War & Conflict

Following strikes by Yemen’s Huthi rebels, a plan to establish a naval mission to help defend Red Sea cargo would be discussed by EU nations the following week, officials announced on Friday. Before US and British...

The United States military said late Friday it had carried out another strike on Yemen’s Huthi rebels, this time on a radar site, a day after multiple air strikes by US and UK forces on the...

Following weeks of disruptions caused by attacks on Red Sea commerce by Iran-backed Huthi militants, heavy airstrikes by the US and Britain hammered targets in rebel-held Yemen early on Friday. The Huthi rebels’ Al-Masirah TV station...

The German government on Friday sharply rejected allegations before the UN’s top court that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza and warned against “political instrumentalisation” of the charge. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement...

Ninety-one people have died in a bombing strike in southern Iran that was claimed by the Islamic State group, according to state media on Saturday. The previous death toll was raised after two victims died from...

Russia has evacuated around 300 residents of Belgorod, a city near the Ukrainian border, over strikes by Kyiv, the governor of the region said on Monday. “Some 300 residents of Belgorod, who decided to temporarily evacuate,...

Early on Saturday, Israel launched bombs on the southern part of Gaza, triggering warnings from the UN that three months of fighting had left the embattled Palestinian territory “uninhabitable”. As the conflict enters its fourth month...

Sources at the Election Commission claim that more than half of the 42,025 voting places for the upcoming 12th national parliament elections are vulnerable to violence. On election day morning, polling places will receive about 93%...

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery rounds on Friday near a disputed maritime border with South Korea in another escalation of tension between the rivals and prompting the South to take “corresponding” action with live...

At least 84 people were murdered in the twin explosions in Iran that were claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, which the UN Security Council denounced as “reprehensible” on Thursday. The day before, on the...