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Baghdad Orders Probe after Drone Targets Kurdistan President’s Home

File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP
File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP
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Baghdad Orders Probe after Drone Targets Kurdistan President’s Home

File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP
File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP

A drone attack targeted the home of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan Region early on Saturday, security sources said, in an incident that comes as tensions continue to rise across northern Iraq.

Air defences also shot down a drone near a Peshmerga fighters’ base in Duhok, the sources added.

The strikes come amid a surge in attacks on both Iran-aligned militias and Kurdish forces as the US-Israeli war against Iran spills over into Iraq, drawing in multiple armed groups and straining Baghdad’s efforts to contain the fallout.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani condemned the attack on Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani’s home and spoke with him by phone, his office said.

Sudani ordered the creation of a joint federal-Kurdistan security and technical team to investigate the incidents and identify those responsible, the statement added.

Iraq's military accused the US and Israel of carrying out some of the airstrikes on the PMF.

Tehran-backed armed groups have also launched attacks on US bases in Iraq and the US embassy.

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WHO: Attacks in Southern Lebanon Killed 9 Paramedics

Lebanese Minister of Health Rakan Nassereddine holds up a picture of an ambulance damaged in an Israeli air strike during a press conference at the Ministry of Health in Beirut, Lebanon, 28 March 2026. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
Lebanese Minister of Health Rakan Nassereddine holds up a picture of an ambulance damaged in an Israeli air strike during a press conference at the Ministry of Health in Beirut, Lebanon, 28 March 2026. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
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WHO: Attacks in Southern Lebanon Killed 9 Paramedics

Lebanese Minister of Health Rakan Nassereddine holds up a picture of an ambulance damaged in an Israeli air strike during a press conference at the Ministry of Health in Beirut, Lebanon, 28 March 2026. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
Lebanese Minister of Health Rakan Nassereddine holds up a picture of an ambulance damaged in an Israeli air strike during a press conference at the Ministry of Health in Beirut, Lebanon, 28 March 2026. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

The World Health Organization said on Saturday that nine paramedics were killed and seven others wounded in five separate attacks on health care in ⁠southern Lebanon.

The latest incidents ⁠struck medical teams in five separate villages, WHO Director-General Tedros ⁠Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a social media post.

He added that the repeated strikes have severely disrupted health services in southern Lebanon.

Four hospitals and ⁠51 primary ⁠healthcare centers are now closed, with several other facilities operating at reduced capacity, he said.

Lebanese Minister of Health Rakan Nassereddine said Saturday he will submit a comprehensive legal file to the Cabinet as a step toward lodging a complaint with the UN Security Council over Israeli attacks on the health sector.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, at least 1,189 people have been killed and over 3,427 others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Beirut's southern suburbs and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon since the start of renewed hostilities.

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Israeli Military Kills 15-year-old Palestinian in West Bank

File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Israeli Military Kills 15-year-old Palestinian in West Bank

File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

The Israeli military killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy near Bethlehem late on Friday, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank surges.

The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the 15-year-old boy had died after arriving at the hospital in a critical condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to Reuters.

The boy had been shot in the Dheisheh camp during an Israeli military raid, the Palestinian WAFA state news agency reported.

The Israeli military said a Palestinian was killed after soldiers opened fire during what it described as a "violent riot" in which stones were thrown at soldiers near Bethlehem. The statement did not identify the Palestinian killed or specify why Israeli forces were in the area.

It was the third reported Palestinian killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces on Friday. The WAFA earlier on Friday reported that two Palestinian men had been shot dead by Israeli forces.

The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since October 2023 when Hamas carried out its deadly attack on Israel from Gaza.

Since then, the military has tightened restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank, and launched raids that have displaced entire communities, while violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians has increased.

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Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Journalists

Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)
Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)
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Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Journalists

Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)
Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)

An Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon has killed three Lebanese journalists, Reuters reported.

Al Manar reporter Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni, from broadcaster Al Mayadeen, were killed when their vehicle was hit. Ftouni's brother, cameraman Mohammed Ftouni, had also been killed in the strike.

The Israeli military said in a statement it had "eliminated" Shaib, whom it described as a "terrorist" in a Hezbollah intelligence unit who had reported on the locations of Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. It accused him of "incitement" against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The military's statement made no mention of any other deaths and provided no evidence to support the assertion that Shaib was a member of Hezbollah.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun described them in a statement on X as "civilians doing their professional duty."

"It is a brazen crime that violates all treaties and norms through which journalists enjoy international protection in war," he said.

For his part, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam also stressed that “targeting journalists constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a clear breach of the rules that guarantee the protection of journalists in times of war.”

He said: “Lebanon, which holds press freedom and its role in high regard, affirms its commitment to protecting journalists and calls for respect for international law, the safeguarding of civilian lives, and an end to Israeli attacks targeting them.”

Also, Information Minister Paul Morcos said that “the targeting of journalists is repeated and deliberate,” and that what occurred “constitutes a documented war crime against the media and the journalistic mission.”

He added that the incident “adds to a growing record of attacks targeting media outlets and journalists,” noting that Lebanon has submitted to the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, a detailed list of assaults against journalists as well as health and medical personnel.