Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
US strikes back at Iranian-backed groups that attacked troops in Iraq and Syria: Pentagon
Digital Vision./Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. military aircraft have carried out strikes in eastern Syria against facilities associated with Iranian-backed militant groups believed to be responsibl...
Oct 27, 2023
State Department struggles to explain why American citizens still can’t exit Gaza
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- When Abood Okal, a 36-year-old American father trapped in Gaza, received word from U.S. State Department officials informing him the Rafah crossing into E...
Oct 26, 2023
Chinese fighter jet nearly collides with American B-52 bomber over South China Sea: US officials
yorkfoto/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A Chinese fighter pilot nearly crashed into an American B-52 bomber over the South China Sea during a nighttime intercept on Tuesday, according to U.S. Indo-Pacifi...
Oct 26, 2023
Dueling Russia and US resolutions on Israel-Hamas war fail to advance in UN
View Press/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dueling resolutions on the Israel-Hamas war put forth to the U.N. Security Council by Russia and the U.S. both failed on Wednesday, illustrating the cha...
Oct 26, 2023
Biden says he 'did not demand' Israel delay ground incursion due to hostages
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden said Wednesday he "did not demand" Israel delay a ground incursion of Gaza in an effort to protect hostages and keep humanitarian a...
Oct 25, 2023
US not ruling out retaliation against Iran-backed groups after attacks on soldiers in Middle East
U.S. Navy/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. retains the ability to defend itself and hasn't ruled out retaliatory operations after the Pentagon said American forces were attacked by Iran-backe...
Oct 25, 2023
27 dead after Hurricane Otis makes landfall in Mexico as Category 5 storm
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At least 27 are dead and several others missing after Hurricane Otis came ashore with record ferocity on Mexico's western shore early Wednesday, according to Mexican President An...
Oct 25, 2023
Sudan now one of the 'worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history'
AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- United Nations Humanitarian and Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths has said half-a-year of war has plunged Sudan into “one of the worst humanitarian nightmar...
Oct 25, 2023
Blinken backs Israel at UNSC but says 'humanitarian pauses must be considered' to protect civilians
State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy(NEW YORK) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday delivered a forceful defense of Israel's military actions but said that "humanitarian pauses must be c...
Oct 25, 2023
Israeli hostage released says she was kept in tunnels under Gaza
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- One of the two hostages released by Hamas on Monday, 85-year-old Yocheved Lifschitz, spoke with reporters from the lobby of the Tel Aviv hospital where she is bein...
Oct 24, 2023