Category: 3. Middle East

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

Dec 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. military launched large-scale strikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on U.S. personnel, U.S. officials said.

A U.S.-led coalition…

US forces struck more than 70 Islamic State group targets in Syria on Friday in what President Donald Trump described as “very serious retaliation” for an attack that killed three Americans last weekend.

Washington said a lone gunman from the…

A growing vacuum has reportedly been felt in US-Israel relations following the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top aide, strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer, last month.

His absence is particularly felt as the sides…

The US says its military has carried out a “massive strike” against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Operation Hawkeye Strike was aimed…

By Simon Lewis

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that a new governance structurefor Gaza — made up of an international board and a group of Palestinian technocrats — would be in place soon,followed by the…

WASHINGTON — The US military launched a rare wave of airstrikes against dozens of sites believed to be associated with remnants of the Islamic State group across rural central and eastern Syria on Friday, in retaliation for an ambush in Palmyra…

An Israeli woman who reported having been kidnapped on Friday was extracted by the Palestinian Authority’s security forces from the West Bank city of Jericho, the military said.

The woman had called the police, saying she had been…

WASHINGTON — As mediators work to implement the next phase of Gaza’s fragile ceasefire, Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to leave the door open for a disarmament plan that would allow Hamas to retain some of its smaller arms while…