(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States military has launched dozens of air strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq in the first retaliation for a drone attack that killed three soldiers at a remote US base in Jordan.
“At my direction, US military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack US forces,” President Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday, referring to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Boris Nadezhdin, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, has submitted the documents needed to register as a candidate for Russia’s presidential elections in March.
The 60-year-old local councillor, who has promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, said on Wednesday that he had collected more than 100,000 signatures of support across 40 regions and submitted them and other documents to the Central Election Commission (CEC), which is technically enough to challenge President...
(BBC News) A judge in the U.S. state of Delaware has annulled a $55.8-billion pay deal awarded to Elon Musk in 2018 by the electric car company Tesla.
The lawsuit was filed by a shareholder who argued that it was an overpayment.
Judge Kathaleen McCormick found Tesla directors, who negotiated the pay package, were "perhaps starry eyed" due to Musk's "superstar appeal" and did not fully inform shareholders.
She said the deal was "unfathomable" and ruled it...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) President Joe Biden says he has decided on a response to a deadly drone strike on US forces in Jordan, but stressed he does not seek a wider war in the Middle East.
“Yes,” Biden told journalists at the White House on Tuesday when asked if he had decided on his response to the strike that killed three US troops at a military advance post near the Jordan-Syria border on Sunday.
The US president...
(BBC News) More than half of Gaza's buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the Hamas attacks of October 7, new analysis seen by the BBC reveals.
Detailed before-and-after imagery shows how the bombardment of southern and central Gaza has intensified since the start of December, with the city of Khan Younis bearing much of the brunt of Israel's military action.
Israel has repeatedly told Gazans to move south for their...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with Ministry of Defence officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported.
The SBU said late Saturday that five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the Ukrainian border. If found guilty, they face up to 12 years in prison.
The announcement, which...
(BBC News) Three US troops have been killed and dozens injured in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan's border with Syria.
President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by "radical Iran-backed militant groups.” He added: "We shall respond."
It is the first time that a strike has killed US troops in the region since Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
Jordan says the attack took place in Syria, not inside Jordan.
There have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Gunmen have killed nine Pakistanis in a restive southeastern border area of Iran, Pakistan has said, amid efforts by the two countries to mend ties after recent tit-for-tat attacks.
“Deeply shocked by horrifying killing of 9 Pakistanis in Saravan. Embassy will extend full support to bereaved families,” the Pakistani ambassador to Tehran, Muhammad Mudassir Tipi, said on X on Saturday. “We called upon Iran to extend full cooperation in the matter.”
Earlier...
(BBC News) Many countries — including the U.K., U.S., and Canada — have paused funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
It comes after the agency announced the sacking of several of its staff over allegations they were involved in the October 7 Hamas attacks.The UK government said it was "appalled" by Israel's allegations.
Australia, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany have also suspended funding to the UN agency.
Created in 1949, the United...
(BBC News) The UN's top court has ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, but stopped short of telling it to halt the war.
The highly anticipated hearing was part of a controversial case brought by South Africa.
South Africa had asked the court to order Israel to stop military action straight away pending a decision on whether Israel has committed genocide.
Israel has rejected the accusation as "wholly unfounded".
Friday's hearing at...
