Families of children killed in a strike on Shajareh Tayebeh school in Minab, southern Iran, are still grieving six months after the attack, which killed at least 155 people, most of them children. AFP journalists obtained rare access to the school, where coll…
The International Maritime Organization said 68 incidents have been confirmed in the Gulf and neighbouring waters during six months of war between Iran and the United States and Israel, with at least 20 seafarers or port workers reported killed. The UN mariti…
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains far below its pre-war level six months into the Middle East conflict, while thousands of sailors are still stranded in the Gulf. Before Iran blocked the strait in response to joint US-Israeli strikes in February, a…
Six months into the US-Israeli war with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing questions over whether the conflict has improved Israel's strategic position. AFP cited analysts who disagreed on the war's outcome. Danny Citrinowicz, a former…
US President Donald Trump is facing falling approval ratings and criticism over the Iran war six months after the United States and Israel went to war with Tehran. Pentagon figures cited by AFP put US military losses at at least 18 service members killed and…
Six months into the US-Iran war, some Kuwaitis are questioning the presence of US troops after the conflict brought attacks and economic pressure to the Gulf state. AFP reported that Iran and its allies have carried out recurrent barrages against Kuwait since…
An oil tanker was struck and disabled by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz off Oman, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said early Tuesday. UKMTO said the tanker's master reported damage to the engine room and said the crew was safe. No…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham visited Kyiv on Monday in his first trip abroad since taking office, using Ukraine's Independence Day to show support for Kyiv as it fights Russia's invasion. Burnham was in the Ukrainian capital to attend a meeting of alli…
Gazan authorities said Israeli fire killed at least five people on Monday, including two children, in several incidents across the Gaza Strip. The civil defence rescue service, which operates under Hamas authority, said two Palestinians were killed at dawn wh…
The United Nations offered Monday to help facilitate fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping has been disrupted during the Iran war. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the aim was “to reduce immediate risks, support more orde…
Ukraine will give Britain access to an AI dataset containing millions of battlefield images under a deal signed in Kyiv on Monday by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the UK government said. The dataset, known as…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran had tried to kill one of his two sons, but gave no details about the alleged attempt. “Something incredible happened: Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill one of my sons,” Netanyahu s…
The United States urged the UN Security Council on August 24 to expand a United Nations arms embargo on Sudan's Darfur region to cover the whole country, saying outside support risks widening Sudan's war. US envoy Massad Boulos said Washington had put forward…
A new Gaza documentary called “NAZA” will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month and compete for the Golden Lion award, organisers said on Monday. The film is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the Oscar-winnin…
The Vatican's most senior diplomat began a visit to Russia on Monday aimed at maintaining dialogue with Moscow during tense international relations. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States, is due to hold talks Tue…
Israel refused entry to two Swedish members of the European Parliament who wanted to visit the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials said Monday. Jonas Sjostedt and Hanna Gedin, members of Sweden's Left Party, were turned away Sunday at Ben Gurion Airport, th…
Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in eastern South Sudan on Monday, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The UN Mission in South Sudan said unidentified armed individuals…
Ten Ukrainian prisoners of war who had been considered missing in action have been released in a prisoner exchange, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. Zelensky said the men were brought back through Belarus. He said they were servicemen from…
A mission to verify a fragile ceasefire between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group deployed to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, as the two sides traded accusations of abuses and ceasefire violations. The mission includes representatives…
Iran's central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said Monday that the rial's depreciation was temporary after the currency fell further on the black market. The rial has lost nearly 10 percent of its value over the past two weeks and was trading at more than 2…
