Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 5th of February, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Qatari authorities have begun evacuating residents living near the U.S. Embassy in Doha as a precautionary measure, providing temporary accommodation for those displaced. The move follows a series of drone attacks targeting U.S. diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Dubai earlier this week, prompting the U.S. State Department to issue urgent warnings for American citizens to leave the region immediately, despite widespread commercial flight cancellations and airspace closures.
Millions of Israelis were sent scrambling into bomb shelters early Thursday as Iran launched a new wave of missile strikes, marking the sixth day of the widening U.S.-Israel conflict with Tehran. The escalation comes just hours after U.S. Republican senators successfully blocked a procedural motion that would have required President Donald Trump to seek congressional authorisation for the ongoing air campaign, leaving his war powers largely unchecked as the conflict spills over into new theatres, including the sinking of an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka and the interception of a ballistic missile over Türkiye.
The White House has clarified that deploying American ground forces into Iran is not currently part of the military strategy, as the U.S.-led air campaign continues to strike deep into Iranian territory. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that while options remain flexible, the current focus is on establishing "complete and total control" of Iranian airspace, with the Pentagon reporting a sharp 86% decrease in retaliatory ballistic missile launches from Tehran, allowing U.S. forces to progressively expand their strikes further inland.
The Israeli military has issued its widest evacuation order yet for southern Lebanon, instructing residents across an area comprising 8% of Lebanese territory to immediately relocate north of the Litani River. The directive follows intense cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah, which has fired drones and rockets deep into Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader. As Israeli troops advance into at least nine southern Lebanese towns and conduct heavy airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, the United Nations reports that nearly 60,000 civilians have already fled the escalating violence.
Thirty-two Iranian sailors are recovering in a Sri Lankan hospital after surviving a U.S. submarine torpedo strike that sank their warship, the IRIS Dena, in the Indian Ocean early Wednesday morning. Authorities have recovered 87 bodies from the wreckage, with search and rescue operations ongoing for approximately 60 crew members still unaccounted for. The surprise attack, which occurred hundreds of miles from the primary theatre of conflict in the Gulf, marks a dramatic expansion of the U.S. military campaign, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth describing the strike on the vessel in international waters as a "quiet death".
Kazakhstan will vote on 23 August in its first parliamentary election under the new Constitution, choosing 145 members of the new Kurultai under a ...
Syria says it assured Israel that Türkiye had no plans to establish a military presence at the Abu al-Duhur airbase before Israeli forces stru...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued his strongest warning yet over Türkiye's growing military role in Syria, saying Israe...
The collective-defence agreement between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signals that regional powers no longer want to rely solely on external security guarantees. Whether it becomes a stabilising deterrent or another axis of rivalry remains unresolved.
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed, according to the latest data, as uncertainty over the waterway’s reopening kept most shipowners away. Six commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, down from nine the day before and below the 10-day daily average of 11.
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains limited on Thursday, with no increase in vessel crossings as U.S.-Iran talks to resolve the conflict remained stalled. Nine commodity vessels transited the key waterway on Wednesday, unchanged from the previous day, according to Kpler data.
Iran has said the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S. fulfils the terms of an interim deal, including lifting the maritime blockade and sanctions and releasing Iran’s frozen assets.
Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 19th of August, covering the latest developments.
Kazakhstan will vote on 23 August in its first parliamentary election under the new Constitution, choosing 145 members of the new Kurultai under a fundamentally changed electoral system based entirely on party lists.
Five years after Evergrande's debt crisis rattled global markets, founder Hui Ka Yan has been sentenced to life in prison, marking a dramatic new chapter in the downfall of China's former property giant.
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains limited on Thursday, with no increase in vessel crossings as U.S.-Iran talks to resolve the conflict remained stalled. Nine commodity vessels transited the key waterway on Wednesday, unchanged from the previous day, according to Kpler data.
South Korea estimates North Korea possesses between 80 and 120 nuclear warheads, its defence minister said on Thursday, citing a range significantly higher than U.S. President Donald Trump's recent assertion that Pyongyang has 57 nuclear weapons.
Russian ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has killed at least sixteen people and injured more than forty others, Ukrainian officials said, with fires reported across the city and Poland activating defensive air operations.
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