Israel says its military has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian group has not commented on the announcement yet.

The United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced that “nearly 100 percent” of Gaza’s population has been thrust into poverty with a ruined economy and “staggering” unemployment after more than a year of Israel's war on the besieged strip.

A “new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Syria”, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned Thursday, as the Israel-Hezbollah war forces tens of thousands of people to flee Lebanon, many to its war-torn neighbor.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi met on Thursday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo. The two sides warned against further regional escalation amid Israel's attacks against the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, stressing an urgent need to stop Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

There have been no negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire agreement for almost a month, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told reporters in Brussels.

The risk of cholera spreading in Lebanon is “very high”, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, after a case of the deadly disease was detected in the country’s north.

Dozens of aid groups have warned that “northern Gaza Strip is being wiped off the map” by Israeli soldiers amid an ongoing campaign to ethnically cleanse the area of its Palestinian population.

Israeli troops fired at a United Nations peacekeeping position in the village of Kfar Kela in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, damaging a watchtower, according to the UN.

Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has dismissed Israeli threats against the country's nuclear facilities, assuring the public that Tehran is prepared for any scenario.

The United States has unveiled a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $425 million, and promised more support in the future.

Britain is considering sanctioning Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over comments they made about civilians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank settlers, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stated.

The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that Iran staged Operation True Promise II against Israeli military and intelligence sites earlier this month merely as a warning on smallest scale.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei condemned the statement from the European Union and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council summit meeting, reaffirming Iran's commitment to peaceful nuclear activities and rejecting the allegations as baseless.

The US targeted five “hardened underground weapons storage locations” in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in a series of strikes by B-2 stealth bombers, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

Iran’s ambassador to Kabul has denied reports that dozens of Afghan nationals have been shot and killed by Iranian border guards while trying to sneak into the Iranian territory illegally.

Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman has deplored the double standards adopted by Western countries regarding Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

A French non-governmental organization has filed a complaint against President Emmanuel Macron at the United Nations top court for complicity in Israel's "war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide" in the Gaza Strip.

Italy has imposed the strictest restrictions on weapons exports to Israel among its allies, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated.

United Nations agencies have urged an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its attacks against the Middle Eastern country.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh has downplayed the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) air defense system to Israel as part of a “psychological war”.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned Hungary’s ambassador, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, to convey the Islamic Republic’s protest against the new sanctions imposed by the EU on Iranian individuals and entities.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi has told the United Nations chief Antonio Guterres that Tehran is ready for a "decisive and regretful" response in cases of any Israeli adventurism against the Islamic Republic.

The UK Foreign Office has imposed sanctions against seven organisations that support illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but held back from penalising two extremist members of the Israeli government as the former foreign secretary David Cameron had been planning.

The Joe Biden administration has told Israel to take immediate measures to address the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip or risk cutting off access to key US military assistance.

Iran’s Vice-President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, addressed recent calls from some members of Iran’s Parliament to revise the country’s defense doctrine in order to maintain deterrence in the region.