Settler violence: 60-year-old man among two Palestinians shot, eight beaten Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli forces, shot at and injured two Palestinians and beat up eight others during an attack in the al-Ras area of Hebron city on Sunday, Wafa reported. One of the shooting victims, a 60-year-old man, was shot in the back and hand. A second man, aged 46, was also shot before being detained by Israeli forces.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stressed the need to utilize the economic and commercial capacities of Iran and Tajikistan to develop bilateral relations.
Arab League condemns Israeli strikes on Lebanon as 'dangerous escalation' The Arab League has condemned Israel’s deadly strikes on Lebanon that killed 11 people and destroyed dozens of homes as “a dangerous escalation that threatens to derail any efforts aimed at resolving the ongoing conflict”. In a statement, a spokesman of the League said: "Israel’s policies and practices blatantly expose the occupation’s intentions to prolong the confrontations, obstruct negotiations, and impose a new reality on the ground that is completely unacceptable and rejected. ” The spokesman also warned that the conflict could spread unless the international community stops Israel’s “war machine” and compels it to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for a full cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s attacks on several areas of southern Lebanon, which killed 11 people, including three children and two women from the same family, and wounded several others.
Israeli defence minister Katz says 'no account will remain unsettled' Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said that "no account on any front will remain unsettled”, as his country carried out a series of deadly strikes in southern Lebanon, killing 11 people and destroying dozens of homes. “We will forcefully defend our soldiers and citizens,” Katz said in a post on X. Israel has also resumed strikes on Gaza, killing several Palestinians and wounding dozens.
Israeli forces incur into Syria’s Quneitra, fire flares A fire that erupted following incursions by Israeli forces in the town of Al-Rafid in Syria’s Quneitra region has been doused by local civil defence teams, according to the Quneitra Media Directorate. In a post on Telegram, the directorate said “the fire was caused by flares fired” by Israeli forces. Since 2024, when Israel moved troops into a UN-monitored buffer zone and seized Syrian territory there, Israeli military vehicles frequently push into villages like Western Samdaniyah in Quneitra and parts of western Daraa, conducting house raids and detaining local civilians.
Iran executed Shahram Sadeghi early Sunday after accusing him of security offenses and deliberately driving into police officers during protests in Karaj on January 8, the judiciary’s Mizan News reported.
Hamas delegation to hold talks on Gaza agreement in Cairo, report says Hamas political bureau chief Khalil al-Hayya is due to arrive in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported, citing Anadolu Agency. Al-Hayya will meet Egyptian General Intelligence Service chief Hassan Rashad to discuss issues tied to the Palestinian cause, chiefly efforts to solidify the ceasefire agreement, the report said. The delegation also includes Hamas Shura Council chief Mohammed Darwish, head of the movement abroad Khaled Meshaal, West Bank chief Zaher Jabarin, and Basem Naim, head of the Arab and Islamic Relations Office.
Several Palestinians injured as settlers continue attacks in West Bank Israeli settlers continued their assaults on Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank, injuring several people. Here are the details of some of these attacks, reported by Wafa. • Israeli settlers beat up three Palestinians and sprayed them with pepper spray in the al-Masoudiya area, on the outskirts of the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.
Iran and Oman defining a temporary route for now, Araghchi says Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi has reiterated that talks with Oman and reopening of Hormuz were “two separate issues”. In his comments carried by Shahrara News, he said: “Our negotiations with Oman are ongoing. That is a completely separate matter.
Houthis launch sixth ballistic missile at Marib city Houthis have fired a sixth ballistic missile on the Yemeni city of Marib, according to the Marib governorate. In a post on X, the governorate published photos of a crater in the ground as well as the mangled remains of a vehicle. The statement added that ongoing assault “threatens the lives of civilians, displaced persons’ camps, and residential neighbourhoods”.
Explosions heard in Lebanon's Nabatieh as Israel continues strikes Explosions were heard in the area between Ali al-Taher Heights and the Dabsha area in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported. Al Manar TV said the blasts were a result of Israeli air attacks in the area, while the Nabatieh Channel said the raids took place in the vicinity of the town of Kfar Reman. The attacks follow the killing of 11 people in a series of Israeli air strikes, the deadliest since a US-brokered ceasefire.
Doha [Qatar], August 16 (ANI): Qatar on Saturday (local time) categorically denied reports claiming that Iranian pilots were detained, stating that the allegations were misleading and came at a sensitive time amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to de-escalate regional tensions.
RIYADH, 16th August, 2026 (WAM) --Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has condemned the repeated hostile Iranian attacks targeting two tankers belonging to ADNOC while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Opinion: How a pragmatic axis could reshape the Middle East Nearly three years after the 7 October Hamas attack shattered the illusion of a manageable status quo - one serving US - Israeli interests, while harming Palestinian rights - and midway through President Donald Trump’s second term, the Middle East no longer maps neatly onto the two axes that have defined it for decades. The region’s fault line long ran between Iran ’s “Axis of Resistance” - comprising Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi armed groups, and a battered but defiant Syria under the Assad regime - and the Israeli-inspired “Pax Americana”: an informal architecture of deterrence, normalisation, and military primacy that Washington and Tel Aviv sought to impose through the Abraham Accords, blatant double standards, international law violations and overwhelming force. Today, a third pole could be emerging: an increasingly institutionalised “Sunni axis” anchored in Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad - with Doha, Cairo, and to a lesser extent Abu Dhabi at its edges.
Hamas chief heads to Cairo for talks ahead of Kushner visit Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya is set to travel to Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials, a Hamas source tells AFP, ahead of a visit by US President Donald Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner to the region. Hayya, who will be visiting Egypt for the first time since assuming leadership of Hamas in late July, is due to meet with Egypt’s intelligence chief Hassan Rashad this morning, the source says. Kushner will visit Israel and Egypt next week in hopes of bridging gaps on a Gaza plan rejected by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and will be accompanied by Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza of Trump’s so-called 'Board of Peace' tasked with implementing the deal.
The groups attacks are threatening a Red Sea shipping route that has become increasingly important amid disruption in the Strait of Hormuz Saudi Arabia has announced the formal launch of a multinational maritime defense coalition aimed at safeguarding shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as escalating hostilities with Yemen's Houthis threaten one of the world's most important trade routes.
Report: Drone strikes kill three Houthi fighters and wound commanders in southwest Yemen Yemeni government forces said at least three Houthis have been killed during drone strikes west of Taiz governorate, in the southwest of the country, according to the Yemen News Agency. The air strikes wounded several others, including field commanders.
Tehran [Iran], August 16 (ANI): Iran has strongly condemned the latest Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon that killed 11 people, including three children and two women from the same family, and injured several others, Tasnim News reported.
Israeli settlers injure five Palestinians in Masafer Yatta attacks Five Palestinians, including two women, two men and a child, suffered bruises and contusions when Israeli settlers attacked residents of Umm al-Khair village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported. Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamrehn told the agency that the settlers also hurled stones at a vehicle belonging to Imad Hawshiya, a resident of al-Markaz village, as he travelled along al-Zuweidin Road towards his home. Settlers also attacked the home of a Palestinian family in Wadi al-Rakhim, south of the nearby town of Yatta, and vandalised their property, according to Wafa.
