
The United Nations Security Council started negotiations on a French-drafted resolution to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and signal an intention to work on an eventual withdrawal of the UN troops. Council members were debating the draft resolution on Monday ahead of a vote of the 15-member council ...

At least 30 Palestinians, including four people reportedly waiting to receive humanitarian aid, were martyred in Israeli shelling across the Gaza Strip since dawn today, Gaza medical and media sources said, as air and artillery strikes continued for the 683rd consecutive day. Violent Israeli airstrikes targeted the eastern and ...