The Kremlin said Russian forces were gathering intelligence to identify and destroy any Ukrainian facilities producing SCALP long-range missiles, after Britain moved to help Kyiv make the weapons domestically. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that…
South Korea said on Monday that the United States had cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month because the war with Iran had constrained US force availability. Han Seung-jeon, a spokesman for the South Korean Marine Corps,…
Yemen's Houthis said Monday that their forces hit a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile, claiming the strike caused a fire on board. The claim followed a report from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations that a tanker caught fire 6…
AFP, citing media reports, said the Greek military moved a Patriot missile interceptor system to Crete on Monday in response to Iranian threats to hit US military bases in Europe. The battery was reported to have been moved from the eastern island of Karpatho…
Oman's Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi will travel to Iran on Aug. 25 for talks that include the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's foreign ministry said. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said al-Busaidi would hold political consultations with Iran as…
Russian regional authorities said early Monday that debris from a Ukrainian drone attack fell on a private children's centre in Krasnodar, killing two children and wounding seven other children and two adults. Krasnodar regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev s…
Ukraine's allies pledged on Monday to keep supporting Kyiv despite Russian threats, with air defence supplies the main priority at a Coalition of the Willing meeting in Kyiv on Ukraine's Independence Day. The meeting brought together 30 leaders and was jointl…
Israel warned Hamas on Sunday that it would intensify targeted operations in Gaza and evacuate people from areas used to launch kites, drones and balloons toward Israel if the launches did not stop, while Hamas denied responsibility. Prime Minister Benjamin N…
Palestinian health authorities said Israeli gunfire killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, while an Israeli and a Palestinian were wounded in separate incidents. The Palestinian health ministry identified the teenager as Isl…
Norway will give Ukraine $9 billion next year, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Sunday, as Baltic and Nordic leaders gathered in Kyiv in a show of support. Store said Norway's support for Ukraine in 2027 would stay at this year's level, which he called a…
Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed three people on Sunday, including a four-year-old child, the civil defence rescue service said, while Israel's military said it had targeted a “terrorist” in one of the strikes. The civil defence, which operates under Ha…
Tuareg separatist rebels freed 22 Mali government soldiers on Sunday, a security source told AFP, in the latest of several prisoner releases linked to fighting in the country. A source close to Mali's ruling junta confirmed that about 20 soldiers were involve…
Russian e-commerce company Ozon said a drone attack caused a fire at a logistics centre in Makhachkala on Monday and preliminary information showed several people were wounded, as Ukraine continued a campaign targeting Russian logistics sites. Ozon said the w…
The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 armed group have agreed a roadmap for peace talks after Swiss-hosted negotiations, according to a joint statement published by Switzerland. The statement said the two sides set sequenced steps and timelines for neg…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has begun testing an alternative to Starlink with a European country, while Russia is trying to build its own equivalent with China. Starlink, the satellite system controlled by Elon Musk, is used for battle…
Iran executed Majid Adineh on Sunday after a court convicted him over January anti-government protests and the judiciary accused him of acting for groups linked to Israel and the United States. The judiciary's Mizan Online website said Adineh was convicted of…
Dozens of coordinated arson and incendiary attacks across Thailand's insurgency-hit south late Saturday wounded three civilians, damaged government property and disrupted part of a rail route, authorities said. Thailand's military Internal Security Operations…
Armed men killed 15 police officers in southwest Niger near the country's borders with Nigeria and Benin, local sources told AFP on Saturday. The attack happened on Friday and targeted a gendarmerie station near Tessa in the Dosso region, a former local elect…
Survivors and a Nigerian lawmaker said jihadists killed scores of civilians and kidnapped others during an attack around Friday prayers in central Nigeria's Niger state. Jibril Ahmad, a survivor from Dikera village in the Borgu local government area, told AFP…
An explosive device targeted a bus carrying Syrian Internal Security Forces personnel near Damascus on Saturday, injuring several passengers, Syrian state news agency SANA said. SANA said the blast hit the bus on the Maarounah–al-Tal road in Damascus countrys…
