ISLAMABAD: At least 64 people have been killed this week in a fresh outbreak of violence involving the Pashtun Sunni and Shia tribes of Pakistan‘s militancy-prone Kurram district along the Afghanistan border in the northwest, where a ceasefire had been signed just over a month ago.Governor Faisal Karim Kundi of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said dozens…
JERUSALEM: Israel struck Lebanon with around 100 jets early Sunday in what it called a preemptive strike to avert a large Hezbollah rocket and missile attack. The Lebanese militant group responded, saying it fired hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of a top commander last month. It was one of the biggest…
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed at least 18 people from the same family on Saturday. The airstrike targeted a house and adjacent warehouse sheltering displaced people at the entrance to the town of Zawaida, as confirmed by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken. An Associated Press reporter counted the…
As if he sensed his death approaching, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s final words to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Ali Khamenei before his assassination in Tehran were a Koranic verse reflecting on life, death, immortality, and resilience.The exchange of words took place shortly before an Israeli strike claimed his life. Known for his tough stance…
In a recorded video released today (May 26), Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy flatly rejected any Russian hints of a ceasefire. Speaking from the embattled Ukrainian city of Kharkiv which has been the focus of a new Russian assault in recent weeks, Zelenskyy asserted that Ukraine had the largest experience of “Russian lies” and that Moscow…
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza policy was a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a ceasefire, in an interview aired Tuesday.Biden’s comments were some of his strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu amid growing tensions over the civilian death toll from Israel’s war on Hamas and dire conditions inside…
