CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas reiterated on Thursday its demand Israel end the Gaza war as part of any deal to release hostages held there, with Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior official in the Palestinian militant group, telling Reuters that U.S. pressure on Hamas "has no value".
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NAWA, Syria (AP) — As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from several countries backing either the rebels or Syria’s government met in Qatar on what to do.
BERLIN (AP) — Two people, including a 2-year-old boy, were killed and three others injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria on Wednesday. The suspect, a former asylum-seeker who was supposed to be leaving Germany, was arrested.
Israel launched a major military operation Tuesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin that killed at least nine Palestinians and left at least 40 more people wounded, Palestinian health officials said, as Israel’s fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza entered its third day.
The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour through mountains of rubble looking for bodies of those killed by Israeli bombardments during the 15-month war.
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli troops have pulled back to the edges of Gaza, the first hostages have been released and many Palestinians have returned to what remains of their homes in the first few days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
The Israeli military said Wednesday its soldiers killed an alleged militant in Gaza whom it said posed a threat to its forces, as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fourth day.
JERUSALEM/JENIN (Reuters) -Israel's defence minister said on Wednesday forces were applying lessons learned in Gaza as a major operation continued in Jenin, which the military said was aimed at countering Iranian-backed militant groups in the volatile West Bank city. A military spokesperson declined to give details but said the operation was "relatively similar" to but in a smaller area than one last August, in which hundreds of Israeli troops backed by drones and helicopters raided Jenin and other flashpoint cities in the occupied West Bank.
Guns may have fallen silent in Gaza, but for Mahmoud Abu Dalfa, the agony is not over. Abu Dalfa's wife and children were among 35 of his extended family who were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit the building in Gaza City's Shejaia suburb in December 2023, he said.
Columbia University has condemned the interruption by pro-Palestinian protesters of an Israeli history class on January 21.“No group of students has a right to disrupt another group of students in a Columbia classroom,” a statement from Interim President Katrina Armstrong said.Footage captured by student Elisha Baker shows the protesters in headscarves entering the classroom.The protesters interrupted a History of Modern Israel class taught by Avi Shilon, the Times of Israel said.Baker told the Times of Israel: “That is the culture at Columbia University. It is nearly impossible to have a conversation about Zionism unless it is about criticizing Zionism.”Shilon told the newspaper: “I didn’t know how to react because if you would be aggressive they can claim that you pushed them or something, and if you’re going to be more calm they can continue, so I suggested to them to join the class and to learn about the conflict.”“We strongly condemn this disruption, as well as the fliers that included violent imagery that is unacceptable on our campus and in our community,” Armstrong’s statement said. Credit: Elisha Baker via Storyful
At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews
While the cease-fire is welcome news, there is a very real possibility that we have yet to see the end of the Israel-Hamas war.
At least 80 people have been killed and more than 18,000 forced to leave their homes in Colombia amid escalating violence between rebel groups.View on euronews
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels on Wednesday released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the start of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war.
French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate attack on civilians, a legal source said late on Tuesday. The mandate was issued on Jan. 20 as part of an investigation into the case of Salah Abou Nabour, a Franco-Syrian national, who was killed on June 7, 2017 in a bombing raid in Syria. This is the second arrest warrant issued by French judges, for the former Syrian leader, who was overthrown in early December 2024 by insurgent forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant for former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad over his alleged role in a 2017 bombing that killed a Franco-Syrian civilian. The warrant, issued on 20 January, names Assad as "commander-in-chief of the armed forces" in connection with a 2017 bombing in Deraa that killed Salah Abou Nabout, a 59-year-old Franco-Syrian and former French teacher. Nabout’s home was reportedly struck by Syrian army helicopters. “This case represents the culmi
As the long-awaited ceasefire comes into effect, here’s a look – in 6 graphics – at what Gaza is like after 15 months of war.
JINSAFUT, West Bank (AP) — Shortly after suspected Jewish settlers stormed Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank late Monday, setting cars and property ablaze, U.S. President Donald Trump canceled sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.
A Chinese man was killed as he traveled in northeastern Afghanistan while working for a mining company, Taliban officials said Wednesday. A militant resistance group took responsibility for the killing, alleging the man was working with Taliban intelligence.
MONTREAL — Despite assurances, Montreal police have made no new arrests in the two months since a November anti-NATO protest in the city's downtown turned violent.
The Israeli military killed two Palestinian fighters in the West Bank that it said had been involved in a deadly shooting of Israeli civilians as a major" anti-terror" operation in Jenin entered a third day.
