GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas’ rocket-firing abilities. Flares li

Grabovo, Ukraine: A Malaysian airliner was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides. Ukraine accused "terrorists" - militants fighting t

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a UN request to halt hostilities for five hours on humanitarian grounds on Thursday, while efforts continue to broker a longer-term truce. The sides announced the temporary lull in fighting across the Gaza border after an Israeli s

GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israel resumed its air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after holding its fire in deference to an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks. Attacks in the Gaza Strip killed at least three Palestinians in the early hou

CAIRO: Arab League foreign ministers will meet in Cairo later Monday to discuss Israel’s deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has killed at least 172 Palestinians and wounded 1,230 in its seventh day. There have not been any Israeli fatalities. The Arab League meeting comes amid intense inter

Israeli soldiers from the Nahal Infantry Brigade walk across a field near central Gaza Strip. (Reuters photo) GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israeli naval commandos clashed with Hamas militants in a raid on the coast of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in what appeared to be the first ground assault of a six-day Israe

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 52 people on Saturday, including two severely handicapped women in a care facility, medics said. The toll made Saturday the bloodiest day yet in the five-day conflict, and hiked the overall toll to 157. The deadli

A doll lies amid the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike in Gaza Strip. (AP photo) GAZA CITY: It's the holy month of Ramzan, when people throughout the Muslim world meet with friends and family, buy presents for loved ones and break a day-long fast each evening amid co

Dubai: Israel’s prime minister says he will not cave in to international pressure to stop a military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Benjamin Netanyahu told a news conference on Friday that Israel will continue its offensive until rocket fire out of Gaza is halted. He says he has had “good convers

Jeddah: The world's largest Muslim bloc Thursday urged the UN Security Council to force a halt to Israel's air war on Gaza that has killed more than 80 Palestinians in three days. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, after a meeting of its executive committee in Jeddah, said it was forming a

GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza relentlessly on Thursday, causing a growing number of civilian casualties. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza, but Israel showed no sign of letting up. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ha

JERUSALEM: Israel significantly broadened its campaign against Gaza on Wednesday after Hamas fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in their biggest confrontation since 2012, raising fears of a major Israeli ground offensive. It was the most serious flare-up in and around the Gaza Strip since November 2

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 12 people on Tuesday and wounded 80 others, the emergency services said, as the military began an aerial campaign against militants in the Strip. It was the most serious flare-up in and around the Palestinian territory since Novem

JERUSALEM: Hamas unleashed dozens of rockets on southern Israel late Monday, setting off air raid sirens and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to stay indoors as the military rushed more forces to the border and warned that even heavier fighting looked likely. The latest violence came as

WASHINGTON: The US Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on US-bound planes at some overseas airports if the devices are not charged up, the agency said. The new measure is part of the TSA's effort announced last week to boost security amid c

Mandalay: Muslims in Myanmar’s second-largest city accused police of standing by as a Buddhist mob went on a rampage, torching a school and other buildings. Angry mourners, some carrying crude weapons, rioted in Mandalay after the funeral of a 36-year-old Buddhist victim of the country’s latest

CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 36 other Islamists to life in prison on Saturday, and confirmed death sentences for 10 others, most of them on the run. Badie, convicted of involvement in deadly protests, had already received death sentences in two ot

Marietta, Georgia:  Prosecutors say a man unhappy in his marriage exchanged nude photos with several women as his son died in a hot vehicle, in a criminal case that quickly gained attention across America. Justin Ross Harris, 33, faces murder and child cruelty charges in the death of his 22-month