Hamas still has a "significant force posture" inside the Gaza Strip after almost three months of Israeli strikes and a ground offensive, the White House announced on Wednesday.
The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that 248 of its service members have been released from Ukrainian captivity. Kiev also says that 230 of its personnel have returned home.
The US State Department has insisted that Washington played no role in the twin bombings that killed nearly 100 people in Iran on Wednesday or in the drone strike that took out a Hamas leader in Lebanon on Tuesday.
Iran's UN envoy has stressed the country will use all available mechanisms to ensure accountability for the perpetrators of fatal terror attacks that targeted the southwestern Iranian city of Kerman.
The United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) underlined the importance of ensuring the safety of global supply chains, particularly in the Red Sea, during a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday.
The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has voiced deep concern over possible escalation of hostilities after the assassination of Hamas' deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut.
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, reasserted that the killing of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri will not go without punishment, warning Israel against attacking Lebanon.
A general strike was observed across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday to mark the assassination of the senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri, who was killed in a targeted Israeli drone attack in Lebanon on Tuesday.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has cautioned Israel that it will have to encounter more vigorous backlash from the Palestinian combatants, particularly in the West Bank, in the aftermath of assassination of Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas Saleh al-Arouri.
American forces stationed at military facilities in Iraq and neighboring Syria have come under attacks more than 118 times, according to a US military official, amid rising anti-American sentiments across the region over Washington’s unconditional support for Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the people of Gaza are resisting not only against the Zionist regime, but also against the atheistic, tyrannical and colonialist world as well as the United States.
The United States has quietly reached an agreement that extends its military presence at a base in Qatar for another 10 years, three US defense officials and another official familiar with the agreement told CNN.
Iran’s defense minister, in reaction to the assassination by the U.S.-backed Israeli regime of Saleh Arouri, the deputy chief of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, said, “There is no end in sight to the United States’ animosity, and this enmity will be to their own detriment.”
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement has vowed to respond to Israel's killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone raid in Beirut. Hezbollah has described the Israel raid a “dangerous aggression against Lebanon and its people, security, sovereignty and resistance.”
The US State Department has condemned Israeli proposals to remove the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza en masse in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. The US remains Israel’s main supporter militarily and diplomatically.
Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh has stated Israel will be held responsible for the assassination of senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri. He called the action as “a complete act of terrorism and a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty".
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has held the Israeli regime to account for its moves against the Islamic Republic of Iran following the recent Israeli threats against Tehran.
The spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry has warned against Israel's adventurism following the Tuesday assassination of a high-ranking leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas in Beirut.
A group of wounded survivors of the Hamas-led attack on a music festival on 7 October in southern Israel are suing Israeli security troops over negligence on part of the Israeli forces. Israel has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians since early October.
The stock prices of some container shipping companies have rallied by double digits as Yemen’s Houthi attacks on Israel-bound vessels in the Red Sea sparked concerns that the vital waterway to global trade is becoming inaccessible.
Powerful explosions rocked several Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, according to local officials. The reported strikes came after Moscow accused Kiev of carrying out deadly “terrorist attacks” on Belgorod, vowing retaliation.