Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has called Armenia effectively a "fascist state", claiming that Baku might have no other choice but to "destroy" its neighbor's so-called "fascist ideology".
The office of the Italian prime minister announced Italian journalist Ms. Cecilia Sala detained for several days in Iran has been released an is en route to Italy.
A draft resolution to recognize Russia’s war against Ukraine as genocidal was among the first bills submitted to the new US Congress, according to the Congress’ website.
US President-elect Donald Trump has stated that NATO members should spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defence, a significant increase from the current 2% target.
Steve Witkoff, US President-elect Donald Trump's appointee as Middle East envoy, stated that "a lot of progress" has been made in the ongoing talks regarding a Gaza ceasefire agreement.
US President Joe Biden’s administration has been in talks with the Taliban since at least July to exchange detained Americans in Afghanistan for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
More than 12,000 structures have been demolished by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since 2009, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The Lebanese Army has announced that it has begun deploying in five towns across the Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts in southern Lebanon following the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers.
The United States plans to divert to Lebanon $95 million in military assistance that was originally allocated to Egypt, according to a report by Reuters news agency.
The Donald Trump administration's Ukraine peace envoy, Keith Kellogg, has postponed a visit to Kyiv until after the president-elect is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Reuters reported, citing four sources with knowledge of the trip.
Ukrainian soldiers repelled 94 Russian ground attacks in Russia's Kursk Oblast over the past day, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces has reported amid escalating hostilities in the region.
The United States has transferred 11 detainees out of Guantánamo Bay to Oman, the latest batch of inmates to leave the infamous facility in Cuba that once held around 780 detainees.
US envoy Amos Hochstein has stated that the Israeli army will continue withdrawing from all Lebanese territories even though the mission is complex and challenging, avoiding direct comment on Tel Aviv's possible extended presence in southern Lebanon beyond a 60-day cease-fire period.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree has stated that the Yemen-based group’s armed forces launched a “specific and joint military operation targeting the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman using two winged missiles and four drones”.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that the military operations against Daesh in Iraq in the last seven days have left a coalition member dead.
Turkey has stressed that it is “only a matter of time” before Kurdish-led armed groups in Syria are wiped out, and that Ankara will not agree to any situation allowing the Kurdish militants to maintain a presence there after the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Magistrate Court of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has ordered the shutting down of several Al Jazeera websites for four months – the latest restriction by the Palestinian Authority (PA) on the Qatari-based network.
French President Emmanuel Macron has raised concern over Tehran’s nuclear programme, describing Iran as the main “strategic and security challenge” for Europeans in the Middle East.
The United Nations has expressed grave concern after the death of a one-month-old baby in Gaza due to hypothermia, marking the eighth such a fatality in less than three weeks.
The Israeli army has warned its personnel traveling abroad that they risk arrest after one army soldier fled Brazil while being investigated for possible war crimes in the Gaza Strip, local media has reported.
