Death toll from Israeli attack in north Gaza rises to four An Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has killed four people so far, local media reported. The strike hit an area in the vicinity of the Abu Hussein school.
Israeli army conducts major blast in south Lebanon town Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) has reported that the Israeli military carried out a large-scale detonation in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam. This comes after earlier Israeli strikes targeted al-Mansouri and the town of Sarbin in southern Lebanon, according to NNA.
Trump's 'Board of Peace' warns Hamas against flying kites The US-led board supervising a Gaza peace plan on Tuesday warned Hamas against flying kites, after Israel threatened retaliatory strikes. "All militant activity in Gaza must stop, including the flying of kites. We have conveyed this message directly through the established mechanism," an official on President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" said on condition of anonymity.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister says Hormuz remains closed despite temporary Oman deal Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said in a televised interview on Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed despite a temporary transit agreement with Oman. “America and other countries should know that the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened except through Iranian arrangements,” Gharibabadi said, adding that Iran remains “in a state of war”. Gharibabadi says Iran and Oman have held talks over the past 40 days on a transit arrangement through the waterway, agreeing on a temporary route seven miles (11 kilometres) wide, with the entry point and part of the exit route running through Iranian territorial waters.
Turkey won’t abandon Syria or let Israel draw ‘red lines’, Erdogan says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded on Monday to Israeli strikes on a Syrian military base last week, saying Ankara would not abandon its friends in the region and that no outside power could set the boundaries of Turkish foreign policy. Israel carried out several strikes on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in northern Syria, approximately 70km from the Turkish border, claiming that Ankara was preparing to deploy air defence systems there. Israeli officials have repeatedly said that the Turkish military's use of airbases in Syria would constitute a "red line," arguing that such a presence could restrict Israel's freedom of action in Syrian airspace.
Arms trade watchdog says countries are failing in their obligations to report weapons trade ATT Monitor team, the body charged with overseeing the global Arms Trade Treaty, condemned on Tuesday a lack of transparency around states reporting the weapons they are buying and selling. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013, the treaty aims to regulate the international flow of conventional weapons to stop their illicit trade. While its 118 member states are supposed to submit annual reports on their weapons imports and exports, just 46 countries - less than 40 percent - submitted their 2025 reports on time, Alexandra Marksteiner, a member of the monitoring team, told a press conference in Geneva.
Head of Kurdish forces in Syria announces their dissolution The head of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, announced on Tuesday the group's dissolution, as part of a deal struck with the new authorities in Damascus. "We announce today the end of the mission of the Syrian Democratic Forces and declare, with full responsibility, their dissolution as an independent military force," Abdi said in a televised speech at the presidential palace. The SDF was founded in 2015 and has spearheaded the fight against the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Turkey won’t abandon Syria or let Israel draw ‘red lines’, Erdogan says Submitted by Ragip Soylu on Tue, 08/25/2026 - 18:14 Erdogan suggests "moribund" Netanyahu is stoking tensions with Turkey to shore up domestic support This handout photograph taken and released by the Turkish Presidential Press Service in Istanbul, Turkey on May 24, 2025, shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) shaking hands during their meeting. (Handout / Turkish Presidency) Off Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded on Monday to Israeli strikes on a Syrian military base last week, saying Ankara would not abandon its friends in the region and that no outside power could set the boundaries of Turkish foreign policy. Israel carried out several strikes on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in northern Syria, approximately 70 kilometres from the Turkish border, claiming that Ankara was preparing to deploy air defence systems there.
Ending the war and preserving unity is our priority, says Iranian president Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that ending the war is the government's priority and the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) was not signed out of submission, but "out of logic and awareness". He added that Iran’s enemies realised they could not defeat the country militarily, so they focused on creating social problems and economic discontent, after the US announced what they described as "economic D-Day" of sanctions on Iran. Ending the war and preserving unity are priorities of my government, the Iranian president said in comments carried by Iranian media.
Three killed in Israeli bombing near Unrwa school in Jabalia camp Three Palestinians were killed and others injured on Tuesday after an Israeli drone attack in the vicinity of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) school sheltering displaced people in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wafa news reported.
Israeli air strikes target towns in southern Lebanon Israeli air strikes have targeted al-Mansouri and the town of Sarbin in southern Lebanon, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported on Tuesday. The NNA added that continuous artillery shelling by Israeli forces have caused fires along the Litani River and in the Marjayoun plains near the town of Deir Mimas, which Lebanese first responders are struggling to contain. Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 4,350 people have been killed in the country since Israel launched attacks on March 2.
