Archives for August, 2024

Palestinians flee the Hamad residential district and its surroundings in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip after receiving a warning from the Israeli army to evacuate the area on August 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel expands evacuation order in Gaza’s Khan Younis, more than 75,000 flee

The Israeli military escalation comes only days before proposed cease-fire talks on Thursday, brokered by the US, Qatar and Egypt.

Health professionals have noted a rise in drug use in Israel since the war broke out in Gaza on October 7

Addictions on the rise in wartime Israel

Agence France-Presse

Displaced Palestinians gather in the courtyard of the school after the strike

'Children torn apart': Israel strike rains hell on Gaza dawn prayers

Agence France-Presse

Ethiopian Airlines is the largest carrier in Africa

Ethiopian Airlines signs deal for $6 billion mega airport

Agence France-Presse

A man cries inside a school used as a temporary shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, after a deadly Israeli strike

Gaza civil defence says at least 90 killed in Israel school strike

Agence France-Presse

School shelters across Gaza have been hit at least 14 times since July 6

Israel faces anger over Gaza school strike rescuers say killed 93

Agence France-Presse

A picture obtained from Iran's Fars news agency, shows an Iranian-made Noor (Light) ground-to-sea missile fired by the Islamic republic's navy on May 11, 2010 during military exercises in the Iranian port of Bandar Jask on the Sea of Oman.

Analysis

Iran's IRGC bolsters navy with cruise missiles amid flaring tensions

Capable of "sinking enemy destroyers," the missiles were added to the arsenal as the United States has been deploying advanced aircraft and warships to the region to fend off Israel against potential attacks by Iran and its proxies.

A correspondent in Tehran

By A correspondent in Tehran

In Tehran, reporting on politics

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on Aug. 9, 2024.

Interview

Harris replacing Biden on ticket gave Democrats expected bump from Arab Americans

Abed Ayoub, Arab American ADC grassroots leader, discusses why the Harris bump was expected, whether Jill Stein could be a spoiler in Michigan, why Tim Walz was a positive VP pick, and more.

Abed Ayoub

Abed Ayoub

National Executive Director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

The port city of Haifa hosts Israel's main naval base but it is the port's oil refinery and other highly flammable targets that worry city residents as Lebanon's Hezbollah group readies its threatened retaliation

'Extra-tense': powder-keg Israeli port braces for bombardment

Agence France-Presse

A cleric stands next to a poster depicting slain leader of the Palestinian Hamas group Ismail Haniyeh at Tehran's Palestine square on August 8, 2024.

Iran says Israel retaliation won't be to 'detriment' of Gaza cease-fire

As the region braces for Iranian retaliation against Israel, Tehran says its response will be conducted “in a manner not to the detriment” of a Gaza cease-fire deal.

Yahya al-Sinwar (C), Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, shakes hands with a masked fighter of Hamas' Qassam Brigades during a rally marking the 35th anniversary of the group's foundation, in Gaza City on December 14, 2022. Hamas will end talks on securing a prisoner exchange with Israel unless there is progress soon, the militant group's leader in the Gaza Strip said on December 14. Since Israel's 2014 invasion of the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group has held the bodies of Israeli so

Analysis

With its ally Haniyeh gone, how will Turkey approach Sinwar-led Hamas?

Hamas’ new political chief, Yahya Sinwar, is seen as hard-line and pro-Iran, which unsettles Turkey, but he is unlikely to turn the armed Palestinian group into a mere instrument of Tehran.

Barin Kayaoglu

By Barin Kayaoglu

In Ankara, reporting on geopolitics and national security

Foreign activists often join Palestinians for near-weekly protests against settlement expansion in Beita, in the occupied West Bank

US activist says Israeli forces shot him in West Bank

Agence France-Presse

Mohammadi urged Iranians to report abuses

Iran Nobel winner hurt in prison clashes with guards: family

Agence France-Presse

Fire engulfs the vehicle of a Hamas commander in south Lebanon after it was hit by an Israeli strike

Israel strike in south Lebanon kills Hamas commander

Agence France-Presse

Smoke billows during an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon

Lebanese on edge amid fears of all-out Israel-Hezbollah war

Agence France-Presse

Saudi security officers stand guard onboard a Saudi vessel docked off the seaport of Port Sudan on April 30, 2023, during evacuations efforts from Sudan. - Heavy fighting again rocked Sudan's capital as tens of thousands have fled the bloody turmoil and a former prime minister warned of the "nightmare" risk of a descent into full-scale civil war. Foreign nations have scrambled to evacuate thousands of their citizens by air, road and sea since the fighting plunged the poverty-stricken country into deadly tur

Sudan, US delegations head to Saudi Arabia for consultations on peace talks

Sudanese and US delegations will meet in Jeddah ahead of upcoming talks aimed at ending the war in Sudan as Washington pushes the military leadership to join the latest round of negotiations.