Protesters against Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza briefly breached the outer security fence of the Democratic convention in Chicago on Monday, hours before US president Joe Biden passed the torch to...
THERE is only one way to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is not through bilateral negotiations. Israel has amply demonstrated, including with the assassination of the lead Hamas negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, that it has no interest in a permanent ceasefire...
The United Nations on Monday condemned 鈥榰nacceptable鈥� levels of violence that are now commonplace against humanitarian workers after a record 280 were killed worldwide in 2023...
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken on Monday urged Israel and Hamas not to derail negotiations that he said may be a 鈥榣ast opportunity鈥� to secure a Gaza truce and hostage release deal...
An Israeli air raid last month on a key Yemeni rebel-held port was a 鈥榩ossible war crime鈥� that has threatened food and aid supply for millions, Human Rights Watch said...
WHILE many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits...
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken headed to Israel on Sunday seeking a Gaza ceasefire deal that could help avert a wider war, while a senior Hamas official dismissed 鈥楢merican diktats鈥� in negotiations...
Deadly Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Saturday as the US secretary of state was set to visit Israel aiming to finalise a Gaza truce agreement, which diplomats say could...
Lebanon鈥檚 health ministry said an Israeli air strike on Saturday in southern Lebanon killed 10 Syrians, as the Israeli military reported hitting weapons stores of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
Diplomatic pressure mounted on Israel Friday to secure a truce that could avert a wider war after more than 10 months of fighting in Gaza, as mediators prepared to meet for...
SO IN 1948, Israel captured 78 per cent of Palestine (the UN Partition plan had originally given Israel 55 per cent although Jews formed only one-third of the population at the time). To...
Ten months of cross-border violence between Hezbollah and Israeli forces has killed senior commanders and several hundred fighters from the Iran-backed group, causing destruction and...
The health ministry in Gaza said over 40,000 Palestinians had been killed to date after Israel attacked the Hamas-run territory following Hamas鈥檚 unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel.
Israeli air strikes targeted Gaza on Wednesday ahead of ceasefire talks that the United States hopes will stop Iran striking Israel in retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader...
THE push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. A blood filled, fiery Armageddon will reveal the forces of virtue, linking the evangelicals of the United States with the right-wing Jewish nationalists in Israel. That appalling prospect is certainly not one to discount:..
INDIA鈥橲 diplomacy in the Middle East is again under pressure from conflicting parties of the Arab-Israeli crisis. India鈥檚 traditional policy of favoring a two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent and viable Palestinian state remains unchanged. Nevertheless, much has changed about how India reinterprets the meaning...
Rescuers in Gaza said an Israeli air strike on a religious school housing displaced Palestinians killed 93 people on Saturday, sparking international condemnation despite Israel鈥檚 insistence that it was targeting militants...
An Israeli strike Friday killed two Hezbollah fighters near the border, a source close to the Lebanese group and Israel鈥檚 military said, while drones broadcast anti-Hezbollah messages over south Lebanon...
Israel committed a costly 鈥榮trategic mistake鈥� with its killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week, Iran鈥檚 acting foreign minister told AFP in an interview on Thursday...
Norway said on Thursday that Israel鈥檚 decision to revoke the diplomatic status of Oslo鈥檚 envoys to the Palestinian Authority was an 鈥榚xtreme action鈥� that would 鈥榟ave consequences鈥�...
Hamas named the alleged mastermind of the deadliest attack in Israeli history as its new leader, further inflaming regional tensions as the Gaza war entered its 11th month on Wednesday...
THE reported death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this 鈥� all the more so when Israel鈥檚 apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest that the figures are inflated...
Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, as violence in the occupied territory showed...
Gaza鈥檚 Civil Defence agency said it received the bodies of 80 unidentified Palestinians from Israel on Monday, which it buried in a mass grave...
Israel鈥檚 far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered the seizure of 100 million shekels ($26 million) of tax funds intended for the Palestinian Authority, saying it...
Lebanon鈥檚 health ministry said two people were killed on Monday in an Israeli strike on the country鈥檚 south, with Hezbollah announcing one of its fighters died and...
Iran said Monday it has the 鈥榣egal right鈥� to respond to the assassination in Tehran last week of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, an attack blamed on Israel amid the...
WITH the targeted assassination of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran on July 30 and a Hezbollah commander in Beirut a day before, the Middle East is once again overcast by the dark clouds of a possible war. Israeli officials are gloating that the head of Hamas, which had carried out the October 7, 2023, strike on Israel, has been killed...
THE brutal realism of Tarantino鈥檚 Django Unchained may well cause the weak of stomach to throw up. A white plantation owner in America鈥檚 deep south, seated on a sofa in his living room, watches two burly slaves wrestle to the grim end or at least until one of them has gouged out the eyes of the other...
A monitor of Syria鈥檚 war said one person was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike on a vehicle, after reporting overnight raids on a truck convoy entering Lebanon from...