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Hamas leadership elections end without political leader selection, promises future vote

Hamas’s leadership race remains unresolved, with Khaled Mashaal and Khalil al-Hayya seen as likely contenders for the political chief role.

Hamas terrorists look on as they escort members of the Red Cross towards an area within the so-called "yellow line" to which Israeli troops withdrew under the ceasefire in Gaza City November 12, 2025.
US President Donald Trump listens to reporters at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 8, 2026.

US and Nigeria eliminate ISIS leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki in joint operation, Trump says

A gaping hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria after a suicide bombing, August 9, 2001

Fight for Second Intifada victims reopens with $655 million judgment against PA - interview

View of the damage caused by Hezbollah in Kibbutz Manara, on the Israeli border with Lebanon, December 2, 2024.

Oct. 7 sexual violence was patterned, documented, prosecutable, new report argues


WATCH: IDF kills Hezbollah terrorists responsible for fallen soldier in southern Lebanon

One terrorist was killed during the initial firefight on Tuesday, with the other killed in an additional operation, the military announced.

Soldiers from the IDF's Golani Brigade's 13 Battalion operating in southern Lebanon, published April 12, 2026.

WATCH: IDF finds Hezbollah weapons cache stored in Bint Jbail hospital, kills dozens of terrorists

The town holds a symbolic position within Hezbollah's organization as it was the location where the then-secretary general Hassan Nasrallah described Israel as weaker than a spider web.

Hezbollah weapons seized by the IDF's Givati Brigade after raiding a Bint Jbail hospital used by Hezbollah terrorists, published April 12, 2026.

Pakistani pleads guilty to planning ISIS-inspired Oct. 7 anniversary terror attack on NYC's Jews

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, had been charged with planning an ISIS-inspired attack on New York's Jewry on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan

Israel's pounding of Lebanon is 'deeply damaging', UK foreign minister says

Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot also condemned Israel's "massive strikes" on Lebanon, stating that the country must be included in a ceasefire agreement.

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper at the UN Security Council, New York, February 18, 2026; illustrative.

Costa Rica designates IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis as terrorist organizations

This was adopted "in accordance with Costa Rica's international commitments in fighting terrorism and its financing," the Foreign Ministry wrote on X/Twitter.

Costa Rica's president-elect Laura Fernandez speaks during a press conference with President Rodrigo Chaves at the presidential house, in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 4, 2026; illustrative.

Iranian-linked drone attack kills Kurdish couple in northern Iraq

It is the latest attack by Iran and Iranian-backed militias using drones and missiles on the Kurdistan region. Iranian-backed militias have launched more than 500 attacks since February 28.

Smoke rises from an oil warehouse on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, following a suspected drone strike on April 1, 2026; illustrative.

WATCH: IDF kills Hezbollah anti-tank terrorists operating from southern Lebanon mosque

The military also killed a Hezbollah terrorist who was monitoring IDF operations in the region, and killed additional terror cells, seizing their weapons, including explosives and firearms.

IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon, published April 7, 2026.

Israeli airstrikes kill several in Lebanon on Easter Sunday, as IDF raids Hezbollah cells

Meanwhile, IDF Arabic Spokesperson Col. (res.) Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation warning for Beirut's southern suburb of Ghobeiry on Sunday morning.

IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon, published April 5, 2026.

Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says

For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.

A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.

Why most Jewish Israelis back the death penalty for terrorists - analysis

Israeli voters can seemingly contradictorily support the death penalty for terrorists and still doubt that it would deter terrorism.

Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025