Ukraine has struggled for months to replenish depleted forces, as Russian troops push ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front in the northeast.

The US, Australia and India are among Israel’s long-time allies that have objected to the mounting casualties and escalation in the Gaza war.

The Ukrainian president said his government will only accept a ‘fair peace’ to end the conflict despite the West’s calls for a quick solution.

The other two captives were identified as 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.

The alleged drone shoot down comes as the Houthis launch attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, demanding Israel ends the war in Gaza.

The pier was successfully anchored on Thursday, with around 500 tonnes of aid expected to enter the Palestinian territory in the coming days.

Russia’s weeklong offensive in northeastern Ukraine is setting alarm bells ringing in Kyiv as President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals rush to shore up their defences.

Israel denied it’s committing genocide in Gaza after South Africa filed a request at the International Court of Justice for a halt to Israeli military operations in the Palestinian enclave to stop what it called the destruction of Gaza.

Ely Ratner, US Defence Department’s chief for Indo-Pacific security, expresses “serious concern” in video link with Major General Li Bin of China’s Central Military Commission.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch a full-scale ground operation in Rafah in a bid to dismantle the remaining battalions of Hamas.

The US and other countries, fearing mass casualties, have tried to convince Israel not to attack Rafah. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s necessary to defeat the last of Hamas’s battalions.

A US$320 million pier is intended to boost humanitarian access to war-torn Gaza via sea. Dangers and uncertainties lie head for aid delivery teams as fighting surges.

Was it guitar-hero time? Or a tone-deaf attempt at wartime solidarity? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken garnered some mixed reviews in the Ukrainian capital after busting out his ’80s-rock chops at a Kyiv bar.

The leader was due to visit Spain and Portugal, but the visits are on hold as Kyiv faces what analysts describe as one of its most perilous moments in the war.

Celebrities who have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza are feeling the wrath of angry fans who are blocking them on social media platforms.

The United Nations clarifies a fresh breakdown of the death toll in Gaza, after Israel condemned the world body for ‘parroting … Hamas’s propaganda messages’.

Package including tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles. It is the first arms shipment after US President Joe Biden warned he may withhold arms to Israel over concerns about a Rafah offensive in southern Gaza.

Palestinians observe May 15 as Nakba Day, Arabic for catastrophe, to commemorate the expulsion of 700,000 Arabs at the time of the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed said the fundamental difference between the two parties was over the release of hostages and ending the war.

Blinken’s unannounced trip to Kyiv comes just weeks after US Congress finally approved a US$61 billion financial aid package for Ukraine after months of political wrangling.

Malaysia is “playing a dangerous game” as US attention over alleged illicit money flows is often a precursor to harsh measures if remediation is not quick and clear, analysts say.

David McBride’s leaks to the media led to revelations about Australian soldiers’ involvement in the illegal killings of unarmed Afghan men and children.

Israel’s prime minister said 14,000 of those killed in the Gaza war are Hamas fighters, playing down a civilian toll that has sparked global outrage.

Distracted by conflicts elsewhere, the international community has shown a distinct ‘lack of imagination’ and unwillingness to act more decisively in Myanmar for fear of sparking a US-China proxy war, researchers say.

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that US President Joe Biden’s administration does not view the killings of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel in its war with Hamas as genocide.

Israel’s Golan finished in a respectable 5th place at this weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest, despite pushback – so what do we know about the talented 20-year-old?

Russia’s defence ministry on Sunday claimed its troops had made deeper advances in the Kharkiv border region, ‘liberating’ a total of nine settlements over the weekend.