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Israel Launches Series of Airstrikes on Southern Lebanon

Israel Launches Series of Airstrikes on Southern Lebanon

SadaNews - Israeli warplanes carried out more than 15 airstrikes on targets in southern Lebanon on Friday. According to the official Lebanese news agency, the series of airstrikes targeted the Rufi'a Mountain and the outskirts of the towns of Sajad, al-Rihani, Aramta, and Jebaa. The area between t...
Syrian Media: An Israeli Patrol Incurs into Villages in Quneitra Countryside

Syrian Media: An Israeli Patrol Incurs into Villages in Quneitra Countryside

SadaNews - The "Syrian Television" channel reported today, Friday, that Israeli forces carried out two separate incursions in the provinces of Quneitra and Daraa in southern Syria. The channel stated on its website that an Israeli military patrol consisting of 8 military vehicles penetrated late Th...
Cambodia Denies Its Readiness to Deploy Rocket Platforms in Its Conflict with Thailand

Cambodia Denies Its Readiness to Deploy Rocket Platforms in Its Conflict with Thailand

SadaNews - The Cambodian National Defense Ministry rejected a Thai media report on Friday, claiming that Cambodia is preparing to deploy multiple rocket launchers of the type (PHL-03) in the ongoing border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. In its statement, the ministry denied the article pub...
Heigseth and his Japanese counterpart: China's actions do not serve regional peace

Heigseth and his Japanese counterpart: China's actions do not serve regional peace

SadaNews - Tokyo announced today (Friday) that Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his American counterpart Pete Heigseth agreed during a phone call to discuss security in the region that China's recent actions "do not help in achieving regional peace." The Japanese Ministry of Defense s...
U.S. Lawmakers: Israel Has Not Held Anyone Accountable for Attack that Killed Lebanese Journalist

U.S. Lawmakers: Israel Has Not Held Anyone Accountable for Attack that Killed Lebanese Jou...

SadaNews - Four U.S. lawmakers said on Thursday that Israel has not held anyone accountable for the attack carried out by the army in October 2023 against a group of journalists in Lebanon, which resulted in the death of a journalist from the Reuters agency and injuries to others. Senator Peter Welc...
Casualties in Myanmar Following Airstrike Targeting Hospital in Rakhine State

Casualties in Myanmar Following Airstrike Targeting Hospital in Rakhine State

SadaNews - More than 31 people were killed in an airstrike carried out by the Burmese military on a public hospital in the town of Mrohpaw in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, according to a field relief worker on Thursday. This comes as the military council intensifies its attacks ahead of the elec...
Venezuela Accuses Washington of Theft Following Oil Tanker Seizure

Venezuela Accuses Washington of Theft Following Oil Tanker Seizure

SadaNews - The Venezuelan government accused the United States of committing "outrageous theft" after seizing a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, affirming its determination to defend its sovereignty, natural resources, and national dignity vigorously, and it will approach internationa...
US House Approves Repeal of Caesar Act and Syrians Celebrate Lifting of Sanctions

US House Approves Repeal of Caesar Act and Syrians Celebrate Lifting of Sanctions

SadaNews - The U.S. House of Representatives approved yesterday, Wednesday, the repeal of the Caesar Act, which has imposed sanctions on Syria since 2019, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The vote was passed with a majority, and the new law requires the U.S. President to submit an...
Organization of Islamic Cooperation Strongly Condemns New Israeli Settlement Plans in Occupied West Bank

Organization of Islamic Cooperation Strongly Condemns New Israeli Settlement Plans in Occu...

SadaNews - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authorities' approval of the construction of 764 new settlement units and their announcement of a plan to establish 17 new settlements in the occupied West Bank over the next five years, as part of...
UN Commissioner expresses concern over the recurrence of atrocities committed in El Fasher

UN Commissioner expresses concern over the recurrence of atrocities committed in El Fasher

SadaNews - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, stated today, Wednesday, that he is very concerned about the recurrence of atrocities committed in El Fasher (Western Sudan) in Kordofan. Turk added in a press conference coinciding with the celebration of Human Rights D...
Mutual Announcements of Downing Dozens of Drones Between Russia and Ukraine

Mutual Announcements of Downing Dozens of Drones Between Russia and Ukraine

SadaNews - Russia and Ukraine continued to issue statements announcing the downing of each other's drones, with Russia today announcing the downing of 24 Ukrainian drones, some of which targeted the capital Moscow, while Ukraine claimed that its forces shot down 50 Russian drones heading toward its...
Congress Votes Today to Lift "Caesar" Sanctions on Syria

Congress Votes Today to Lift "Caesar" Sanctions on Syria

SadaNews - The U.S. Congress will vote today, Wednesday, on the final version of the amendment to repeal the "Caesar Act," which will become a law under which U.S. sanctions on Syria will be lifted permanently and definitively before Christmas. This was stated in a draft document prepared as part o...