More than 200 staff members of EU institutions and agencies have signed a letter expressing “growing concern” over the union’s response to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. They have argued that it runs contrary to its core values and the aim of promoting peace.
The property of US-linked entities will be held liable for any confiscation of Russian assets by the US government, according to a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
Calls by American lawmakers to allow Ukraine to use foreign-made weapons against targets deep in Russian territory play into Kiev’s hands, as they encourage a direct clash between Moscow and NATO, Russis’s Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has warned.
Western officials have warned of an “economic catastrophe” in the occupied West Bank if Israel does not renew a banking waiver vital to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Financial Times has reported.
Only 30 to 35 percent of Hamas fighters have been killed after more than seven months of Israel's military operations against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, US intelligence sources told Politico.
Moscow has castigated the decision by the EU to use income from frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine as expropriation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed Ireland, Norway and Spain's decision to recognize a Palestinian state, calling on other countries to follow their lead.
A top White House aide has acknowledged concern about Israel’s potentially growing diplomatic isolation amid its latest spat with several European countries after they moved to recognize a Palestinian state.
The British government continues to assess that Israel has the intent to follow international humanitarian law even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled Gaza's Rafah, but several MPs pressed UK ministers to explain how London could have come to its conclusions.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei told Pakistani Prime Minister shahbaz Sharif that the recent visit of late president of Iran Ebrahim Raisi to Pakistan can serve as a turning point in relations between Tehran and Islamabad.
The leaders of Norway, Ireland and Spain have stated their countries will formally recognise Palestine as a state next week for the sake of “peace in the Middle East“, prompting Israel to immediately recall its envoys.
The US and its allies should shoot down Moscow's missiles, give Kiev more weapons, and allow Ukraine to strike Russia directly, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the New York Times newspaper.
Beijing will continue strengthening the strategic partnership with Tehran "regardless of how the situation changes", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told at a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mahdi Safari.
Russia’s Southern Military District has launched the first stage of recently announced tactical nuclear drills, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed deep sorrow over the martyrdom of his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, calling it “a great loss”. He stated Tehran and Moscow will continue down the path of the late Iranian president to further boost ties and mutual cooperation.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that he allow Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range weapons to carry out strikes inside Russian territory.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has left Cairo for the Iranian capital Tehran to participate in the memorial ceremony of late President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions, according to the Arab country’s foreign ministry.
Two Republican congressmen introduced a bill that would provide the same employment and economic protections to Americans serving in the Israeli military as US citizens who get deployed to serve in the US military.
The United Nations (UN) warns it has run out of food supplies in Rafah, the city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip at the center of a possible new Israeli military push.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has stated that if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for top Israeli officials over their alleged war crimes in Gaza, all EU member states will be legally forced to oblige.
The military spokesperson for the Houthi movement says the Yemeni fhighters have shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was conducting hostile activities in the airspace over the central province of Bayda.
Israeli soldiers killed Palestinian students, a teacher and a doctor, and wounded others, including a journalist, during an assault on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
Over 900,000 people, approximately 40% of Gaza's population, have been displaced in the past two weeks as Israeli bombardment continues across much of the blockaded enclave, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has stated.
Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency announced on Tuesday, almost five years after announcing she had fully recovered from breast cancer.