Middle Orient

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “we are at war, and we will win it” early Saturday as the country’s air force began striking targets in Gaza in response to a surprise Hamas attack on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, involving more than 3,000 rockets and …

Palestinian militants on Saturday fired thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, and several assailant squads managed to break through the security fence and enter Israeli territory. Israel has amassed 100,000 troops on Gaza border in preparation for a ground offensive against Hamas. The operation that appears to …

Gunmen infiltrate Sderot, other communities; over 200 killed, 1,100 wounded; IDF declares ‘state of war,’ calls up reserves; 2,200 rockets fired, including at Tel Aviv, Dimona, J’lem Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched massive rocket barrages at southern and central Israel on Saturday morning, combined with an assault by …

It’s a new October war. Early Saturday morning, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its biggest assault on Israel in decades. Thousands of rockets arced from Gaza into Israel; black towers of smoke rose from where they struck. On motorcycles, trucks, and even paragliders, Palestinian militants darted into Israeli communities. Reports …

Lately there have been growing indications that a war against Israel may break out in September or October 2023. The trigger may be spiraling violent clashes resulting in many casualties, or the use of new weapons leading to many fatalities on the Israeli side, in the face of which Israel …

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a surprise attack on Israel on the early morning of a major Jewish holiday. As part of the attack, the Gaza-based terrorist group fired thousands of rockets into Israel and dispatched fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The following …

Hamas is the largest Palestinian extremist Islamic group, characterized as a terrorist organization by most of Europe, but many other countries. Now it has come to the fore again after entering southern Israel this morning in a surprise attack that is still ongoing at this moment . Hamas or the …

Cyprus wishes to oppose by any legal means the flow of illegal immigrants from Lebanon and the trafficking of persons from various circles, which is why it is proposing drastic measures to the neighboring country. With yesterday’s letter revealed by “F”, to his Lebanese counterpart Bassam Mawlawi, the Minister of …

The United States on Thursday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey. A Turkish defense ministry official said the drone that was shot down did not belong …

On 9 June 2023, a boat carrying approximately 750 migrating men, women, and children, left the shores of the city of Tobruk in Eastern Libya, heading to Italy. Most of those on board were Syrians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, and Palestinians. Their voyage and dream of reaching the shores of safety ended …