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".
Tensions across the Middle East continue to escalate following coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory att...
A Russian drone damaged a civilian Panama-flagged vessel that was transporting corn near the Ukrainian port of ...
Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stori...
An evacuation flight operated by Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) carrying Azerbaijani citizens from Saudi Arabia has landed in Baku...
Australia and Canada said on Thursday they had signed new agreements on critical minerals as Canadian Prim...
Tensions across the Middle East continue to escalate following coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks in the Gulf region, with military operations and regional security developments continuing to unfold.
A Russian drone damaged a civilian Panama-flagged vessel that was transporting corn near the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk in the Black Sea Odesa region, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority said late on Wednesday.
Australia and Canada said on Thursday they had signed new agreements on critical minerals as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a landmark address to the Australian parliament, a sign of the developing bond between the "middle powers".
More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mines ministry said on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars "forever"; in a social media post late on Monday. The remarks came hours before conflict in Iran and the Middle East entered its fourth day.
A torpedo from a U.S. submarine sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth told reporters as the Iranian conflcit entered its fifth day on Wednesday.
Shahid Motahari Sub-Speciality Hospital in northern Tehran and parts of the Golestan Palace were bombed on day two of the U.S.‑Israel strikes. AnewZ Touraj Shiralilou is in Iran's capital city and said that the facility was flattened in an airstrike.
Türkiye has suspended day-trip crossings at its Kapıköy border and two others with Iran as regional tensions escalate following strikes involving the United States and Israel on Tehran. AnewZ's Alisultan Sultanzade was on the ground at the crossing before the restrictions came into force.
At least 42 people have been killed and 104 wounded in fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday. The latest death toll figures come as fighting between the two neighbours enters its sixth day.
A Russian drone damaged a civilian Panama-flagged vessel that was transporting corn near the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk in the Black Sea Odesa region, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority said late on Wednesday.
Australia and Canada said on Thursday they had signed new agreements on critical minerals as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a landmark address to the Australian parliament, a sign of the developing bond between the "middle powers".
More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mines ministry said on Wednesday.
A power outage struck most of Cuba, including Havana, the state electric utility said on Wednesday (5 March), as the Communist-run government grapples with increased pressure from the Trump administration that has curtailed oil shipments.
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