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Saudi Arabia Says Three Killed in Houthi-Claimed Attacks on Riyadh Airport

The Riyadh airport attack on Thursday, Oct. 8, killed three Saudi citizens, including an airline pilot, Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said. The authority said two attacks hit King Khalid International Airport, one on airport facilities and one on a Saudia Airlines aircraft. Yemen’s Houthi movement claimed attacks on the airport, but the Saudi statement did not say who was responsible. The deaths are the deadliest in the kingdom since Saudi Arabia and allied forces in Yemen launched a major offensive against the Houthis last weekend. What Saudi Authorities Have Confirmed About the Riyadh Airport Attack The General Authority of Civil Aviation said one attack hit airport facilities and the second struck a Saudia Airlines aircraft. It said several people of different nationalit...

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Yemen’s Government Announces Major Offensive Against Houthis as Fighting Nears Taiz and Bab el-Mandeb

The announcement comes weeks after the Houthis seized the Red Sea coast, as UN agencies report mass displacement and the group claims new strikes on Saudi energy sites. YEMEN — Yemen's internationally recognized government announced a major military operation on Sunday, October 4, 2026, aimed at retaking territory held by the Houthis, weeks after a Houthi offensive in Yemen put the Iran-backed group in control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Rashad al-Alimi, head of the Presidential Leadership Council, made the announcement from Saudi Arabia and called on the international community to support the government. The Houthis have held the initiative on the ground in recent weeks, according to Reuters, and have been pushing forward near the southwestern city of Taiz. The size, objectives and...

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3Oct By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Over 700 km Into East Sea

South Korea's military said a North Korea ballistic missile launched from the Wonsan area early Saturday flew more than 700 kilometres (435 miles) before landing at sea. The Joint Chiefs of Staff detected the launch at about 6:30 a.m. local time on October 3 and has since tightened surveillance in case further launches follow. Seoul has not said what kind of North Korea ballistic missile it was. The Joint Chiefs said they were analysing its specifications with US authorities, and Yonhap news agency reported that the military was weighing a medium-range or intermediate-range type. One South Korean government source told Yonhap it may have been an intermediate-range missile fired at reduced range, a reading that has not been officially confirmed. What South Korea and Japan have said ab...

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2Oct By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Russia Tells NATO It Is Ready to Use Nuclear Weapons If Kaliningrad Is Isolated

Russia has issued a formal Kaliningrad nuclear warning to NATO, saying it would be ready to use nuclear weapons if alliance members try to isolate the Kaliningrad region from the rest of Russia, according to a diplomatic note seen by Reuters and reported on Sept. 30. NATO replied in writing that none of its exercises or activities threaten Russian territory, and told Moscow to stop its nuclear rhetoric. Neither document had been published in full when this was written. What the Russian note says The note, which Reuters reported was sent to NATO, says Russia would be ready to use the full range of its forces, including nuclear weapons, to defend its territory should NATO countries attempt to cut off Kaliningrad. It accuses the alliance of a "dangerous and reckless course" that carries...

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2Oct By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Kyiv Southern Bridge Drone Strike: 2 Drones Hit Key Metro Link After School Attack

A Kyiv Southern Bridge drone strike on Thursday became the first drone attack on one of the capital's bridges since the full-scale invasion began, according to Meduza and the Kyiv Independent. It followed a drone hit on a school in the city's Solomianskyi district earlier the same day. Officials said children were sheltering when the school was struck, and no injuries were reported in either attack. The bridge matters because of what it carries. It crosses the Dnipro River, which divides Kyiv into eastern and western banks, and it carries both road traffic and Kyiv Metro trains. Reuters described it as a major link between the two halves of the city, which is why the transport halts that followed matter beyond the physical damage. How the day unfolded Morning: a drone hits a scho...

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2Oct By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Russian Barrage on Ukraine’s Energy Grid Triggers Emergency Blackouts in Kyiv

Kyiv went into emergency blackouts on Wednesday for the first time since spring, after Russia launched its largest combined missile and drone assault on Ukraine's energy grid in months. Ukrainian officials say seven people died across the country, and a key power plant near the capital was damaged. President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking during a visit to the eastern front, said one of the dead was a child and that critical infrastructure had been hit in five regions, with damage recorded in five more. Ukraine's air force reported intercepting five missiles and 155 drones, and air-raid sirens sounded for more than 12 hours. What went offline in and around Kyiv The state-owned producer Centrenergo said generating equipment at the Trypilska thermal power plant in Kyiv region was dama...

