Middle East

Middle East

Israeli airstrikes kill 43 across Gaza

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said.

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Israeli air strikes kill 17 in Gaza

Israeli air strikes on al-Bureij refugee camp and Jabalia town in central and northern Gaza killed at least 17 Palestinians yesterday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported..The Israeli military had no immediate comment although in a post on X, its Arabic spokesperson warned r

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Gaza hospitals have become ‘death trap’

UN rights chief Volker Turk said yesterday that hospitals in the Gaza Strip had become a "death trap", insisting that such facilities must instead be protected during conflict.

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‘New resistance’ against Israel to emerge in Syria

Iran’s security chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian said a new group would emerge in Syria to fight Israel following the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, state media reported.

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More than half of Syrian children out of school

Save the Children tells AFP

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Stop attacks on Gaza hospitals

The head of the World Health Organization yesterday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days.

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31 Kurdish, Turkish-backed fighters killed

A Syria war monitor said 31 combatants had been killed since Sunday in ongoing battles between Turkey-backed groups and Kurdish-led forces.

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Iran confirms arrest of Italian journo

Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported yesterday.

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Turkey, Russia and Iran meet in Doha seeking exit from Syria chaos

Turkey's foreign minister will meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Doha on Saturday to try to find a solution to the renewed fighting in Syria and avoid chaos on its doorstep

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Goal of offensive is to overthrow Assad

Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published yesterday.

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North gaza hospital: Israeli strikes kill 29 Palestinians

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 29 people were killed by Israeli strikes around a major hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia yesterday.

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‘Israel committing genocide in Gaza’

Amnesty International yesterday accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war last year, saying its new report was a “wake-up call” for the world.

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Gaza has most child amputees per capita globally

The United Nations said yesterday that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, after more than a year of Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

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Syria’s Aleppo slips from govt control

Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo has fallen from government control for the first time since the country’s conflict began more than a decade ago, a war monitor said yesterday, after a surprise advance by rebels.

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Syria war monitor says rebels control most of Aleppo

A monitor of Syria’s war said yesterday that rebels controlled most of Aleppo, reporting Russian air strikes on parts of Syria’s second city for the first time since 2016.

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32 killed as Israel pounds Gaza

At least 32 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza overnight and into yesterday, Gaza medics said.

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Half of Aleppo now under Syrian jihadist control: war monitor

Jihadists and allied factions have taken control of "half of the city of Aleppo", the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

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Syria jihadists, allies enter Aleppo city

Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies reached Syria’s second city of Aleppo yesterday, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government.

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