Drones over US show gaps in airspace security, top Trump adviser says
Washington DC, US Reuters A raft of drone sightings in New Jersey and other US states has underscored gaps in US airspace security that need to be closed, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday. President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration has played down concerns about a growing number of […]
Israel kills senior Gaza commanders as rockets cause first death in Israel
Gaza/Jerusalem, Israel Reuters Israel killed the head of Islamic Jihad’s rocket force and his deputy, pressing an operation that has cost 30 lives in Gaza including women and children, while Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes inflicted a first fatality in Israel on Thursday. Amid mediation efforts by Egypt, neither side seemed ready to douse the worst […]
Palestinians in Gaza grieve, assess damage following ceasefire
Gaza Reuters For many in Gaza, news of a truce between Israel and the Islamic Jihad after the most serious round of violence in just over a year was bittersweet. As families aired laundry on blasted walls and sifted through the rubble to salvage whatever documents and furniture they could find, others laid their loved […]
Israel re-opens Gaza crossings as truce with Palestinians holds
Gaza/Jerusalam Reuters Israel reopened border crossings into Gaza on Monday following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with the militant Islamic Jihad group that ended the most serious outbreak of fighting around the volatile Palestinian enclave in more than a year. At least 44 people, including 15 children, were killed in 56 hours of violence that began when […]
Israel, Palestinians set for Gaza truce from Sunday night
Gaza/Jerusalem Reuters Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group agreed to a Cairo-mediated truce to take effect late on Sunday, both sides said, raising hopes of an end to the most serious flare-up on the Gaza frontier in more than a year. Since Friday, Israeli forces pounded Palestinian targets through the weekend, triggering longer-range […]
Air strikes, rocket attacks push Israel, Gaza into second day of fighting
Gaza/Jerusalem, Israel Reuters Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, including four children. Hamas, the Islamist group which controls the enclave, said the children were among the dead from […]
Ukraine refuses to surrender Mariupol as Russia warns of humanitarian “catastrophe”
Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine on Monday rejected Russian calls to surrender the port city of Mariupol, where residents are besieged with little food, water and power and fierce fighting shows little sign of easing. “There can be no question of any surrender, laying down of arms,” the Ukrainska Pravda news portal cited Ukraine’s Deputy Prime […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy presses Israel for missile defence help, fighting rages in Mariupol
Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of the port city of Mariupol on Sunday, local authorities said, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to Israel for help in pushing back the Russian assault on his country. In the latest in a series of appeals he has made for help from abroad, […]
Netanyahu, Gaza militants fight on as Biden urges “de-escalation”
Gaza Reuters Israel and Gaza militants vowed to keep fighting after US President Joe Biden urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek a “de-escalation” on Wednesday on the path to a ceasefire in the 10-day-old conflict. An Egyptian security source said the two sides had agreed in principle to a ceasefire after help from mediators, […]
Israel-Gaza conflict rages on despite US, regional diplomacy
Gaza/Tel Aviv Reuters Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of US and regional diplomacy that has so far failed to halt more than a week of deadly fighting. Israel’s missile attacks on the densely populated Palestinian enclave killed a top Islamic Jihad […]