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EU Mission in Red Sea Says No Oil Spill in Area of MV SOUNION

FILE PHOTO: Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, which has been on fire since August 23, on the Red Sea, August 25, 2024. EUNAVFOR ASPIDES/Handout via REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, which has been on fire since August 23, on the Red Sea, August 25, 2024. EUNAVFOR ASPIDES/Handout via REUTERS
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EU Mission in Red Sea Says No Oil Spill in Area of MV SOUNION

FILE PHOTO: Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, which has been on fire since August 23, on the Red Sea, August 25, 2024. EUNAVFOR ASPIDES/Handout via REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, which has been on fire since August 23, on the Red Sea, August 25, 2024. EUNAVFOR ASPIDES/Handout via REUTERS

The European Union's mission in the Red Sea, known as Aspides, said on Wednesday there was no oil spill in the area of the MV SOUNION tanker that was targeted recently off Yemen's coast.

Aspides added that the Greek-flagged oil tanker was still anchored and not drifting.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday the tanker was still on fire in the Red Sea and appeared to be leaking oil.

Reuters couldn't immediately confirm that a spill or a leak had occurred.

The MV SOUNION was targeted last week by multiple projectiles off Yemen's port city of Hodeidah.

Iran-backed Houthi militants, who control Yemen's most populous regions, said they attacked it. The militias have been attacking ships in solidarity with Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. 

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Israeli Strike Kills Four Fighters on Syria-Lebanon Border, Security Sources Say 

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
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Israeli Strike Kills Four Fighters on Syria-Lebanon Border, Security Sources Say 

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)

An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing through a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three Palestinian fighters and one member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, two security sources told Reuters.

The car was not transporting weapons, the sources said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, to which one of the sources said the three Palestinian fighters belonged.

Local Syrian official Abdo al-Taqi told a Syrian radio station that a car was targeted on Wednesday morning on the road between the Syrian capital Damascus and Lebanon's capital Beirut, and four people were killed.

Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and other armed factions have launched rockets and drones at Israel from southern Lebanon. The groups have strong ties to Iran and to Syria's government and have transported fighters and weapons through the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.

Israel has not commented on the incident. While it takes responsibility for strikes it carries out on Lebanon, it almost never does the same for strikes it is accused of carrying out in Syria.

Israel has targeted weapons shipments and other military infrastructure in Syria for years and has stepped up its strikes there since October, when the Gaza war began.

Wednesday's drone strike came hours after an Israeli airstrike hit a pickup truck in northeast Lebanon near the Syrian border. A security source told Reuters that the vehicle was carrying military equipment, likely a damaged rocket launcher on the way to be repaired.