All posts tagged: conflict

North Korea fumes over upcoming US-South Korea military drills | Military News

North Korea fumes over upcoming US-South Korea military drills | Military News

Published by Sam Flores

Pyongyang has accused the US of pushing the world ‘to the brink of nuclear war’. Published On 14 Aug 202614 Aug 2026 North Korea has denounced major United States-South Korea military drills set to start next week as a provocation that heightens tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The US-Japan-South Korea military cooperation is turning into a nuclear alliance, and North Korea will respond to a new level of threat with a new level of deterrent, a spokesperson for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday, according to Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Pyongyang routinely denounces military drills in the south as a provocation that heightens tensions. The drills – named “Ulchi Freedom Shield” – are due to start on August 17 and will last until August 27. They will incorporate exercises to counter drones, GPS disruption, and cyberattacks as the US and its allies adapt to North Korea’s evolving capabilities. “The US announced that the forthcoming exercises are quite different from the ones of the past …

Gaza City police chief killed as Israel pushes on with deadly strikes | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Gaza City police chief killed as Israel pushes on with deadly strikes | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

Latest Israeli attacks kill police official Jamal Abu Kamil in Gaza City and another person in Khan Younis. Published On 13 Aug 202613 Aug 2026 An Israeli drone strike has killed the head of the civil police force in Gaza City. Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said Colonel Jamal Abu Kamil, 43, was killed on Thursday when a drone fired three missiles at his vehicle on al-Rashid Street, southwest of Gaza City, also injuring two others. Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list The killing comes a day after Israel ended a weeklong pause in air raids on the strip. The pause did not see an end to deadly ground attacks, as Israel continues to violate a so-called “ceasefire” agreed to in October. The Israeli military said it targeted Abu Kamil to “remove a threat”, claiming, without providing evidence, that he was a Hamas commander. Gaza’s police force denied the claim, releasing a statement saying that Abu Kamil “committed to his police duties and has no connection to other activities”. Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said …

Will all-out war in Yemen reignite as the Houthis escalate attacks? | Houthis News

Will all-out war in Yemen reignite as the Houthis escalate attacks? | Houthis News

Published by Sam Flores

A series of Houthi attacks in recent weeks, which are among the deadliest in years, is raising fears that Yemen could be sliding back towards all-out war as conflict spreads across the Middle East. A 2022 truce led to the end of heavy fighting between the pro-Iranian Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, which had been ongoing since September 2014. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list But a series of clashes over the last month between the two sides – intensifying in the last two weeks – has led to civilian and military casualties and threatened to reignite the war. Here is what we know. What are the latest attacks? The Houthis have killed a number of civilians in a series of attacks on the government-controlled west coast port of al-Makha, also known as Mocha. There was also an attack on a commercial vessel in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, which Yemen’s coastguard said killed six people and injured 10 others. The Houthis said the vessel was carrying weapons. It followed the …

Palestinian women in Gaza face legal hurdles in divorce struggles | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Palestinian women in Gaza face legal hurdles in divorce struggles | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Sohair al-Bordani was displaced and living in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, trying to take care of her four children, as war raged all around her. And while she survived, her 10-year marriage has not. Al-Bordani, 30, explained that the arguments between her and her ex-husband had intensified since the war began in 2023, as the stress of merely existing in Gaza weighed down on them. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list But al-Bordani encountered a problem. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza – in which Israel has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians – has devastated many aspects of the Palestinian enclave’s administration, including its legal system. To get a court-ordered divorce, with the accompanying financial claims she would be eligible for, al-Bordani would have to go before a religious court and establish her case. She said that she initiated legal proceedings in February 2025. But, because of delays to the judicial process brought on by the war, the case dragged on. And so, al-Bordani chose the speedier option available to …

‘Platformicide’ of Palestine: Activists struggle to be heard on Meta | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Platformicide’ of Palestine: Activists struggle to be heard on Meta | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

Jerusalem-based journalist Faten Elwan has more than 300,000 followers on her Instagram account, a page which regularly covers events in Palestine and documents the Israeli occupation, but now her posts typically get just a few hundred views. In April 2026, Elwan was on a hike when she discovered her account had been unexpectedly reactivated after a two-month suspension, something she believes was due to her pro-Palestine content. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Her first story back on the platform was of her walk along the sea and reached 30,000 views. Within an hour, the number for later stories had dropped to a few hundred. She is one of many pro-Palestinian account holders who believe they have been “shadow-banned” by Meta, a technique allegedly used by social media companies to restrict the visibility of certain accounts, consequently limiting the number of people who can see their content. “People tell me: if we don’t specifically search for you and type your name, ‘Faten Elwan’, together, we can’t find you. I no longer exist,” she …