France promised to send new interceptor missiles to Ukraine as strikes in Ukraine, Russia and Russia-annexed Crimea killed at least 13 people overnight and through Saturday. The deaths included seven people in Ukraine, four in Russia and two in Crimea. The at…
Poland is fortifying its border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave with help from NATO allies, laying trenches, barbed wire and concrete anti-vehicle barriers as part of its Eastern Shield programme. Polish and German soldiers worked for five weeks on the fron…
Ukrainian officials said Russian drone strikes on a busy shopping centre in Kryvyi Rig killed 16 people and wounded 130 on Friday, including 23 children. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned what he called an “absolutely cynical and despicable strike” on an…
Russian strikes killed 18 people in two Ukrainian regions on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials, including 14 in Kryvyi Rig and four in the Mykolaiv region. Ukrainian officials said the toll from two Russian strikes on a busy shopping centre in the east…
China said Tuesday it would safeguard its own interests after the United States expanded its Iran sanctions campaign and warned of wider penalties against countries and entities that continue economic ties with Tehran. The US Treasury Department said Monday i…
Ukraine has sanctioned the Russian children's cartoon “Masha and the Bear” and people and companies behind it, creating legal grounds to block the series in Ukraine, Culture Minister Tetyana Berezhna said Friday. Berezhna said on X that Ukraine had imposed sa…
A suspect held in Romania after handguns were found near Berlin is one of two Ukrainian men arrested last October in a parcel-bomb plot case, a Romanian police source told AFP. Germany said the weapons were linked to planned attacks. German Interior Minister…
Two Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Friday, with Israeli forces shooting a 58-year-old man in Jenin and Palestinian officials saying settler gunfire killed a 17-year-old near Hebron. In Jenin, the Palestinian health…
Russia has arrested an unnamed foreign citizen accused by the FSB security service of trying to launch a surveillance drone over Moscow to help Ukrainian intelligence plan an attack on the capital, officials said Friday. The FSB said it detained the person in…
Finland has summoned Russia's ambassador and requested an explanation over a suspected airspace violation by a Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft, the foreign ministry said Friday. Finland's Ministry of Defence first reported the suspected violation on Thu…
Residents of Bandar Abbas, Iran’s southern trade hub on the Strait of Hormuz, are struggling to revive livelihoods after months of fighting in the war with the United States. The port city of about half a million people has been exposed to fighting even after…
Yemen's Houthi rebels said Thursday they used drones to target Najran Airport and an Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia's southern Najran region, near the Yemeni border. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Telegram that the group carried out two drone…
The Samaria regional council said Israelis began moving into the occupied West Bank settlement of Kadim on Thursday, making it the last of four settlements evacuated more than two decades ago to be repopulated. The council, which administers Israeli settlemen…
The Vatican expressed “serious concerns” Thursday about problems implementing a US-brokered deal between Israel and Lebanon after Pope Leo XIV met Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. The Holy See said it welcomed the signing of the document but was concerned abou…
Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Russian paramilitaries from Africa Corps killed nine civilians, including four children, during an operation in central Mali last month. The rights group said more than 100 Russian fighters, accompanied by several Malian…
Romanian officials said an F-16 fighter jet destroyed a marine drone near the Neptun Deep offshore gas project in the Black Sea on Thursday, and Romania’s president blamed Russia for the incident. Defence Minister Radu Miruta said the drone was loaded with ex…
A drone strike on Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, wounded at least 13 people on Thursday, including five children, a hospital official said, as tensions between Tigrayan and federal forces remain high. Birhanu Hailemariam, emergency ward coo…
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Thursday that Saudi Arabia would not be able to contain Yemen's Tehran-backed Houthis or remain safe from their attacks, amid increased rebel attacks on the kingdom. “Saudi Arabia will certainly be unable to contain Yemen and…
North Korea fired more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area on Thursday, South Korea's military said, hours after US President Donald Trump said he planned to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year. South Korea's Joint Chiefs…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia was escalating its four-and-a-half-year invasion of Ukraine with deadly ballistic missile attacks, and urged a global response after an overnight Russian attack killed at least 13 people. “While…
