- Gaza Strip: IDF destroys kilometer-long Hamas terror tunnel in Rafah, finds explosives, blast doors
August 23, 2024
The IDF dismantled a one-kilometer-long Hamas terror tunnel in the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip, the IDF reported on Friday midday. Soldiers from the Southern Gaza Brigade, together with Combat Engineering Unit and Yahalom Unit soldiers located and destroyed a Hamas attack tunnel route in the Rafah area. The IDF further reported that in the ...
- Red Sea: Greek oil tanker on fire and adrift after multiple attacks of Hodeidah
August 22, 2024
A crew of 25 has been rescued from a Greek-flagged oil tanker after it caught fire after multiple attacks in the Red Sea. The Sounion was attacked by more than a dozen people on two small boats who fired multiple projectiles at the ship when it was about 77 nautical miles (143km) west of Yemen’s port ...
- “The Largest Landmine Field” and its Youngest Victims: Harrowing Tales of Suffering in Yemen
August 19, 2024
Seventeen-year-old Yemeni Muhanad Mubarak Al-Aqili lost his life after a stray shrapnel from a landmine explosion settled in his abdomen. Muhanad was returning home from school in Harib district when the incident occurred last year. In January 2024 alone, 17 people, including children, were either killed or injured due to landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in ...
- Israel: Man dies in Tel Aviv blast, authorities suspect botched terror attack
August 18, 2024
A suspected bungled terrorist attack killed a man in his 50s on Lehi Street in southern Tel Aviv on Sunday evening. Authorities believe the man was carrying an explosive device, which detonated prematurely. A 33-year-old passerby on an electric scooter was also injured by shrapnel and was taken to Sourasky Medical Center with limb and chest ...
- Israel: Two IDF reserve officers killed by roadside explosives in Gaza
August 17, 2024
Two Israel Defense Forces reserve officers were killed by a roadside bomb in central Gaza on Saturday, the military announced. The death of Maj. (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled, 34, a logistics officer with the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion, brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza to 330. Major (res.) Mordechai Yosef Ben ...
- Yemen: Suicide bomber kills 16 soldiers in Abyan province
August 16, 2024
A suicide bomber has killed 16 Yemeni pro-government soldiers and wounded 18 others in a military post in the southern province of Abyan, local authorities have said. The attacker “drove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces” in the Mudiyah district on Friday, said Mohamed al-Naqib, a spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council ...
- Israeli forces foil terror plan to strike Tel Aviv
August 15, 2024
A plot to carry out terrorist activities in Israel made by residents of the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva was uncovered by the Shin Bet and the Southern District of the Israel Police, and an indictment was filed against them on Thursday. During the month of July, the Shin Bet and the police jointly arrested several ...
- West Bank: Four IDF soldiers wounded in IED attack in Tubas
August 14, 2024
The IDF announced on Wednesday that four soldiers were wounded in Tubas in the northern West Bank after their partially armored David vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive. The IDF did not provide how many times this has happened, but it has already reported on several such instances in recent months, starting with a June ...
- Syria: Missile attack targets US airbase in Conoco gas field
August 14, 2024
A missile attack targeted a US airbase in Conoco gas field in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province, Syrian state media reported early on Wednesday. However, two US officials said the projectiles launched in the direction of a US airbase in a gas field in Syria did not hit the facility. Earlier, a security source told Reuters that ...
- Syria: Eight US Troops Treated for TBI, Smoke Inhalation After Attack
August 13, 2024
Eight U.S. service members were treated for traumatic brain injury and smoke inhalation after a one-way drone attack in Syria over the weekend, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The injuries were caused by a drone that struck Saturday at the Rumalyn Landing Zone in northeast Syria. The drone strike in Syria is the second time in ...
- Hamas document reveals devious paraglider terrorism attack plan
August 12, 2024
The Hamas terrorist movement’s use of paragliders as part of its mass murder of nearly 1,200 people, including over 30 Americans, in southern Israel on Oct. 7 was laid out in a methodical plan that Fox News Digital can disclose for the first time. A Hamas military plan obtained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in ...
- UNIFIL Chief of Operations inspects Chinese Peacekeeping Troops to Lebanon
August 10, 2024
Recently, French Colonel Peyrecave, J3 Chief of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), inspected the 22nd Chinese Peacekeeping Troops to UNIFIL and expressed his appreciation for China’s outstanding contribution to UNIFIL. Upon arriving at the camp, Peyrecave and his delegation were shown over ten types of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) equipment by the Chinese ...
- Yemen: YEMAC warns citizens not to approach cluster bombs swept away by floods in Hodeida
August 8, 2024
The Executive Center for Mine Action renewed its warning to citizens in Hodeida governorate and the rest of the governorates, against approaching mines, cluster bombs, and remnants of aggression that were swept away by the floods to separate areas. The center confirmed in a statement received by Saba that these remnants, which were washed away by ...
- Lebanon: Japan supports mine action in El Mechref in El Chouf District
August 8, 2024
Handicap International Federation (HI), to enhance community safety by clearing explosive remnants of war in El Mechref village, Chouf district. On August 6, 2024, Ambassador MAGOSHI Masayuki signed a grant contract with Mr. Aurelien Thienpont, Country Manager of HI. HI has been actively working in Lebanon to clear landmines, cluster munitions, and unexploded ordnance, in collaboration ...
- Iraq: Five US troops, two contractors hurt in rocket attack targeting the al-Asad airbase
August 6, 2024
Five U.S. service members and two contractors were injured when two rockets hit a military base in Iraq, U.S. officials said Tuesday, providing a bit more detail about the Monday strike. The officials said five of those injured were being treated at the al-Asad airbase and two were evacuated, but all seven are in stable condition. ...
- Houthi drone expert among those killed in U.S. strike in Iraq
August 5, 2024
A Yemeni drone specialist who had traveled to Iraq to train other Iranian-backed fighters was among those killed in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad last week, American and Iraqi defense officials said, illustrating the extensive cooperation among militant groups supported by Tehran. The July 30 airstrike in Musayib, a town south of Iraq’s capital, targeted militants ...
- Yemen’s Houthis claim first attack on container ship in two weeks
August 4, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi armed group says it has targeted a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden, claiming its first attack on shipping since Israel carried out an air strike in the port city of Hodeidah on July 20. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised statement on Sunday that the MV Groton was ...
- Iran: New details about Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran
August 3, 2024
The representative of the Palestinian resistance movement in Tehran has revealed new details about the July 31 martyrdom of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital. Speaking to The New Arab daily, Khaled Qaddoumi rejected the narration reported by The New York Times that the detonation of a bomb caused the incident, IRNA cited on ...
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