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2Oct By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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US Sends 9,000 More Troops and a Third Carrier to the Middle East as Trump Weighs New Iran Strikes

The US troop deployment announced on Thursday will send roughly 9,000 more sailors and Marines to the Middle East aboard a group of ships that includes a third aircraft carrier, a US official told the Associated Press. It arrives as President Donald Trump says new strikes on Iran remain possible, in a war that began in late February and has swung between ceasefires, talks and renewed attacks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military movements, and the reporting reviewed by HCN does not include an on-the-record Pentagon announcement. The group carries more than 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines. Other US media reports, summarised by CNBC and Anadolu Agency, put the figure at 9,000 to 10,000. What the US troop deployment includes The ships include the...

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30Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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How Seoul Built Its Case Against North Korea After the DMZ Blast, and What Is Still Missing

The DMZ landmine investigation into the 21 September explosion now rests on a few physical clues: where the blast happened, how large it was, what it left behind and what soldiers saw. South Korea's military says those clues point to North Korean mines, and Defence Minister Kang Shin-chul told lawmakers on Tuesday that their placement broke the armistice. Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rejected the conclusion on Wednesday, so the two governments now dispute evidence that neither has fully made public. The case is strongest on location and weakest on intent, and HCN's earlier report on the blast covers where the accusation began. What the DMZ landmine investigation has established The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the blast happened about 10 metres sout...

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29Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Iran Expects US Answer on Hormuz Ceasefire Plan That Trump Has Already Rejected

Iran's foreign minister said late Monday that Qatari mediators would present Washington with new ideas on meeting Tehran's conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and that a US response could reach Tehran on Tuesday. He made the comments to Iranian reporters in New York, two days after President Donald Trump publicly rejected the plan. The Strait of Hormuz ceasefire proposal remains the central issue between the two sides. No formal US reply had been made public when this report was written. aaj Abbas Araghchi said he had met the Qatari mediators again to discuss how Iran's conditions could be fulfilled, and that the mediators would take those ideas to the US side. He said he would leave New York for Tehran within hours. Communication through Qatari and Pakistani mediators had st...

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29Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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North Korea DMZ Blast Blamed on North Korean Mines by Seoul

The North Korea DMZ blast that wounded South Korean troops last week was caused by North Korean landmines, Seoul's defense ministry said Tuesday, calling it a violation of the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul told a parliamentary hearing that Pyongyang bears responsibility and that Seoul "will take corresponding measures." He said the military has response options and would carry them out in stages, without giving further detail. The blast happened on Sept. 21 inside the DMZ, the heavily fortified and mined buffer zone that has divided the two Koreas since the armistice was signed. Reuters, citing Kang, reported that two South Korean personnel were injured. Separate reporting from AFP and Euronews put the number at three troops, with one losing a...

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25Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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NATO Says It Can Handle Russian Sabotage as Denmark Warns of Rising Risk

Russian hybrid threats against NATO are likely to increase, Danish intelligence warned Thursday, hours after the alliance's secretary-general said NATO can handle the sabotage and drone incidents already spreading across Europe. Speaking at a ceremony in New York marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Mark Rutte said the rise in hybrid incidents shows Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine, now in its fifth year, and that sending more weapons to Ukraine remains the best response. "All the response options are there, and we will use whatever we need," he said, adding that citizens of NATO's 32 member countries can stay calm because "Putin is in a bad place." What Danish intelligence found The Danish Defense Intelligence Service released a new risk asse...

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23Sep By HCN Editorial4 Comments

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Trump Calls US-Iran Meeting at the UN ‘Very Good’ After Warning He Could ‘Annihilate’ the Islamic Republic

The Iran talks at the UN wrapped after three hours on Tuesday, Donald Trump told reporters, a strikingly calm coda to a speech in which he'd spent the morning threatening to erase the country entirely. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, the American president framed the nearly seven-month war with Iran as a binary choice. Iran could accept a deal and rebuild into, in his words, one of the greatest countries in the Middle East, or he could "annihilate the Islamic Republic" and give it no chance of recovery. He lingered on the second option rhetorically, then turned hours later to describe the day's actual diplomacy in far cooler terms. What the Iran Talks at the UN Actually Produced The substance behind the podium theatrics was a closed-door meeting between US and Iran...

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21Sep By HCN Editorial1 Comment

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US Warns World: Fuel an Iranian Airliner, Lose Dollar Access

Iran airlines sanctions are entering a new phase as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Monday that Iranian carriers could effectively be shut out of international operations from September 23 if foreign companies continue providing them with fuel, landing services or ticket sales. Speaking to CNBC, Bessent said companies that continue servicing Iranian airlines could risk losing access to the US dollar financial system. The warning does not mean Washington is physically grounding Iranian aircraft. Instead, it relies on pressure against the international businesses and aviation networks that help those carriers operate abroad. “When Iranian airlines land at an airport, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them ticket...

