Israeli forces fired at alleged Hamas targets in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to the Israeli military. “Army-owned tanks hit a military base of Hamas in the southern side of the Gaza Strip,” the statement by the Israeli army said, Anadolu reported. According to the statement the Israeli attack came shortly after a […]

Britain and its European Union partners clashed on Monday over which side should make the next move to unblock Brexit talks, despite concerns they will miss a deadline for a divorce deal and that London is heading for a chaotic departure.Prime Minister Theresa May made clear in speech she was to deliver to parliament that […]

The Kremlin said on Monday that talks with Saudi Arabia over Moscow supplying Riyadh with advanced S-400 air defense missile systems had gone well from Russia’s point of view so far.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, on a conference call with reporters, was responding to a question about whether a decision by the US State Department to […]

At least 14 Rohingya refugees, most of them children, drowned and scores more were missing Monday after their overloaded boat capsized in the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in Myanmar.Authorities in Bangladesh said the boat was carrying between 60 and 100 people when it overturned and sank in rough seas on Sunday night, […]

A top Republican lawmaker warned Sunday that US President Donald Trump’s impulsive threats against other countries could set America “on the path to World War III,” in comments capping an unusually hostile and public feud between the pair on social media.Bob Corker, who chairs the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed the president for running […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has decided to “drastically reduce” its presence in Afghanistan after a series of deadly attacks on its staff, the aid agency said in a statement on Monday.Monica Zanarelli, the head of delegation for the ICRC, told Al Jazeera that the decision will affect mostly the northern part […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to discuss the Catalan crisis and stressed her support for the unity of Spain while encouraging more dialogue, her spokesman said on Monday.Merkel also discussed the Catalan situation with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Reuters reported.“She spoke with both about the current situation in […]

Russia accused the United States on Tuesday of pretending to fight the self-styled Islamic State and of deliberately reducing its air strikes in Iraq to allow the group’s militants to stream into Syria to slow the Russian-backed advance of the Syrian army.In the latest sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Washington, the Russian Defense […]

The number of American airstrikes in Afghanistan hit a seven-year high in September as the military acted on US President Donald Trump’s new strategy for the country, according to the US Air Forces Central Command. The US used 751 bombs against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group and Taliban targets during the period, according to […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) began distributing 900,000 doses of cholera vaccine on Tuesday in Bangladesh’s camps for Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar, as authorities rush to prevent a major outbreak of the deadly disease.More than 10,000 cases of diarrhea have been reported in the past week alone, the WHO said, Reuters reported.Doctors in two […]