(BBC News) Russia launched large-scale drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's capital and other parts of the country early on Friday, officials have said.
At least three people were killed and 49 injured in the strikes, according to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The aerial raids targeted the capital, Kyiv, as well as the city of Lutsk and the Ternopil region in the northwest of the country.
Russia's defence ministry said the strikes were in response to "terrorist...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A series of Israeli strikes have targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, almost an hour after the Israeli army issued a forced evacuation order to residents in areas that it says held underground facilities used by the Lebanese group Hezbollah for drone production.
The attack on Thursday is the fourth time Israel has bombed Beirut since a ceasefire with Hezbollah went into effect in November. It...
(BBC News) Vladimir Putin said he will have to respond to Ukraine's major drone attack on Russian airbases, US President Donald Trump has warned.
Speaking after a phone call with the Russian president, Trump said: "President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields."
Russian officials declined to confirm this on Wednesday night, but Moscow had earlier said that military options were "on the table"...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Lee Jae-myung, the candidate for the opposition Democratic Party, is poised to become South Korea’s next president after provisional results of a snap election showed him on course for a comfortable win.
The election was triggered by former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December.
The 61-year-old Lee is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday, becoming the country's 14th president after defeating Kim Moon-soo of the conservative People Power Party (PPP). The South...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Officials say multiple military airbases deep inside Russia have come under drone attacks in a major Ukrainian operation ahead of peace talks due to start in Istanbul on Monday.
The Russian Defence Ministry said Ukraine had launched drone strikes targeting Russian military airfields across five regions on Sunday, causing several aircraft to catch fire.
The attacks occurred in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions. Air defences repelled the assaults in all...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran has rejected a report from the United Nations nuclear watchdog that alleges Tehran has increased its stockpile of highly enriched, near weapons-grade uranium by 50 percent in the last three months.
Iran said on Saturday that the accusation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was “politically motivated and repeats baseless accusations.”
It all comes as nuclear deal negotiations are under way between the United States and Iran, with the Iranian...
(BBC News) US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has warned of China posing an "imminent" threat to Taiwan, while urging Asian countries to boost defence spending and work with the US to deter war.
While the US does not "seek to dominate or strangle China", it would not be pushed out of Asia nor allow its allies to be intimidated, Hegseth said while addressing a high-level Asian defence summit.
In response, China has accused the US...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) ISIL (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Syrian army, representing the armed group’s first strike at government forces since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, according to analysts.
In a statement released late on Thursday, ISIL said its fighters had planted an explosive device that struck a “vehicle of the apostate regime” in southern Syria.
The bombing appears to mark an escalation by ISIL, which views the new government in...
(BBC News) President Donald Trump's administration can temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the US, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
The ruling put on hold a previous federal judge's order stopping the administration from ending the "parole" immigration program, established by former president Joe Biden. The program protected immigrants fleeing economic and political turmoil in their home countries.
The new order puts roughly 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump can keep collecting import taxes, an appeals court has ruled, a day after a trade ruling found the sweeping global tariffs to be illegal.
A federal appeals court granted a bid from the White House to temporarily suspend the lower court's order, which ruled that Trump had overstepped his power by imposing the international duties.
Wednesday's judgement from the US Court of International Trade drew the ire of Trump officials,...
