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Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Friday said he ordered the Israeli army to seize parts of Gaza unless Hamas releases the Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory. Displaced Palestinians set up a camp in a garbage dump in the Yarmouk area after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for the northern areas […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for moving Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials told The Associated Press. The contacts with Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia […]

Thousands of Syrians have reportedly crossed into northern Lebanon from coastal Syria in recent days fleeing violent clashes and attacks which have seen hundreds of civilians killed.   Syria’s interim government says it is battling pro-Assad insurgents in the country’s Latakia region [Mohamad Daboul/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty] Akkar, Lebanon’s northernmost governorate bordering Syria, has […]

U.N. experts voiced alarm Thursday over Israel’s recent decision to halt all humanitarian aid into Gaza, condemning the move as “weaponizing starvation.” Palestinian children queue at a charity kitchen ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, near building rubble at the Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine, March 5, […]

Israel halted the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday, intensifying a standoff over the six-week truce, while Hamas urged Egyptian and Qatari mediators to step in. Palestinian children seen under Ramadan decorations next to their destroyed homes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Feb. 28, 2025. (EPA Photo) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Puntland, Somalia U.S. airstrikes killed 16 militants affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group in northern Somalia, officials there said Monday. A spokesperson for security operations in the Puntland region, Brigadier General Mohamud Mohamed Ahmed, disclosed the death toll in an interview VOA’s Somali Service. “The strike carried out by our international security partners killed […]

Saudi Arabia will host a summit on Feb. 20 with leaders from four Arab nations to discuss President Donald Trump’s proposal for U.S. annexation of Gaza, a source familiar with the plans said Friday. Arab foreign ministers meet at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP File Photo) The leaders […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s Conservative leader used a rally in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a message to Donald Trump. “Let me be clear: We will never be the 51st state,” said Pierre Poilievre, warning that he is prepared to defend Canadians against the president at all costs. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, held […]

France is discussing holding an informal emergency Ukraine summit in Paris with European countries on Monday. European leaders are set to convene in Paris for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine as the US moves forward with Russia peace talks without European involvement. Copyright Matthias Schrader/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.  Though […]