Ukraine is still training new paratroopers in parachute jumps and gruelling ground drills even as instructors and trainees say drones have made battlefield airdrops impractical in the war with Russia. At a training exercise in central Ukraine, instructors sai…
Gaza's Al Qarara Seed Bank is rebuilding its heirloom seed stocks from a tent in Deir el-Balah after its collection was destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023. The project, founded in 2017 with support from the International Committe…
Iranian officials are signalling a shift toward giving offensive operations a higher priority six months into the war with the United States, as diplomacy remains stalled and tensions over the Strait of Hormuz continue. Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei…
France, Italy, Britain and Germany urged Israel on Thursday to retract a major settlement plan in the occupied West Bank after Israeli authorities opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes in the E1 area. In a joint statement, the four governments said the dec…
Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has reshuffled Tehran's top security team, appointing veteran figures linked to the Revolutionary Guards to senior posts after several previous incumbents were killed in the war. The appointments, made on August 9 and 1…
Ukrainian authorities said Russian bombardment killed six people and wounded 24 in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into Thursday. The Kyiv city military administration said an attack in the capital killed five people and wounded 23. It said resident…
The United States expanded its Iran-related secondary sanctions threat to five new sectors on Monday, naming digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping as targets in Washington's economic pressure campaign against Tehran. “Treasury has issued det…
Russian bombardments killed at least 16 people in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said, as rescuers searched rubble and neighbouring countries raised air defences. Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said 15 people were…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said holding elections while Ukraine is fighting Russia would be too dangerous and could split the country, rejecting former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov's call to find a way to organise a vote. “I believe that in a…
A November Abu Dhabi music festival headlined by Shakira and a September 25 Christina Aguilera concert in the UAE capital have been cancelled. Organisers of the Offlimits music festival announced Tuesday that the festival was cancelled and said tickets would…
South Korea's defence minister estimated that North Korea has around 80 to 120 nuclear weapons, giving a higher range than US President Donald Trump's public statement that Pyongyang has 57. Trump said Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had “57 ve…
Gaza health officials said an Israeli strike on the municipal police headquarters in Gaza City killed nine people including a child on Wednesday, while the Israeli military said it targeted militants inside the facility. Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said it…
Yemen's government has warned that Houthi rebels are planning to seize land along the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a major shipping route at the entrance to the Red Sea. Information minister Moammar al-Eryani said the Houthis were "working to create the conditions"…
Ukraine's parliament approved Yevgeniy Khmara as defence minister on Wednesday, a month after a reshuffle that caused public backlash over the dismissal of his predecessor Mykhailo Fedorov. Lawmakers voted 312 in favour of Khmara's appointment and two against…
The family of Hind Rajab has no faith in an Israeli military criminal investigation into the five-year-old's killing in Gaza, her grandmother told AFP, calling the probe an attempt to justify her death. Rajab's body was recovered from a bullet-riddled car in…
Russia and Ukraine each handed over 103 captured soldiers on Wednesday, both countries said, in the latest prisoner exchange between the warring sides. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 103 Ukrainian soldiers were returning from Russian captivity. He said tho…
Drone attacks in Russia and Ukraine killed eight people on Wednesday, authorities on both sides said, including four people in a minibus in the frontline Ukrainian city of Kherson. Ukraine's prosecutor's office said a Russian drone hit the Kherson minibus, ki…
Iran's armed forces warned Gulf countries on Wednesday not to assist the US military, hours after the United Arab Emirates said it was halting economic dealings with Tehran over what Abu Dhabi described as Iranian missile attacks on shipping. Armed forces chi…
Families in Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa are pleading for sons and husbands to return from Russia's war against Ukraine, saying some men were misled into joining as authorities warn recruiters remain active. Zimbabwean mother Rodwin Chitewere said her…
Iran's main trade partners face exposure to US President Donald Trump's threat of “economic warfare” against Tehran, with China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iraq among the countries with the largest trade links. Trump has threatened any country that…