Iran rejects Trump’s claim to ‘control’ Hormuz: What’s the latest in talks? | US-Israel war on Iran News

Iran rejects Trump’s claim to ‘control’ Hormuz: What’s the latest in talks? | US-Israel war on Iran News

Published by Sam Flores

Iran has dismissed President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, saying the critical waterway will remain closed until the United States accepts its demands and changes its “behaviour”. According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, Mohsen Rezaei, the newly appointed secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told China’s ambassador to Tehran, Cong Peiwu: “As long as America does not change its behaviour and does not accept Iran’s conditions, the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened.” Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of global oil and natural gas is shipped during peacetime, has emerged as a key flashpoint in the US-Israel war on Iran, with peace talks stalled until the question of its management is resolved. Iran closed the strait shortly after US-Israeli bombing of Iran began at the end of February. (Al Jazeera) It currently says it is only talking to Oman, whose territorial waters the strait also passes through, about the future management of the waterway. …

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad and Atef Najib to death | Military

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad and Atef Najib to death | Military

Published by Sam Flores

Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and cousin Atef Najib have been sentenced to death after a court in Damascus convicted them of crimes against humanity during the country’s nearly 14-year civil war. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Saleh explains the latest developments. Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

What’s behind Trump’s shift to economic pressure on Iran? Will it work? | US-Israel war on Iran News

What’s behind Trump’s shift to economic pressure on Iran? Will it work? | US-Israel war on Iran News

Published by Sam Flores

More than 23 weeks into the war on Iran, United States President Donald Trump has signalled he would rather rely on squeezing Tehran’s economy than returning to a military offensive, as he had warned he might last week. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway now central to negotiations aimed at ending the war, remains disrupted by Iranian forces as a US naval blockade tightens its grip on Iranian ports. While Iran and Oman have said they are close to reaching an agreement on the management of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said the US is “only semi-negotiating” with Iran. Tehran has denied direct talks at all with Washington. So after months of expansive fighting, why is Trump turning to economic pressure over military force in this conflict? At the beginning of the month, US President Donald Trump had threatened attacks on Iran at levels ‘not seen since World War II’, but he has since cancelled them and reverted to economic tactics [File: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters] What has Trump said about changing strategy? “We …

Israeli forces kill one in Gaza as another body recovered from rubble | Benjamin Netanyahu News

Israeli forces kill one in Gaza as another body recovered from rubble | Benjamin Netanyahu News

Published by Sam Flores

Gaza Health Ministry says hospitals receive bodies of two Palestinians as Netanyahu rejects Trump plan to end war. Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026 Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least one person as Palestinian health authorities have confirmed another death after a body was recovered from beneath the rubble in the war-shattered enclave. Israeli forces shot and killed one Palestinian east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on Saturday, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported, quoting medical sources. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed on Sunday that hospitals had received the bodies of two Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks, including one recovered from the rubble. At least five people, including children, were wounded in Israeli attacks in the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah on Saturday, QNA reported. Local sources said several people were wounded when an Israeli tank opened fire on tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis. Among them was a woman who was critically wounded. A girl was seriously wounded …

What now as Israel rejects Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

What now as Israel rejects Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected United States President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza, saying that Israeli forces will not withdraw until Hamas is “genuinely disarmed”. “Israel rejects the 15-point document,” he said at a cabinet meeting, stressing that Hamas must give up all of its weapons before any pull-back. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Trump late last month announced a breakthrough in the US-led ceasefire framework, saying that Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza had accepted a phased plan under which they would surrender their weapons to a new Palestinian governing body, and Israel would begin pulling out troops in tandem with disarmament. Netanyahu, under pressure from his right-wing base ahead of elections, has seemingly hardened his stance after days of mounting criticism of the plan. So, what is Trump’s 15-point plan, and why has Israel rejected it? What is Trump’s 15-point plan? On July 30, the US-led Board of Peace proposed a 15-point roadmap for Gaza, detailing a phased, conditional framework for disarmament and reconstruction in the …