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Tensions escalate in the Middle East after an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh, targeting Hezbollah, kills civilians and brings about fears of broader conflict The Israeli assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh hours after targeting senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut caps a week of unprecedented escalation in the region …

While no party has claimed responsibility, the Gaza-based militant group immediately accused Israel of being behind the killing. Hamas’ top political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran, the Palestinian faction said in a statement released early Wednesday morning. The residence where Haniyeh was staying in northern Tehran “was …

Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has issued a call for action against Israel over its recent strike against a leading Hezbollah military official amid worsening tit-for-tat attacks against the backdrop of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, according to a letter shared with Newsweek. The letter, sent by …

For many, Haniyeh will remain a symbol of resistance in the face of Israeli occupation. Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran at the age of 62 in what the Palestinian group has described as “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence”. Haniyeh, who briefly served as …

Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran where he had been attending the president’s inauguration. Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that runs the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, which blamed Israel for his killing. Haniyeh and one …

The news headlines that emerged after the October 7 attack — when Hamas and a coalition of other militant groups launched a coordinated armed incursion into Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds — described it as a “surprise” attack.

Latest Developments The strike in Tehran on July 31 that killed Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s most senior political leader, brings to four the number of Hamas’s top leaders eliminated since the October 7 atrocities in southern Israel. Prior to the killing of Haniyeh — who was in Tehran for the inauguration …

Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory posture in the developing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. At a party conference in his hometown Rize, Erdogan …

L’assassinat par Israël du responsable du bureau politique du Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, à Téhéran le 31 juillet, s’inscrit dans la volonté de Tel-Aviv de déclencher un conflit régional plus large. Il s’agit d’un acte criminel qui trahit le désespoir israélien. Presque immédiatement après le début de la guerre de Gaza, …

Hamas’ top political leader was killed Wednesday by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination that risked escalating into an all-out regional war. Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “will …