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A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel’s intense bombardment of Beirut, Tehran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainty over whether negotiators can find common ground on a range of other differences. Hours after the ceasefire was announced — amid disagreement over whether it included a…

The last-minute ceasefire announcement in the Iran war was met with widespread relief across the Gulf on Tuesday night as the region braced for the worst amid the spiralling war of words between Washington and Tehran. But neither Iran nor the United States said when the ceasefire would begin, and that became evident on Wednesday…

The Israeli military has carried out a wave of air strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning, an indication that, for Israel, the US-Iran ceasefire deal does not apply to Lebanon, where it is fighting the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah. Air strikes hit the Tyre and Nabatieh areas in the south of the country, among…

Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program, its government said Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the U.S. The deportees will start arriving in Congo this month, the Congolese Ministry of Communications said in a statement, without further details…

An Israeli strike on an apartment east of Beirut late on Sunday killed a ‌local official from a Christian political party, sharpening internal divides over Hezbollah as Israel’s strikes expand to new parts of the country.Israel’s air and ground campaign in Lebanon over the past month has deepened fractures between supporters of Hezbollah and those…

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they have launched an attack targeting Israel, coordinated alongside Houthi backer Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The three allies “launched a barrage of cruise missiles and drones targeting several vital and military sites belonging to the Israeli enemy” on Monday, military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement. The Houthis, who…

The United States pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction of the second service member who hid deep in the mountains as Tehran called for Iranians to help capture him. The CIA looked…

Ukraine launched more cross-border attack drones than Russia in a one-month period for the first time since the start of the ongoing war in 2022, according to daily data published by the Ukrainian Air Force and Russian Ministry of Defense, which was analyzed by ABC News. Russia’s defense ministry reported downing 7,347 Ukrainian drones during…

Israel said on Friday it was being attacked by a new barrage of missiles from Iran, as President Donald Trump warned the United States had yet to begin “destroying what’s left” of the Islamic republic’s infrastructure. Israel’s military reported a new missile salvo from Iran on Friday, with its air defences operating to down them,…

Russia fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least five people and destroying a postal terminal, Ukrainian officials said. The attacks came a day after the Kremlin rejected a Ukrainian proposal for a temporary ceasefire over Easter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday he had had a “positive” call with US negotiators…