Category: 2. Middle East

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip Monday killed two journalists, Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, according to confirmations from their respective networks. 

Shabat, a 23-year-old correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was hit by an airstrike while in his car in Beit Lahiya. Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was killed in an airstrike south of Khan Younis. Their deaths were confirmed by both Al Jazeera and Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Israel’s military pressed ground operations across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, encircling part of Rafah city near Egypt almost a week into a renewed assault on the Palestinian territory.

Deployment of Israeli troops in parts of Gaza, despite calls to revive a January truce with Hamas militants, comes alongside a deadly flare-up in Lebanon and missiles fired from Yemen.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday that the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel had…

A meeting between Russian and US officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia, Russian state media said, as both sides in the conflict reported a wave of fresh attacks.

While the talks took place at a luxury hotel in Riyadh, nearly 90 people including 17 children were wounded in a missile attack Monday on Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The attack on a “densely populated residential area” damaged apartments…

Al Jazeera said on Monday that a journalist working with one of its channels was killed in an Israeli strike on his vehicle in northern Gaza.

“Hussam Shabat, a journalist collaborating with Al Jazeera Mubasher, was martyred in an Israeli strike targeting his car in the northern Gaza Strip,” an Al Jazeera alert said, referring to the network’s live Arabic channel.

The territory’s civil defence agency confirmed his death, as well as that of Muhammad Mansour, an employee of the Islamic…

Sudan’s army has recaptured the presidential palace from rival paramilitaries and is pushing ahead to wrest full control of the capital, but analysts warn that the brutal two-year war is far from over.

In the early days of the fighting, the army-aligned government was forced to flee Khartoum, which army forces are now a breath away from regaining — the result of a counteroffensive launched late last year after a succession of humiliating defeats.

“This victory is a turning point as it redraws…