said. The charity cited figures from the Hamas-operated Health Ministry in Gaza, which stated on Monday that at least 5,087 people have been killed in Israel’s siege of the enclave, including at least 2,055 children. “Thousands of homes, and dozens of playgrounds,... 

Horrific reports of a mass casualty bombing are emerging from Gaza, where a hospital suffered direct hit reportedly by Israeli airstrikes. Gaza’s health ministry has said there are at least 500 casualties in the aftermath of the hospital blast, with “hundreds of victims” buried under the rubble. Gaza sources also say that a UN-run school housing refugees was attacked. Initially, local emergency... 

The Azerbaijani military has violated the November 2020 ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, launching airstrikes against the forces of the breakaway region, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday. The region, which is currently patrolled by Russian peacekeepers, is internationally recognized as a part of Azerbaijan, yet it is predominantly populated by ethnic Armenians. Over the past two days,... 

The Israeli military conducted a new series of air raids on Gaza after Israel’s defense minister expressed gratitude to the US for blocking a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire for the third time in a row. Israeli warplanes pummeled the Palestinian enclave overnight on Monday, local media reported. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) hit buildings near Al-Qatiba Square in the western part of Gaza,... 

Humanity should take “swift” action to resist Israel’s “aggression”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said as Ankara reported that Turkish news agency journalists and UN-backed schools were hit by Israeli strikes in Gaza. “This terrorist state that tries to plunder a city like Jerusalem, which houses places that are holy for Muslims, Christians and Jews, has crossed all limits,”... 

President Donald Trump has called on ‘millions’ of people in Iraq to resist Iran, as the fallout over US airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia brings Washington and Tehran one step closer to proxy war. “To those many millions of people in Iraq who want freedom and who don’t want to be dominated and controlled by Iran, this is your time!,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, the... 

The statement comes amid an escalation on the Gaza border after Hamas launched several attacks against Israel, while the IDF responded with airstrikes against the militants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday morning that war against armed groups in the Gaza Strip could break out at any moment, even before the upcoming Knesset elections. “An operation in Gaza could happen... 

Powerful explosions have been heard in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo provinces, the Syrian state news agency reports. The state media says military bases there were hit by rockets launched by an unspecified enemy. ​According to a Haaretz report, Israel is responsible for the attack. The alleged attacks were reported by Syria’s Sana news agency on Sunday evening. Citing a military source,... 

Both the American and Turkish air forces halted their strikes on Syrian territory around the time Russia deployed S-400 air defense complexes at the Khmeimim airbase, from which it stages its own incursions against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). A spokesperson of the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) told Sputnik on Friday that the absence of anti-IS coalition... 

Saudi warplanes have continued their airstrikes against areas across Yemen, killing at least 115 people in the northwestern province of al-Hudaydah. According to reports, the people were killed on Friday after the Saudi fighter jets pounded a number of islands, including Uqban and Kamaran, in the Red Sea. The Saudi warplanes reportedly launched over 20 sorties on the islands. It was also said that... 

Smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani after a US airstrikes targets ISIL terrorists there. The United States and its so-called coalition partners have conducted at least three airstrikes in Syria and 11 in Iraq, the Pentagon says. According to US military officials, the attacks targeted Daesh (ISIL) terrorists and were carried out on Monday, a day after Washington air-dropped tons of weapons to...