The two top US generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the administration of President Joe Biden for the chaotic departure, telling American lawmakers that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to call off a major ground offensive against the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, shrugging off a US warning that the operation will kill more civilians and worsen a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.
Yemen has slammed the United Nations Security Council for condemning its pro-Palestine maritime operations in the Red Sea, saying that the world body is “dangerously” serving US interests and supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The “painful and slow death" of 23 children in the north of Gaza due to malnutrition and dehydration "would be the tip of the iceberg" as only those who reached hospitals are reported, UNICEF’s deputy executive director Ted Chaiban has warned.
Iran has lashed out at the United States and Britain for levelling groundless allegations against Tehran with regards to the status of the Red Sea and Yemen.
The White House knew since late October that Israel was regularly bombing civilian targets in Gaza, but President Joe Biden continued to publicly defend the Israeli military’s conduct, the Washington Post has reported.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has labeled the latest report on food insecurity in Gaza as an "appalling indictment" of the conditions faced by civilians in the region.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has become the first government official outside Israel to confirm reports that Tel Aviv has killed Marwan Issa, the third-highest-ranking military commander of Hamas.
US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that a major ground offensive in Gaza's Rafah would be a "mistake", as the two leaders spoke on the phone for the first time in a month amid growing tensions.
Half of the population in the Gaza Strip are experiencing "catastrophic" hunger, with famine projected to hit the north of the territory by May unless there is urgent intervention, a United Nations-backed food security assessment warned.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has reported the Palestinian unemployment rate is set to soar to a staggering 57 percent in the first quarter of 2024, citing 507,000 job losses due to the Gaza war.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned as “barbaric” Israel’s new attack on and the occupation of Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, and the “crimes of the Israeli forces” against the medical staff, patients and the wounded at the hospital.
Israel’s military forces have stormed al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza City with tanks and heavy gunfire, leaving several deaths and injuries, Palestinian officials have confirmed.
US President Joe Biden began to shout and swear after learning that his poll numbers in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia had dropped over his handling of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, according to NBC News.
The Palestinian movement Hamas says Israel has come to face an “extensive front” far greater than the Gaza Strip and that the field battle is not confined to the besieged enclave.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU does not want to see an Israeli invasion of Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
Israel has killed more than 13,000 children in the Gaza Strip since October 7 while others are suffering from severe malnutrition and do not “even have the energy to cry”, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported.
A military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, will take "several weeks", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, adding he will push ahead with an offensive that has sparked international alarm and outrage.
A senior Hamas official has stated the Palestinian group has put forward a “realistic” ceasefire proposal in the Gaza Strip that involves the release of Israeli captives and the withdrawal of "occupation soldiers" from the besieged enclave.
The situation in the Gaza Strip is “catastrophic and deteriorates by the minute”, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned. It added one in three children under the age of two in northern Gaza are now acutely malnourished.
Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has stated that Tehran is prepared to utilize its full capabilities to assist Damascus in boosting its defense and deterrent power against Washington and the Zionist regime.
The United States and the United Kingdom have launched a string of air raids against targets in Yemen's southwestern province of Ta'izz and the strategic western province of Hudaydah as the Houthi movement continues its maritime operations against Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea.
