Category: 2. Middle East

Houthis strikes on Israel prove without a shadow of a doubt that America’s air strikes on Yemen are a failure, Nasr Al-Din Amer, deputy head of the Houthi group’s media office, said yesterday.

In statements to Al Jazeera, Amer added: “As much as the destruction of our infrastructure pains us, it does not affect our military operations, and we will respond.”

He stressed that “the blockade on Umm Al-Rashrash [Eilat] Port will not be lifted, nor will it…

A US warplane plummeted into the Red Sea when trying to land on the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, a defense official said Wednesday, the second jet lost from the ship in just over a week.

The F/A-18F Super Hornet — which cost about $67 million — went overboard Tuesday due to a failure in the procedure for aircraft to catch a wire with a hook to help them stop after landing.

“The arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go overboard,” the defense official said.

“Both aviators safely…

A Hebrew-language report revealed yesterday that nearly 3,000 unexploded shells left by the Israeli occupation army in Gaza have become a vital resource used by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, to manufacture thousands of improvised explosive devices used to target Israeli tanks and military vehicles, according to Anadolu.

The Marker, the financial supplement of Haaretz newspaper, said that the number of unexploded Israeli shells in Gaza…

Irish Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Simon Harris said he is “deeply appalled and disgusted by Israel’s continued blocking of humanitarian aid into Gaza.”

In a speech at the Ireland Global Summit 2025 yesterday, Harris added that the conflict in the Middle East is a priority for him and the Irish government.

He noted reports by the World Food Programme (WFP) warning of food supplies running out inside the…

A ceasefire deal between Yemen’s Houthis and the US does not include sparing Israel, the group said today, suggesting its shipping attacks that have disrupted global trade and challenged world powers will not come to a complete halt, Reuters reports.

President Donald Trump announced yesterday the US would stop bombing Yemen, saying that the Houthis had agreed to stop attacking US ships.

After Trump made the announcement, Oman said it had mediated the ceasefire…

Hamas insisted Wednesday on a “comprehensive” agreement to end its war with Israel, as rescuers said Israeli bombardment of Gaza killed at least 26 people amid a growing humanitarian catastrophe.

A two-month ceasefire in the war collapsed in March, with Israel resuming intense strikes and imposing a total aid blockade on the Palestinian territory.

Israel demands the return of all hostages seized in Hamas’s unprecedented October 2023 attack and Hamas’s disarmament, which the group has rejected…

Yemen’s Huthi rebels will continue targeting Israeli ships in the Red Sea, an official told AFP on Wednesday, despite a ceasefire that ended weeks of intense US strikes on the Iran-backed group.

A day after the Huthis agreed to stop firing on ships plying the key trade route off their shores, a senior official told AFP that Israel was excluded from the deal.

“The waterways are safe for all international ships except Israeli ones,” Abdulmalik Alejri, a member of the Huthi political bureau, told…

UN experts demanded action on Wednesday to avert the “annihilation” of Palestinians in Gaza, as rescuers said Israeli strikes across the territory killed dozens of people.

A planned expanded offensive revealed by the Israeli military has drawn international condemnation, after UN agencies previously warned of humanitarian catastrophe in the Palestinian territory already devastated by 19 months of war.

More than 20 independent United Nations experts said the world faced a “stark decision” to…