By Timour Azhari, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maya Gebeily
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, encouraged by U.S. messaging that Syria should be governed as a centralized state, eight sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Israel carried out strikes on Syrian troops and on Damascus on Wednesday in an escalation that took the Islamist-led... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -Russian air defences intercepted drones heading for Moscow in a series of attacks, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
Sobyanin, writing on Telegram, made no mention of casualties or damage in his accounts of air defence activity, but said 13 drones had been downed or destroyed after midnight. He said specialists were examining fragments where they had landed.
A tally of his posts showed 10 more drones were intercepted or destroyed in the... (continue reading...)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Another 10 hostages will be released from Gaza shortly, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, without providing additional details.
Trump made the comment during a dinner with lawmakers at the White House, lauding the efforts of his special envoy Steve Witkoff. Israeli and Hamas negotiators have been taking part in the latest round of ceasefire talks in Doha since July 6, discussing a U.S.-backed proposal for a 60-day... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa early on Saturday, setting ablaze at least one multi-storey apartment building and killing one resident, the city's mayor said.
Mayor Hennady Trukhanov said figures for the number of injured were being compiled.
"All emergency crews are working in enhanced mode," Trukhanov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Trukhanov earlier said that... (continue reading...)
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel has declined to renew the visa for Jonathan Whittall, the senior U.N. aid official for the occupied Palestinian territories, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday, adding there were intensifying threats of reduced access to suffering civilians.
Eri Kaneko, spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said visas for U.N. staff were recently renewed for shorter... (continue reading...)
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