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March 28, 2026 2:05 PM

West Asia tensions escalate with fresh missile exchanges; Yemen launch widens conflict footprint

Tensions across West Asia escalated sharply overnight as multiple missile and drone exchanges were reported, alongside renewed Israeli strikes on Lebanon. Israel said its air defence systems intercepted most incoming aerial threats, while sirens were triggered in central regions following a reported missile launch from Yemen—marking the first such launch from Yemeni territory in the current phase of the conflict. Lebanese authorities reported casualties after fresh strikes in Beirut and southe...

October 14, 2025 10:23 PM

Gaza ceasefire outlook darkens as Israel delays aid and Hamas tightens grip

Israel delayed aid into Gaza and kept the enclave's border shut on Tuesday, while re-emergent Hamas fighters demonstrated their grip by executing men in the street, darkening the outlook for U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war. Three Israeli officials said Israel had decided to restrict aid into the shattered Gaza Strip and delay plans to open the border crossing to Egypt at least through Wednesday, because Hamas had been too slow to turn over bodies of dead hostages. The militant...

October 14, 2025 3:03 PM

Israel says it opens fire on suspects in Gaza, local authorities report six killed

Israel's military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by suspects who approached its forces in the northern Gaza Strip, and health authorities in the enclave said at least six Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire. The military said the suspects had crossed a boundary for an initial Israeli pullback under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan, in a violation of the deal. Gaza's local health authority said the Israeli military killed six Palestinians in two separate incident...

July 21, 2025 4:15 PM

Israel Strikes Houthi Targets at Yemen’s Hodeidah Port Over Alleged Military Use

The Israeli military has confirmed that it struck targets at the port of Hodeidah in Yemen, claiming the facilities were being used by the Houthi movement for military purposes. Colonel Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said in a post on X that the operation targeted infrastructure belonging to what he described as the “terrorist Houthi regime.” According to Adraee, the strikes destroyed engineering equipment used to rebuild port facilities, fuel barrels, and...

July 14, 2025 8:40 AM

Israeli missile hits Gaza children collecting water, IDF blames malfunction

At least eight Palestinians, most of them children, were killed and more than a dozen were wounded in central Gaza when they went to collect water on Sunday, local officials said, in an Israeli strike which the military said missed its target. The Israeli military said the missile had intended to hit an Islamic Jihad militant in the area but that a malfunction had caused it to fall "dozens of metres from the target". "The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians," it said in a statement, a...

July 6, 2025 11:21 AM

Israeli military says intercepted missile launched from Yemen

The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israel. Sirens were activated across several areas in Israel in accordance with protocol, it said. Israel threatened Yemen's Houthi movement with a naval and air blockade if it the Iran-aligned group persists with attacks on Israel, in what it says is solidarity with Gaza. Since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis have been firing at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, di...

June 27, 2025 2:04 PM

Iran’s three key nuclear sites significantly damaged in 12-day operation: IDF

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday announced that its 12-day military operation against Iran resulted in significant damage to three of the country’s main nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, dealing a major blow to the Iranian regime’s nuclear infrastructure. The IDF asserted that Israel launched ‘Operation Rising Lion’ on June 13 with the intention of damaging the Iranian nuclear and missile projects following the identification of progress in the three programs, wh...

June 23, 2025 11:39 AM

Israeli forces recover bodies of three hostages from Gaza

Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of three hostages which had been held in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian militant group Hamas' 2023 attack, the military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The hostages were identified as civilians Ofra Keidar and Yonatan Samerano, and soldier Shay Levinson. All were killed on the day of the attack, on October 7, 2023, the military said. With their retrieval, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, only 20 of whom are believed to be aliv...

June 21, 2025 2:32 PM

Saeed Izadi, mastermind of October 7 attack, killed in Israeli airstrike

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday claimed to have eliminated Saeed Izadi, a senior Iranian military figure and a key architect of the Iranian regime’s strategy to destroy Israel. Izadi was reportedly killed in a targeted airstrike conducted by the IDF in the Qom region of Iran. In a post on social media platform X, the IDF announced: “Saeed Izadi, a founder of the Iranian regime’s plan to destroy Israel, was eliminated in a precise IDF strike in the area of Qom. Izadi was also ...

June 19, 2025 1:07 PM

Israel establishes air corridor to Tehran as Iranian missile hits major hospital

An Iranian missile struck the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, inflicting extensive damage and wounding multiple individuals as the Israel-Iran conflict entered a dangerously escalated phase. The strike on Soroka Medical Center, one of Israel’s largest hospitals, marked a significant shift in targeting civilian medical infrastructure. Israeli media aired images of shattered windows, damaged wards, and thick black smoke engulfing the hospital complex. In response, Israel has in...