Hamdi Alkhshali - CNN International Field and News Desk Producer
Hamdi Alkhshali
CNN International Field and News Desk Producer
Hamdi Alkhshali is an award winning International Field and News Desk Producer for CNN's International Desk.
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Member of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units killed in blast at base, Iraqi army says
Apr 20, 2024
The Iraqi army said on Saturday that a command post at Kalsu military base, south of the capital Baghdad, had been hit by an explosion overnight, killing one member of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and injuring eight other people.
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN, as region braces for further escalation
Apr 19, 2024
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a move that threatens to push the region deeper into conflict. The target is not nuclear, the official added.
Iran launches unprecedented retaliatory strikes on Israel in major escalation of widening conflict
Apr 14, 2024
Iran has launched a wave of strikes toward Israel in retaliation for last week’s deadly Israeli strike on an Iranian embassy complex in Syria, in an unprecedented move by Tehran that could further widen the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Iran vows revenge as it accuses Israel of deadly airstrike on Syria consulate in deepening Middle East crisis
Apr 2, 2024
Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern conflict.
Israel moves to shut down Al Jazeera after new law allows for ‘security threat’ bans on international media
Apr 2, 2024
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network Al Jazeera following the passage Monday of a sweeping law allowing the government to ban foreign networks perceived as posing a threat to national security.
US assessing whether air strike against al-Shabaab in Somalia killed two Cuban doctors held by group
Feb 19, 2024
The US is assessing whether an airstrike against al-Shabaab in Somalia killed two Cuban doctors, as the terror group claims.
Three UAE soldiers killed in attack on military base in Somalia
Feb 11, 2024
Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force have been killed in an attack at the General Gordon military base in Mogadishu.
Netanyahu directs Israeli military to draw up plan to evacuate more than one million people from Rafah as offensive looms
Feb 10, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the military to plan for the “evacuation of the population” from Rafah alongside the defeat of Hamas in that southern Gaza city, his office said in a statement on Friday.
Iran launches missile strikes in northern Iraq and Syria, claims to destroy Israeli spy base
Jan 16, 2024
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday launched ballistic missiles at what it said was a spy base for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in northern Iraq, and at “anti-Iran terror groups” in Syria, in the latest escalation of hostilities that further risks spiraling into a wider regional conflict.
Iran-backed militia vows more attacks after US Embassy in Iraq comes under fire
Dec 8, 2023
The commander of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia is vowing more attacks on US interests in Iraq after the US Embassy in Baghdad came under mortar fire.
CNN Gaza reporter’s relatives killed and childhood home destroyed in two separate strikes
Dec 4, 2023
For weeks, CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman reported from Gaza as Israeli airstrikes brought devastation and despair to the besieged strip in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks of October 7.
USS Carney shoots down drones, responds to ballistic missile attack on commercial vessel
Dec 3, 2023
The USS Carney shot down at least three Houthi drones headed in the ship’s direction in the southern Red Sea on Sunday and responded to a distress call from a civilian commercial vessel that was fired upon by a ballistic missile, a US defense official said.
What we know about what Israel says it has found at Al-Shifa
Nov 20, 2023
Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, has become a flashpoint in the conflict that began when Hamas militants crossed the border into Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people.
Doctors race to save newborns as Israel says it’s battling Hamas around Gaza’s largest hospital
Nov 14, 2023
Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive in “catastrophic” conditions, the hospital director has warned, as Israeli firepower pounds surrounding streets and remaining fuel reserves dry up, leaving the facility unable to function.
Gaza becoming a ‘graveyard for children,’ UN chief warns as calls for ceasefire intensify
Nov 7, 2023
Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children,” the United Nations chief warned on Monday as the death toll rises and calls grow around the world for a ceasefire, one month into Israel’s assault on Hamas, the militant group that runs the enclave.