"American Doctor," a documentary about three American doctors working in Gaza hospitals during Israel's military response to the October 2023 Hamas attack, is due to open in select US theaters on Aug. 21 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Directo…
Israel's military said Tuesday that security forces marked Palestinians who were questioned during a raid in Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank, after footage on social media drew criticism. The military said the markings were made during a brigade-level oper…
Moscow-installed authorities said a Ukrainian drone strike hit a transport stop in Enerhodar on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding 17 others, most of them workers at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The Russian-installed management…
Israel's military said Tuesday it had repatriated the remains of Sgt First Class Yehuda Katz, an Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon in 1982, in a joint operation with the Mossad intelligence agency. The military said Katz was the last Israeli soldier declared…
Donaustahl chief Stefan Thumann says he has been living in hiding for months after German officials warned him in late 2025 of an alleged Russian intelligence plan to assassinate him. Thumann, whose German defence startup supplies attack drones to Ukraine, to…
Gaza health officials said an Israeli airstrike killed six people at Gaza City's port on Tuesday, including a child, while the Israeli army said it had targeted several Hamas commanders. Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for Gaza's civil defence agency, which op…
The United Arab Emirates' suspension of trade and financial dealings with Iran has cut into one of Tehran's most important economic links, with the UAE accounting for roughly $21 billion of Iran's imports in 2024. The UAE announced this week that it was halti…
Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations to keep an international peacekeeping force in Lebanon after UNIFIL's current mandate ends on December 31, 2026. UNIFIL has about 7,500 personnel from nearly 50 countries and has operated in southern Lebanon sin…
Several tons of nuclear material found at an undeclared site in Syria will be put under international safeguards, International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said during a visit to Damascus. Grossi said IAEA inspectors had found “a few tons” of nucl…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot held talks in an underground bomb shelter in Kyiv on Tuesday after an air alert sounded in the capital. Sybiga said on social media that the meeting was moved underground “due…
Germany opened a new drone defence research centre on Tuesday after an explosives-laden drone was found at Leipzig airport and suspicious drone sightings multiplied over critical infrastructure. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the centre would stren…
Syrian authorities said Tuesday that security forces and unnamed international partners arrested Hamza Abdullah Mohammad, an Islamic State commander also known as Abu Jihad al-Muhajir, near Manbij in Aleppo province. Syria's interior ministry described Mohamm…
Only 3% of Gaza's cropland remains accessible and undamaged, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization warned Tuesday, citing an analysis of satellite images. The FAO said accessible and undamaged cropland had fallen to 448 hectares from 601 hectares since O…
A Plateau state lawmaker said 25 people were killed after attackers armed with guns and machetes struck Bin-Per village in central Nigeria on Monday night, while survivors earlier gave a toll of at least 24. Mathew Joseph, a resident of Bin-Per in Mangu local…
Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday ordered 2,177 children with parents, guardians or legal representatives to leave 16 settlements east of Dnipro in the centre-east Dnipropetrovsk region. Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional military administration, said the…
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they targeted an Aramco oil refinery in Jazan on Saudi Arabia's southern Red Sea coast with several drones on Tuesday, Houthi news agency Saba reported. Saba cited a Houthi military source as saying the claimed attack was a respo…
A strike on Pechenigy in northeast Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed 10 people and wounded 18, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, blaming Russian forces. Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said Russian forces carried out a rocket strike on the village, abo…
Japan will test hypersonic missiles and other projectiles in Australia under a new defence arrangement, the two countries' defence ministers said on August 18 as they expanded military cooperation. Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles, speaking in Canbe…
A swarm of 620 drones flew towards the Moscow region overnight, Russian officials said on Tuesday, reporting that three people were wounded and buildings were struck. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the state-backed MAX platform that Russian air defences…
Scaled-back annual war games between South Korea and the United States ended on Friday, Seoul's military said, days earlier than initially planned after US President Donald Trump ordered them curtailed. A Seoul military official said the joint drills “have en…
