Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.
Three were marched bent double into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
The (...)
Israeli authorities informed the United Nations on Sunday that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.
"As of today, UNRWA, the main lifeline for Palestine refugees, is (...)
The UN Secretary-General on Saturday highlighted the urgent need for a negotiated political solution in Syria, emphasizing the protection of civilians and the dire humanitarian situation.
March marks the thirteenth anniversary of the conflict in (...)
A Marine rapid response force is expected to leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the coming weeks and return to the United States, according to two defense officials, in a significant reduction of US forces in the region.
The USS Bataan (...)
The UN Secretary-General addressed the Security Council on Friday, underscoring the fundamental need to honor the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as the full-scale invasion by Russia of the country marks its (...)
A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship.
Shamima Begum flew to Syria in 2015 with two school friends to join the terror group. While (...)
A big Russian amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, has sunk off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine's armed forces.
Powerful explosions were heard early on Wednesday, according to local social media, which suggested the (...)
A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
A leader of Kataib Hezbollah and two of his guards were in a vehicle when it was targeted in the east of the Iraqi capital. All three of them died.
The (...)
It is a lonely drive to Israel's most northern town, Metula, along a spur of land that is surrounded on three sides by Lebanon. That means it is also surrounded on three sides by Lebanon's most powerful armed group, Hezbollah.
The soldiers at the (...)
Hamas says it has given its response to a framework proposal for a new ceasefire in Gaza.
The details of the deal — set out by Israel, the US, Qatar and Egypt — have not been released.
It was earlier reported to include a six-week truce, when more (...)
A drone attack on the largest US military base in Syria has killed at least six allied Kurdish-led fighters.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said its commando academy at the Al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir Al-Zour was hit in the (...)
Five days after a devastating earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria last year, the world witnessed a miracle: Sezai Karabas and his 6-year-old daughter Sengul were pulled out of the rubble of his collapsed apartment block in Gaziantep (...)
Paramedics brought the dead and injured to a central Gaza hospital on Sunday after the latest in a day of deadly Israeli strikes on the town of Deir al-Balah.
At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured when a strike hit a house in the (...)
Iran has called US air strikes on Iraq and Syria a "strategic mistake" after 85 targets were hit across the region on Friday.
The US launched retaliatory strikes in response to last week's drone attack on a US military base that killed three (...)
SHARJAH — Saudi Arabia achieved a remarkable success in the fourth West Asia Para Games, held in Sharjah by securing 55 medals.
The haul included 17 gold, 23 silver, and 15 bronze medals, bolstering the nation's standing to third place in the (...)
A US warship's destruction of an incoming Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week marks the first use in this conflict of an advanced weapons system dubbed the Navy's "last line of defense."
The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CWIS) was deployed by (...)
More than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments' policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to "grave violations of international law".
The "transatlantic statement", a copy of which (...)
The US has approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials have told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
The strikes would take place over a number of days, officials say, and weather conditions will likely dictate (...)
A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia suspected of a drone strike in Jordan that killed three US soldiers says it has suspended operations against US forces.
Kataib Hezbollah, which is part of an umbrella group that claimed Sunday's attack, said this (...)
More than half of Gaza's buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the Hamas attacks of 7 October, new analysis seen by the BBC reveals. Detailed before-and-after imagery also shows how the bombardment of (...)
The US government has released the names of three US soldiers killed by a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday.
Sgt William Jerome Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, were killed when a drone (...)
Three US troops have been killed and 25 injured in a drone attack on a US base in Jordan, near the Syria border, the US has announced.
US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and (...)
In Gaza, a strip of land fast becoming a wasteland, few international aid bodies can still operate. The United Nations is one of them.
Its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA, was founded in 1949, working in Gaza, the West Bank, (...)
Iran has denied involvement in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan's border with Syria that killed three US troops.
The US blamed the attack on "radical Iranian-backed militant groups" which also left dozens injured.
US President Biden vowed (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a military base on the Jordanian-Syrian border, which led to the death of three American soldiers and the injury of more than 30 others.
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed (...)