Photo Credit: Reuters/Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force/Handout (Reuters) – China and Japan engaged on Friday in a fresh round of invective over military movements near a disputed group of uninhabited islands, fuelling tension that for months has bedeviled relations between...
A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the northern Mali town of Gao – the country’s first such case, sources say. The attacker approached a group of soldiers on a motorbike before detonating...
Two Russian fighter jets have violated Japanese airspace, prompting Tokyo to scramble its own aircraft, reports say. Japan lodged a protest after the planes were detected off the northern island of Hokkaido for just...
Photo Credit: Reuters/Egyptian Presidency/Handout (Reuters) – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Egypton Tuesday on the first trip by an Iranian president since the 1979 revolution, underlining a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of...
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary and the country’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (AFP Photo / Prakash Singh) Israel will regret its attack against Syria, a top Iranian official has warned during a...
Hamas legislator Ahmed Attoun. Photo: Sam Sokol Hamas officials, including legislators and top figures, were arrested in pre-dawn raids on their homes in Nablus, Hebron. The IDF has arrested a number of senior Hamas figures...
Multiple sources confirm Israeli jets attacked a target, possibly a weapons convoy, headed from Syria to Lebanon. Reuters Beirut Bureau Chief Dominic Evans runs through the possible repercussions of the Israeli attack.
Russia has expressed concern at an alleged Israeli attack on Syria, saying such a strike would be an unacceptable violation of the UN Charter. Syria’s army said Israeli jets had targeted a military research...
Israel launched an airstrike inside Syria overnight near the border with Lebanon, according to U.S. and regional officials. The regional officials said Israel had been planning in the days leading up to the airstrike...
(Reuters) – Israeli forces attacked a convoy on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, a Western diplomat and regional security sources said on Wednesday, as concern has grown in the Jewish state over the fate of...
