Israel’s Minister of Defence Israel Katz has for the first time publicly acknowledged that Tel Aviv assassinated Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Israel has reportedly informed Syria’s new administration that its soldiers will remain stationed in the so-called “buffer zone” within the occupied Syrian Golan Heights for now.
North Korea is preparing to deploy additional troops, weapons and other military equipment, including drones, to aid Russia in its full-scale war against Ukraine, the South Korean military has claimed.
Moscow’s threat to Europe extends beyond defense to illegal immigration and cybersecurity, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warned during an international meeting in Finland.
US President-elect Donald Trump has sent a message to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, asking him to start thinking about a ceasefire and to abandon the territories that are currently under Russian control, El Pais newspaper reported.
Ankara has called for the anti-Syria sanctions to be lifted "as soon as possible" as Turkey's foreign minister visited Damascus for talks with the new Syrian rulers.
The Houthis in Yemen have claimed that they have successfully thwarted a joint American-British attack by shooting down a US F-18 warplane and forcing other aircraft to withdraw from their country's airspace.
Israel has violated all the rules of war in the besieged Gaza Strip, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has stated.
Doha will stop gas shipments to the EU if member states enforce new legislation on carbon emissions, Qatar’s energy minister Saad al-Kaabi has told the Financial Times (FT). Qatar has become an important supplier to the bloc after Brussels resolved to wean itself off Russian gas following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
At least 15,000 British soldiers left the country's Armed Forces between November 2023 and October 2024, The Telegraph reported. The resignations persist despite London's efforts to address the recruitment crisis with a record pay raise.
Journalists have identified the names of 84,761 Russian soldiers who died during the war in Ukraine, according to a joint investigation by BBC Russia and Mediazona news outlet.
The United States Navy has inadvertently shot down its own F/A-18 fighter jet in a friendly fire incident over the Red Sea, the Pentagon has announced shortly after issuing a press release about another attack against Houthi targets in Yemen.
China’s Defense Ministry has accused the Pentagon of fabricating false narratives and twisting reality in order to deceive the public with incorrect perceptions, in its latest annual report on Beijing's military and security developments.
The possibility of reaching an agreement to end the war in the besieged Gaza Strip “is closer than ever, provided Israel refrains from imposing new conditions”, Hamas has announced in s statement.
The United States military said it has carried out air strikes against targets linked to the Houthis in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, including a missile storage facility and a “command-and-control” site.
Syria’s new rulers have appointed foreign and defense ministers, the official news agency SANA has reported, as they work to establish international relations following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.
Iranian nationals Mohammad Abedini and Mehdi Mohammad Sadeghi have been arrested in Milan and Massachusetts respectively on charges of aiding in the equipping of drones used in an attack on American soldiers, an allegation that Iran strongly denies.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed gratitude to Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian in a letter, thanking him for Tehran's support for Baku in its bid to join the D-8 group of countries.
More than 12,300 civilian deaths have been recorded in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Izumi Nakamitsu announced during a UN Security Council meeting.
Gaza's Civil Defense reported on Saturday that Israeli troops are killing Palestinians and leaving their bodies in the streets of the besieged enclave, where stray dogs feed on them, describing it as a clear violation of international law.
Western European leaders are exploring the possibility of deploying troops to Ukraine as part of a possible ceasefire agreement with Russia, The Washington Post has reported. The discussions, which are reportedly at an early stage, come as NATO members consider measures to provide Kiev with leverage in potential negotiations to end the ongoing war with Moscow.
