Category: 2. Middle East

An Israeli drone strike killed on Saturday a civilian who was repairing the roof of a house in the town of Khiam in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese news agency NNA, Anadolu reports.

Further details were not immediately available.

Cross-border warfare between Israel and the Hezbollah group in Lebanon escalated into a full-scale war last September. Despite a November ceasefire, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily attacks…

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday called for the immediate lifting of restrictions preventing life-saving aid from reaching Gaza, saying it has food stockpiled to support the territory’s entire population for more than three months, Anadolu reports.

“UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry,” the agency said on…

Syrian authorities said Saturday they arrested a group attempting to start new wildfires in the northwestern Latakia countryside, days after the region emerged from nearly two weeks of devastating forest fires, Anadolu reports.

A mobile patrol detained the group in the forested area of Al-Mukhtariya village, the Defense Ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA.

The individuals were identified as “remnants of the former regime” and were…

Armed clashes continued Saturday between Bedouin tribal fighters and local armed groups in Suwayda, Syria even as internal security forces began deploying across the province to implement a nationwide ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.

According to the state-run news agency SANA, security units have already started their deployment in and around Suwayda to enforce the terms of the ceasefire and help stabilize the situation.

However, intense fighting remains…

GAZA (Reuters) -At least 32 people were killed by Israeli fire while they were on their way to an aid distribution site in Gaza at dawn on Saturday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The Israeli military said it had fired warning shots at suspects who approached its troops after they did not heed calls to stop, about a kilometre away from an aid distribution site that was not active at the time.

Gaza resident Mohammed al-Khalidi said he was in the…

At least 58,765 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, Anadolu reports.

A ministry statement said 98 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 48 hours, while 511 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 140,485 in the Israeli onslaught.

Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them, it added.

The…

Syrian Bedouin and their allies fought Druze fighters in the community’s Sweida heartland for a seventh day Saturday despite a ceasefire ordered by the government following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention.

AFP correspondents reported clashes in the west of the provincial capital as Druze fighters battled armed Bedouin supported by tribal gunmen from other parts of Syria.

The interior ministry announced that internal security forces had begun deploying in…

Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida on Saturday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.

Israel had bombed defence ministry forces in both Sweida and Damascus earlier this week to force their withdrawal after they were accused of summary executions and other abuses against Druze civilians during their brief deployment in the southern province.

More than 700 people have been killed in Sweida since…

Druze fighters pushed out rival armed factions from Syria’s southern city of Sweida on Saturday, a monitor said, after the government ordered a ceasefire following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention.

Fighting nonetheless persisted in other parts of Sweida province, even as the Druze regained control of their city following days of fierce battle with armed Bedouin supported by tribal gunmen from other parts of Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor…

Fighting in Syria’s Sweida “halted” on Sunday, the government said, after the southern city was recaptured by Druze fighters and state forces redeployed to the region where more than 900 people have been killed in sectarian violence.

Druze fighters had pushed out rival armed factions from the city on Saturday, a monitor said, after the government ordered a ceasefire following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention.

Sweida was “evacuated of all tribal fighters, and…