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The plan aims to end fighting between Hezbollah and Israel at the border. The hostilities have run in parallel to the Gaza war and are fueling concern of a ruinous, all-out confrontation. HEZBOLLAH MEMBERS take part in a military exercise during a media tour organized for the occasion of Resistance and Liberation Day, in Aaramta, […]

The US, Egypt, Israel and Qatar are expected to meet in Cairo on Tuesday to work on a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas which would bring a six-week pause in the fighting. Speaking after talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House Monday, US President Joe Biden said: “A major military operation […]

Nearly 100 Palestinians were killed overnight in southern Gaza’s Rafah city Monday, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, as Israel carried out a series of airstrikes during an operation to rescue two captives. Wounded Palestinian girl Somay al-Najar (L) comforts her brother Yamen following Israeli bombardments over Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Feb. 12, 2024. […]

Israeli forces rescued two hostages early Monday, storming a heavily guarded apartment in the Gaza Strip and extracting the captives under fire in a dramatic raid that was a small but symbolically significant success for Israel. Palestinians inspect the damage amid the rubble of a building where two hostages were reportedly held before being rescued during an […]

Moscow could ‘do whatever the hell they want’ with members of the US military alliance that didn’t meet spending targets, warned the Republican front-runner. Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would “encourage” Russia to attack NATO members that failed to pay their bills as part of the US-led military alliance. Speaking at a rally, […]

Emergency medical personnel who volunteered to work at the European hospital near Khan Younis tell FRANCE 24 of the dire conditions at one of Gaza’s last functioning medical facilities, where overwhelmed staff grapple with an acute shortage of medicine and have to make agonising choices over which critically injured patients to treat. A man sits […]

On January 23, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke to Al Jazeera and warned that Ethiopia should not attempt to fulfil a controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland on New Year’s Day. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attend the signing of a memorandum of […]

U.S. President Joe Biden launched Thursday an apparent rebuke of Israel’s military response in the Gaza Strip calling it “over the top” and demanding it has “got to stop.” A Palestinian man searches for bodies and survivors among the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, Deir Al Balah, Gaza, Palestine, Feb. 2024. […]

Deadly Israeli strikes on Rafah Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in Rafah early on Saturday. The attacks came hours after Israel’s prime minister said he had asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from the southern Gaza city ahead of a ground invasion. Benjamin Netanyahu did […]

The strikes on Saturday against the Houthis were launched by US warships and American and British fighter jets. The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of […]