Syria condemns Israeli minister's 'illegal' visit to country's south Syria condemned a visit by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday to troops in the country's south where he vowed to keep forces while "threats" persisted. Syria "condemns the illegal entry today of Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz and his crossing of the international border ... in flagrant violation of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity", a foreign ministry statement said, urging the international community to take "the necessary measures to force the occupying authorities to halt these repeated violations".
War on Iran: Left-wing luminaries behind Guardian letter have lost the plot Submitted by Hamid Dabashi on Tue, 08/25/2026 - 06:27 By equating the bombers with the bombed, the appeal signed by Angela Davis and Judith Butler lends moral cover to western imperialism - and its backers are already deserting it A man amid debris in a room in Evin prison's hospital after Israeli air strikes in Tehran on 1 July 2025 (AFP) On In an open letter published last week in the Guardian, addressed to "fellow activists, students, thinkers, workers, artists, and other prisoners of conscience held behind the walls of all detention centers across Iran", a group of renowned academics and activists resorted to the nauseating cliche of bothsidesism over the devastating war waged against Iran by two nuclear powers. One of the aggressors is still engaged in a genocide in Palestine and land theft in Syria and Lebanon , while the other is ruled by a corrupt psychopath. In prose replete with platitudinous tropes, all outdated and jaundiced, betraying an egregious ignorance of what exactly has happened, they denounce both the ruling government in Iran and the illegal Israeli- US war waged against a sovereign nation.
Israeli forces to remain in Syria-Lebanon border area, says defence minister Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israeli forces will continue occupying the Jabal al-Sheikh area (Mount Hermon) along the Syria-Lebanon border for “as long as there are threats” in order to “ensure our security”. During a visit to the area, Katz said that the forces “look down on Damascus, 35 kilometres away; look down on the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s stronghold; and, of course, watch over and protect the communities of the Golan Heights and the Galilee”, according to Israel National News. “The message is clear to the president of Syria as well: When you wake up in the morning in your palace in Damascus and look up at Mount Hermon and see the [Israeli army], you know that we are here to protect our communities and our border,” Katz said.
Trump says US removed all mines from Strait of Hormuz US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all mines within the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz had been removed or detonated, and that Iran had been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines would be "immediately and systematically destroyed". “There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social.
Israeli lawmaker smashes Palestinian memorial in occupied West Bank Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Tue, 08/25/2026 - 15:13 Zvi Sukkot used a sledgehammer to destroy the monument near Nablus, despite the Israeli army saying the demolition was not authorised People inspect the damaged Palestinian memorial at the Madama village in the northern West Bank on 25 August 2026 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) Off An Israeli Knesset member smashed a Palestinian memorial in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, prompting condemnation. Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer. In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain.
Israeli forces raid Unrwa centres serving 16,000 Palestinian refugees Israeli forces have stormed Unrwa vocational centres in Qalandiya and Kufr Aqab that serve about 16,000 Palestinian refugees across the occupied West Bank. The raids follow Israel’s assault on Unrwa’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem several months ago, when forces expelled staff and demolished sections of the building. Israel could intensify its attacks on the UN agency before October’s elections as far-right ministers press to dismantle Unrwa and other organisations serving Palestinians.
Israeli settler attacks in West Bank surge to 63 percent: Report Attacks by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank have surged to 63 percent during the first seven months of this year as compared to the same period in 2025, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. The commission recorded 4,113 attacks between January till July. During the same period in 2025, 2,524 attacks were recorded, showing an increase of 1,589 incidents.
US senators demand hearing over toll on troops amid war on Iran A group of 12 US senators have called for a congressional hearing into the toll the war on Iran is taking on troops, amid "poor planning and mismanagement of extended deployments". In the letter, led by Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, the lawmakers wrote to committee chairman Roger Wicker requesting a public hearing with Defense Department leadership regarding the poor management across naval ships and regional bases. The senators underlined "dwindling supplies and deteriorating conditions onboard numerous ships and across bases in the region" and accused military leadership of a "systemic failure of planning and adaptation".
UN calls for protection of civilians in Gaza amid Israeli attacks A UN spokesperson said that three UN warehouses were damaged in an Israeli air strike on Sunday, with one significantly affected. In a press conference on Monday he called for greater protection for civilians in Gaza, saying: "Civilians and civilian infrastructure, including humanitarian facilities, must never be a target, and must be protected". He added that greater aid should be allowed in to prevent further malnutrition of children after Israel has failed to provide the agreed upon amount following a ceasefire with Hamas in October.