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19Sep By HCN Editorial1 Comment

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Kohat Mosque Attack Kills at Least 21, Including 15 Police, as Militant Alliance Claims Blast

The Kohat mosque attack on Friday, September 18, 2026, killed at least 21 people, 15 of them police officials, and wounded more than 100. An explosives-laden vehicle was detonated at a mosque inside the old Police Lines in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as prayers were under way, and gunmen then stormed the compound. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur-led Ittehadul Mujahideen claimed responsibility. Police said an operation to clear the compound lasted about 21 hours. What happened at Kohat Police Lines during Friday prayers According to Dawn's reporting, the vehicle exploded near the mosque and attackers then entered the compound and fired on police facilities. The provincial police chief, Zulfiqar Hameed, described it as a suicide bombing. The blast badly damaged the mosque, and an outer wall of the police...

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19Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Russia Ukraine Strikes Injure 19, Poland Issues Urgent Warning

Russia Ukraine strikes escalated again this week, with a missile and drone barrage on Kyiv and its surrounding region injuring at least 19 people overnight into Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Children were among those hurt. The same night, separate strikes hit Odesa and Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine's Air Force reported destroying or suppressing 131 Russian aerial targets before dawn. Kyiv didn't only absorb the hit. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces struck back overnight too, hitting an oil refinery in Yaroslavl - roughly 700 kilometers inside Russian territory - along with a military airfield in the Rostov region. Neither side is behaving like a ceasefire is close. Peace talks have stalled over territorial concessions in eastern Ukraine, and the latest round of Russ...

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19Sep By HCN Editorial1 Comment

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Yemen Displacement Djibouti Crisis: 112,000 Flee Coastal Fighting in Two Weeks

Yemen displacement Djibouti numbers have surged this week, with more than 112,000 people forced from their homes inside Yemen in just two weeks, and nearly 3,000 crossing the Gulf of Aden to Djibouti, according to United Nations figures released in Geneva on Friday. This wave of Yemen displacement toward Djibouti follows a rapid Houthi advance that has handed the Iran-aligned group control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline, tightening its grip on the Bab al-Mandeb Strait — one of the busiest shipping corridors linking Europe and Asia through the Suez Canal. The fighting pits Houthi forces against troops loyal to Yemen's internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government based in Aden. Saudi and Yemeni air forces have struck Houthi positions in response, even as the Houthis have escal...

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18Sep By HCN Editorial1 Comment

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War-Damaged Gaza City Tower Collapses, Killing at Least 20 as Families Held Funerals Wednesday

The Gaza City building collapse that leveled a six-story apartment tower overnight has killed at least 20 people and left dozens more trapped beneath the rubble in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood. By Wednesday, families were already burying their dead even as rescue crews kept digging through the wreckage with their hands, unable to reach everyone still calling out from underneath. The building, known locally as al-Saada, held four apartments on each of its six floors and had become home to roughly 100 displaced people, including about 50 children, according to the United Nations. Gaza's Civil Defense agency, which operates under Hamas authority, said the structure had already been cracked by an Israeli strike earlier in the nearly three-year war and had been structurally unsound ever sinc...

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15Sep By HCN Editorial1 Comment

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Russian Drone Strike on Pryluky Warehouses Kills 3, Injures 13

The Pryluky drone strike on warehouses in Chernihiv Oblast has left three people dead and 13 injured, marking one of the latest escalations in Russia's ongoing aerial campaign. Among the victims was a war-crimes prosecutor, raising fresh concerns about the scope and targets of these attacks. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said the strike hit the warehouse complex and sparked a fire that crews worked through the day to bring under control. "Russian forces struck the city of Pryluky with drones this afternoon," the agency said in a statement, adding that the fire had fully broken out at the warehouse building before it was extinguished. Chernihiv Regional Police, in an earlier statement carried by Ukrinform, said: "Russian forces attacked the warehouses of an agricultural company in th...

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13Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Saudi Arabia Pipeline Drone Attack Sparks Major Oil Export Crisis

The Saudi Arabia pipeline drone attack has forced the kingdom to shut down its critical East-West crude oil pipeline, and Iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation after confirming the strikes originated from Iraqi territory near the Iranian border. The strikes hit the pipeline, widely known as Petroline, on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 10, in the Riyadh and Medina regions, sparking fires and damaging pump stations along the route. The Saudi Energy Ministry said several people were injured and that the closure was a precautionary measure while emergency and technical teams assessed the damage. Satellite images captured in the days after the attack show black smoke rising from a section of the pipeline south of Medina and extensive fire damage at a pumping station. How the ...

