Pentagon admits 2023 airstrike killed civilian, not al Qaeda leader

Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon}     Defense &National Security     Defense &National Security   The Big Story  A year later, Pentagon admits ... Read More

US mistakenly killed civilian in 2023 Syria strike, Pentagon says

The Pentagon has acknowledged in an internal investigation that the United States mistakenly killed a civilian in Syria in a 2023 drone strike, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Read More

Bombing kills co-founder of Syria's main al-Qaida-linked group, once known as Nusra Front

According to the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor ... Syria is the country's last rebel-held territory. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham controls the northwestern Idlib province ... Read More

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a city along Gaza’s coastline, as Israel plans for a possible invasion into Rafah. The Chinese government did not say when the talks between the main Palestinian factions were held. Expectations ... Read More

Prominent jihadist leader in northwest Syria killed in suicide bombing

HTS rules over about half of Idlib province and parts of neighbouring Hama, Aleppo and Latakia. Read moreReporter's notebook: Idlib, the last ... to Syria in 2011 to transfer al-Qaeda's ideology ... Read More

Envoy Says US Is Determined to Monitor North Korean Nukes, Through UN or Otherwise

Envoy Says US Is Determined to Monitor ... a news conference in Seoul, using the formal name for South Korea. Thomas-Greenfield didn’t provide specific details about U.S. discussions with allies ... Read More

How South Africa's Former Leader Zuma Turned on His Allies and Became a Surprise Election Foe

How South Africa's ... allies, the Gupta family, were accused of influencing appointments to key cabinet positions in exchange for lucrative business deals. The allegations of corruption in ... Read More

World News Quick Take

A government agency that oversees cloud seeding denied that any such operations took place before the storm, although the nation often deploys the technology. “It’s most certainly not cloud seeding,” ... Read More

Middle East

Tank fire echoed from the Gaza strip on Wednesday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited an aid inspection point, where he heard from Israeli officials including Defense Minister Yoav ... Read More

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Russia has been losing its grip on the Rosenets Oil Terminal, near the port city of Burgas ... Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton ... Read More

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the country’s volcanology and geological agencies said. There were no reports of any deaths or injuries, but more than 800 people were evacuated from two villages on Ruang Island to the nearby island ... Read More

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Pro Palestinian demonstrators protest the war in Gaza and demand college divestment from military weapons manufacturers on the Auraria Campus in Denver on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Kevin Mohatt ... Read More