WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a rare move, is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ...

The Houthis began targeting commercial shipping on November 19, 2023, and claimed their first attack on a U.S. warship on January 9, 2024. In response, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2722 ...

A staff member with Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) holds a firing cable connected to an electronic detonator during demining ...

The Israeli military said Wednesday it launched a “limited ground operation” to retake part of a key Gaza corridor that ...

sraeli military Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir visiting soldiers in a buffer zone along the Syrian border on March 9, 2025. The conflict in Syria took a gruesome turn as reports emerged on ...

Egypt may have the Pyramids of Giza, but Iraq has the Ziggurat of Ur – an incredibly well-preserved engineering achievement that towers over the ruins of an important ancient city. Along a ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

open image in gallery Map shows position, path and arrival time of Cyclone Alfred (Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)) On Thursday, Alfred was 245km east of Brisbane ... cross in the middle of the ...

The City of Toronto ensures that tenants live in safe, well-maintained buildings through RentSafeTO, a bylaw enforcement program. Building owners must comply with the bylaws within the program or face ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock ... Feb. 28 at 2:59 p.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A convoy of vehicles carrying the bodies processed slowly through the streets, which were lined by thousands ...