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13Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Russian Strikes Ukraine Steel Plants, Killing Two, Injuring Six

Russian strikes Ukraine steel plants hit overnight into Saturday, killing two contract workers and injuring six others as missiles tore into two of the country's largest metallurgical complexes within hours of each other. The attacks hit the Zaporizhstal plant in Zaporizhzhia and the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih complex in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to statements from both companies. Neither plant was producing weapons or military hardware, the firms said, describing themselves as civilian industrial sites caught in a widening pattern of strikes on Ukraine's manufacturing base. How the Russian strikes on Ukraine steel plants unfolded At Zaporizhstal, four ballistic missiles slammed into the site early Saturday, wounding four employees and tearing into the plant's blast furna...

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11Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Pavlohrad Shopping Center Strike Kills 4, Wounds Over 60

The Pavlohrad shopping center strike was the deadliest of several Russian attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, September 10, part of a wave that also hit a mall in Sumy for the second time in two days, a US-owned food plant in Dnipro, and residential areas of Kramatorsk. By evening, authorities had confirmed at least eight people killed and more than 80 wounded nationwide, with several tolls still rising as rescue teams worked through the debris. A drone struck a shopping center in central Pavlohrad, a city in Dnipropetrovsk region roughly 75 kilometers from the front line, around midday, when the surrounding streets were full of shoppers. Ukraine's State Emergency Service confirmed by early evening that four people had been killed and 62 injured, including two rescuers hurt while respon...

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6Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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2 Palestinian Teens Killed in West Bank Village Raid

By dusk on Wednesday, September 2, the narrow lanes of al-Mughayyir were already familiar with soldiers and settlers moving through them. By nightfall, two of the village's sons - a teenager about to start 11th grade and a young man who had just graduated top of his class - were dead. Their killing, during a West Bank village raid that began as a dispute over stolen sheep, has become the latest flashpoint in a summer of escalating settler and military pressure on Palestinian communities northeast of Ramallah. Timeline of the West Bank Village Raid According to the Palestinian health ministry and local officials, the two victims were Omar al-Nassan, 19, and Khalil Abu Alia, 16. Accounts differ slightly on spelling and exact ages, with some outlets citing the surname al-Naasan, or Sheh...

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2Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Al Shifa Hospital Strikes Test Gaza’s Fragile Ceasefire

The Al Shifa Hospital strikes that unfolded this week in Gaza City are the latest sign that a formal truce has not stopped the wounded from arriving at the enclave's largest medical complex. Doctors there spent Tuesday receiving casualties from a burst of Israeli air and ground activity in the nearby Al-Katiba district, a reminder that the hospital remains on the front line of a conflict a ceasefire was supposed to have ended. A woman and two children were killed and eight other people were wounded, according to the hospital's director, while a separate incident east of Deir al-Balah left another child dead from gunfire, medical sources told the Wafa news agency - details corroborated by The National's on-the-ground reporting. The bloodshed unfolded on September 1, roughly eleven months...

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2Sep By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Israeli Raid in Gaza City Kills 4, Truce Frays

Gaza City, September 2, 2026 - An Israeli raid in Gaza City aimed at detaining a senior Hamas commander triggered a barrage of airstrikes on Tuesday that left at least four Palestinians dead, including two children, according to Gaza health officials and multiple international news agencies. The operation, and the bombardment that followed it, unfolded against the backdrop of an increasingly fragile, nearly year-old ceasefire that has yet to deliver on promises of reconstruction or a broader Israeli withdrawal. Timeline of the Israeli Raid in Gaza City According to accounts gathered by Reuters and corroborated by Gaza's Hamas-run government media office, an undercover Israeli unit entered western Gaza City on Tuesday with the specific goal of capturing a high-ranking Hamas figure. Th...

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31Aug By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Kyiv Drone Attacks Hit Day 4 as Russia Fires 2,000 Drones

Kyiv, Ukraine - Air raid sirens have barely stopped in Kyiv this week. The Kyiv drone attacks that began Wednesday stretched into a fourth consecutive day on Saturday, part of a bombardment President Volodymyr Zelensky said involved nearly 2,000 attack drones, more than 1,600 guided bombs and 31 missiles fired at Ukraine over seven days, according to a Telegram post he published on August 30. The toll from this round of Kyiv drone attacks is no longer abstract. A Russian drone that slammed into a military ammunition depot in the village of Myla, just west of the capital, has now killed at least 38 people - the deadliest single strike on Ukrainian soil this year, according to Zelensky and confirmed separately by Al Jazeera and the Kyiv Independent. Four people remained missing as of Sund...

