President Vladimir Putin will expand his war in Ukraine by attacking another European country, President Volodymyr Zelensky has predicted, and accused Russia of recent drone incursions that he stated were an attempt to test NATO’s defences.
European Union defence ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to detect, track and intercept violations of their airspace, the bloc’s defence chief has announced.
The United Nations has released a report, revealing that more than 150 companies are profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.
Threats by NATO member states to shoot down Russian warplanes are “reckless and irresponsible,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has stated. He insisted that no hard evidence has been presented to back up allegations that Russian planes violated bloc members’ airspace.
Ukraine will never recognize the incorporation of its former territories into Russia and wants them back through either military or diplomatic means, the country’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has stated.
Talks between Israel and Syria have “hit a last-minute snag” over the former’s demand that it be allowed a secure conduit on Syrian territory, several Reuters sources have stated.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has affirmed that Israeli soldiers have killed more than 2,500 Palestinians in recent months while they tried to access food aid in northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands remain trapped amid acute famine.
Several Western states have begun manufacturing copies of Iran’s Shahed drone, which are not expensive but efficient and accurate, a leading American daily reports.
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, presented Arab and Muslim leaders with a 21-point plan in New York this week to end the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip and establish a post-Hamas governing framework, Axios news website reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed the United Nations as a weak institution that is helpless in stopping war amid his country’s 3 1/2-year defense against Russian soldiers.
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has called for the lifting of international sanctions against Damascus in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, becoming the country’s first head of state to speak at the gathering in nearly 60 years.
The United Nations has announced that one million Syrian refugees have returned to their country since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December, while warning that funding for humanitarian operations is falling.
Israel’s military announced that a drone launched from Yemen has struck the southern city of Eilat, and rescuers report that at least 22 people are wounded, including two in serious condition.
Organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a Gaza-bound flotilla with pro-Palestinian activists on board carrying aid, reported hearing blasts and seeing multiple drone attacks from their boats situated off Greece from late Tuesday to the early hours of Wednesday.
The Kremlin on Wednesday brushed off a comment by U.S. President Donald Trump describing Russia as a "paper tiger", and announced that President Vladimir Putin valued his efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict.
US President Donald Trump has praised a "very successful" multilateral meeting on the Gaza Strip he held with select leaders of Muslim-majority nations.
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to turn the Arab region into “an Israeli sphere of influence.”
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has called for an immediate halt to Israeli attacks, the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from Lebanese territory and the release of Lebanese prisoners.
US President Donald Trump has argued Ukraine could win its war against Russia and regain the land it has lost and “maybe even go further than that,” suggesting the Russian army is a “paper tiger.”
Israel has ordered the indefinite closure of the King Hussein Bridge, also known as the Allenby Bridge, stopping the passage of goods and people through the only gateway between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, Palestinian authorities announced.
US President Donald Trump has stated that NATO nations should shoot down Russian warplanes violating their territory, as he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of a UN summit.
Israeli soldiers have “systematically destroyed” civil life across the Gaza Strip since October 2023, while demonstrating a “clear intent” to forcibly remove Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, effectively preventing any possibility of a future Palestinian state, according to a new UN report released on the opening day of the annual General Assembly meeting.
