For years, Iran has generally justified direct attacks on Israel as retaliation for actions against Iranian territory, commanders or interests. This time was different. Tehran acted after an attack on one of its allies, following an Israeli strike on what it said
Announcing his arrival in the UK on Sunday afternoon in a post on X, Zelensky said the main focus of the leaders’ talks would be “our defence in the war, greater co-operation for the security of all of Europe in the area
More than 140 drones were shot down over the surrounding Leningrad region, governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said, while the city’s governor, Alexander Beglov, urged residents to remain indoors for the first time since the war began more than four years ago.
Zelensky sent an open letter on Thursday calling for direct negotiations with Putin, writing that it was “wrong to simply wait” for the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, to become the focus of US attention once
Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim militia, political party and social movement, is Lebanon’s most powerful group and, with support from Iran, has built an armed force more formidable than the Lebanese army and has fought a series of conflicts with Israel. It is
The ministry also said that two paramedics were killed and a third was seriously wounded when Israeli forces “directly targeted an ambulance” in the Chehour area, which is about 14km (9 miles) to the east. The ambulance belonged to the Risala Scouts
South African protesters have accused undocumented migrants of placing pressure on public services, as well as being involved in crime, and have called on the government to strengthen immigration enforcement, resulting in rising anti-foreigner sentiment.
The Israeli military has struck Beirut twice since the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into force on 16 April, most recently on Thursday. But that is a reduction on what went before, with reports that the White House has been pressuring
Lebanon was drawn into the war between the US and Israel on one side, and Iran on the other, on 2 March, when Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Israel
However, his combative transport minister, Óscar Puente, appeared to make a broader point about the investigations cornering the Socialists when he said “there is a government that some want to bring down, not through the ballot box, but with other dark arts,