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31Aug By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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2 Killed, Including Toddler, in Deir al-Balah Strike Near Bakery

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip - A three-year-old boy and a Palestinian man were killed on Sunday when the Deir al-Balah strike hit close to a bakery in the center of the Gaza Strip, according to health officials who spoke with Reuters. The strike, which also wounded several bystanders, adds two more names to a death toll that has climbed steadily in the ten months since a ceasefire was meant to end the killing - a toll HCN has tracked climbing past 1,280 in recent days. The child, identified by medics at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as Tayyem Hamdan, and the man, named as Hussam Nusair, were confirmed dead by Gaza's health authorities on the day of the Deir al-Balah strike. By the afternoon, Hamdan's mother and other relatives had gathered at the hospital in Deir al-Balah for his funeral; photo...

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27Aug By HCN Editorial1 Comment

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Gaza Ceasefire Point of No Return: Urgent Alert, 1,280 Dead

NEW YORK - Ten months after the guns fell silent over Gaza, the official Washington put in charge of preserving that quiet told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the process is approaching a Gaza ceasefire point of no return. Nickolay Mladenov, high representative for Gaza on President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, said a full collapse of the truce would not be a stumble the process could recover from - it would be, in his words, "a point of no return for everyone." The warning landed against a grim backdrop. Gaza's Ministry of Health has now tied at least 1,288 deaths and 4,290 injuries to Israeli fire since the ceasefire took hold in October 2025, according to figures cited by Al Jazeera - a toll that has climbed steadily even as the wider war has, on paper, been over for nea...

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26Aug By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Gaza Desalination Plant Strike Adds to Ceasefire’s Mounting Toll

Seven people were killed and several more wounded across the Gaza Strip on Monday, August 24, after Israeli forces carried out strikes on a mosque, a warehouse of aid supplies, tents sheltering displaced families, and a Gaza desalination plant strike that knocked out one of the territory's few working sources of clean water. The dead included two children, according to accounts gathered from the Palestinian news agency Wafa and reported by Al Jazeera and Democracy Now.The attacks unfolded in at least four locations. Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said the Israeli military had marked these sites with forced displacement orders shortly before the strikes began. Among the sites hit were the water desalination facility, a mosque, and a warehouse ...

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25Aug By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Zelensky Peace Plan: 3 Bold Ideas Agreed With the US

The Zelensky peace plan took clearer shape on Saturday, when President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had reached agreement with its American and European partners on a set of "key ideas" for ending the war with Russia. The framework centers on a ceasefire and a mutual troop withdrawal that would create a buffer zone in the east. The announcement, made during a briefing with journalists in Kyiv, is the latest step in a diplomatic process that has produced several drafts and counter-drafts over the past year without a signed deal. What's Actually in the Zelensky Peace Plan According to Zelensky, discussions with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have been consolidated into a single working document laying out what he described as realistic options for ending the fighting. "...

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25Aug By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Gaza Stabilization Force: Uganda’s Critical Bid Amid Crisis

Delegations from Uganda and Burundi traveled to Israel last week for talks on joining the Gaza stabilization force, the multinational mission the Board of Peace hopes will eventually field 20,000 troops across the territory. Uganda's parliament has already cleared the way for roughly 1,200 personnel. Burundi has sent senior officers to explore participation but has not yet signed on. The talks come at a moment when the broader coalition behind the Gaza stabilization force is still assembling itself piece by piece, nearly a year after the ceasefire it is meant to protect took hold. Two African Nations, Two Different Stages of Commitment The distinction between the two countries matters. Kampala's process is largely administrative at this point. With legislative approval secured ear...

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19Aug By HCN EditorialNo Comments

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Pechenihy Declares Days of Mourning After Deadly Missile Strike on Town Center

The Pechenihy missile strike has left a small town in Ukraine's Kharkiv region mourning its dead, after Russian forces hit the settlement's center on Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people as they went about the ordinary business of starting their week. Pechenihy, a settlement of a few thousand residents roughly 48 kilometers southeast of the city of Kharkiv, was struck at around 8:40 a.m. local time on August 18, when two Banderol-type missiles hit the intersection at the heart of the town. It is the kind of place that rarely appears on a map of the war: no strategic value, no front-line significance, just a post office, a café, a small shop, and the homes clustered around them. On Tuesday, that ordinariness is precisely what made the strike so devastating – the missiles landed as...

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