‘My son is on the bulldozer’

Palestinian woman Reem Zidan had been searching for her son for months, and finally found his body on Wednesday as a bulldozer unearthed human remains outside a Gaza hospital.
25 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel intensifies strikes on northern Gaza

Some Palestinian civilians were fleeing their homes in northern Gaza yesterday just weeks after returning because of an Israeli bombardment which they said was as intense as at the start of the offensive.
24 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Iran cuts Syria presence after strikes blamed on Israel

Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes blamed on Israel, a source close to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and a war monitor said yesterday.
24 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Gaza protests grow at US colleges

Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.
24 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli army strikes 40 Hezbollah targets

The Israeli army said yesterday it struck 40 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon as near-daily exchanges of fire rage on the border between the two countries.
24 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Gaza could surpass famine thresholds in 6 weeks: WFP

The Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme said yesterday.
24 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israeli Strikes: ‘We feel the need to raise the alarm’

UN rights chief Volker Turk said yesterday that he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson.
23 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Hezbollah launches deepest strike into Israel

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said yesterday it had launched a drone attack against Israeli military bases north of the city of Acre, in its deepest strike into Israeli territory since the Gaza offensive began.
23 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Tensions flare at several US univs over Gaza protests

Tensions flared between pro-Palestinian student protesters and school administrators at several US universities Monday, as in-person classes were cancelled and demonstrators arrested.
23 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel carries out heavy shelling in Gaza

Gaza was hit by heavy Israeli shelling yesterday, with strikes reported in several areas in the centre and south of the besieged territory, as Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed “painful blows” on Hamas to free hostages.
22 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Egypt reclaims 3,400-yr-old stolen statue of Ramses II

Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country’s antiquities ministry said on Sunday.
22 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Drone, rocket attacks targeted US forces in Iraq

US forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and US officials told Reuters yesterday, the first reported after a near three-month pause.
22 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Hezbollah downs Israeli drone

Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone that was on a combat mission in southern Lebanon.
22 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel bombards Rafah after US ‘green light’

Israel carried out deadly strikes in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, first responders in the Palestinian territory said yesterday, as violence flared in the occupied West Bank.
21 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Iran’s Khamenei praises ‘success’ of military

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised the country’s armed forces for their “success” in his first public comments since Tehran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel last week.
21 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel holds Palestinian economy captive: analysts

The Gaza offensive is speeding up Israel’s “annexation” of the Palestinian economy, say analysts, who argue it has been hobbled for decades by agreements that followed the Oslo peace accords.
21 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Iran, Israel ‘pull back’ from brink of war

Iran has dismissed as akin to child’s play Israel’s reported retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides yesterday appeared to step back from wider conflict stemming from the war in Gaza.
20 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Blast hits Iraq base housing pro-Iranian armed groups

One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday.
20 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Israel kills ‘10 militants’ in West Bank

The Israeli army yesterday said troops had killed 10 militants in an ongoing raid around Nur Shams, a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank.
20 April 2024, 18:00 PM

Lacking storm drains, Dubai sees persistent flooding

When record downpours sent water flooding into his Dubai home, Riaz Haq expected the levels to drop once it stopped raining. But instead of falling, the water kept rising higher
20 April 2024, 05:17 AM