[ad_1] Updated Jan. 11, 2024 9:04 pm ET A U.S.-led coalition launched more than a dozen strikes on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen late Thursday, officials said, two days after…
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Iran Seizes Oil Tanker Linked to U.S. Sanctions Dispute
[ad_1] Updated Jan. 11, 2024 7:41 pm ET The Iranian Navy said it had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Oman that has been at the center of…
Somali Militants Take Hostages, Kill One After U.N. Helicopter Makes Forced Landing
[ad_1] NAIROBI, Kenya—Several people were captured and at least one killed Wednesday when a United Nations helicopter made a forced landing in a militant-controlled area of Somalia, according to reports…
South Korea’s Opposition Head Was Stabbed to Stop Him Becoming President, Police Say
[ad_1] SEOUL—The elderly man who stabbed South Korea’s opposition leader last week did so wanting to prevent the progressive politician from winning the country’s next presidential election in three years,…
Ukraine’s War Effort Is Stuck. This Heroic Battlefield Failure Shows Why.
[ad_1] By James Marson and Oksana Grytsenko Jan. 10, 2024 12:01 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The planners of Ukraine’s counteroffensive against the country’s Russian invaders last year…
For Fleeing Palestinians, Gaza Has Shrunk—by Two-Thirds
[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) Shadia Abu Middin had fled Israel’s war against Hamas twice. Then on Dec. 31, Israel told the 44-year-old mother of four in Gaza to…
Hezbollah Commander Killed as Israel Strikes Militants in Lebanon
[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) A senior Hezbollah commander was killed in Lebanon in what the group said was the second recent assassination by Israel of a militant leader…
Opinion | Give Yahya Sinwar the Eichmann Treatment
[ad_1] Two top Palestinian commanders—Hezbollah’s Wissam Hassan Al-Tawil and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri—were both killed over the past two weeks in suspected Israeli airstrikes. Hamas’s figurehead and the suspected mastermind of…