The US military, “in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria,” killed Abu Bilal al Minuki, a top Islamic State leader, and other unnamed commanders in an operation in northeastern Nigeria on May ...

Israeli military aircraft attacked an apartment building in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood on Friday, targeting Hamas’s military chief, Izz al Din al Haddad. The strike, if successful, would be the ...

Iraq Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi (left) arrives at the Council of Representatives for the vote of confidence on his new government. (Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office) On May 14, Iraq’s parliament passed ...

Magen 48 chief trainer Hofni Danin speaks to members of the Nir Oz civilian volunteer security response team on May 4, 2026. (Seth J. Frantzman, LWJ) In early May, in the Nir Oz community on the Gaza ...

Iraqi military officers during an operation in the desert southwest of Najaf. (Iraq Ministry of Defense) “If the circulating press reports about the establishment of a secret military base in the ...

Iraq’s parliament approved the new government six months after parliamentary elections in November 2025. Ali al Zaidi is now ...

Ali al Zaidi is now the prime minister, but key ministries remain unfilled amid disagreements between Tehran and Washington ...

On May 6, Israel conducted its first strike in the greater Beirut metropolitan area since the onset of a ceasefire on April ...

Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists continued to violate the Gaza ceasefire toward the end of April and beginning of May, ...

On May 5, Syrian authorities said that security forces dismantled a Hezbollah-linked militant network operating across ...

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al Zaidi (right) meets with Kurdistan Regional Government President Nechirvan Barzani (left) on May 4. PDKI said in a statement on May 6 that its camp at Girde Chal ...