Iranian fishermen around the Strait of Hormuz have returned to sea after months of fighting between Iran and the United States disrupted their work, despite fears that clashes could resume. Mohammad-Amin, a 47-year-old fisherman in Bandar Abbas, said he had b…
Russia warned Britain on Monday that it would pay a "price" after the Sunday Times reported that UK-made drones supplied to Ukraine had been used in strikes deep inside Russia. The newspaper reported that drones produced by two British companies had been used…
An unknown projectile struck a vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, damaging its engine room and causing a crew casualty, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said. UKMTO said the remaining crew were being assisted by the Omani Co…
Suspected jihadists killed around 30 people during Friday Islamic prayers last week in northwest Nigeria's Sokoto state, local sources told AFP. Shamsuddeen Mai Akwai, secretary of the Kebbe local government council, said Monday that the attackers were suspec…
Palestinian-American homeowner Louai Abu Ridi raised a US flag outside his house in Qusra, near Nablus, after returning from Ohio to a property that residents say Israeli settlers have besieged for more than a week. Abu Ridi owns one of three houses affected…
Supporters of Iranian graphic designers Aria Kasaei and Elly Naghilou said Iran has held the two artists in prison since they met two French diplomats in Tehran in July, adding a new dispute to a case that has strained relations between Paris and Tehran. The…
Yemen's Houthi rebels said Monday they targeted a Saudi military landing ship and four accompanying patrol boats in the Red Sea off the coast of Mokha with ballistic missiles. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the Iran-backed group carried out the…
Somalia's federal government said its forces killed nearly 30 militants after troops loyal to ousted South West State leader Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen attacked army positions in Baidoa on Monday. The government said the assault on the state capital…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned Monday that escalating hostilities and a rising civilian toll in Yemen risk pushing the country back into full-scale conflict. Turk urged all parties to de-escalate, spare civilians and immediately halt…
Ukrainian badminton player Polina Buhrova said competing at the world championships in New Delhi was a show of defiance, and criticised the participation of Russian players under a neutral flag. Buhrova and her doubles partner Yevheniia Kantemyr, who are base…
Iraq ordered an investigation into an overnight drone attack on the office of Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, after Kurdish authorities blamed Iran and Tehran called the incident suspicious. The office of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said…
Missile strikes in Russia's Belgorod region killed six people and wounded four others, including a child, Belgorod acting governor Alexander Shuvaev said Monday. Shuvaev said on the state-backed MAX platform that Ukrainian missiles hit the village of Koloskov…
EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas wants to increase by one third the number of Russian entities sanctioned over the Ukraine war, German newspaper Die Welt reported Monday. Kallas told Die Welt she was putting forward "the most far-reaching sanctions listings since…
American missionary Kevin Rideout is preparing to return to the United States after being released from captivity in Niger and reunited with his wife, President Donald Trump said Sunday. Trump wrote on Truth Social that Rideout had been reunited with his wife…
A central Jerusalem cafe that opens on Shabbat has become a weekly flashpoint between ultra-Orthodox protesters and secular Israelis, exposing wider tensions over religion, military service and politics before Israel's October 27 elections. Since June, ultra-…
Raids on security bases in northern Niger killed several soldiers, security and local sources told AFP, and an armed group opposed to the country's ruling junta claimed responsibility. A north Niger security source told AFP that the early Friday attacks targe…
Iran's military said on Sunday it would pay a reward equivalent to $30,000 to anyone who kills or captures and hands over a US soldier, and would double the payment if the act is carried out by a woman. Army chief Amir Hatami said the plan followed what he ca…
Saudi Arabia's civil defence agency issued a Sunday alert warning of a "potential danger" in Jazan province, a southern area along the border with Yemen. The agency said the National Early Warning Platform had issued the warning for Jazan. Similar alerts are…
Israeli strikes on Saturday killed 11 people in southern Lebanon, authorities said, as Israel on Sunday named another Hezbollah commander it said was killed and vowed to strike again if threatened. Israel said the strikes were a response to Hezbollah setting…
Ukrainian Telegram channels are sending rapid warnings about Russian drones and missiles, giving Kyiv residents extra information as some Russian ballistic missiles can reach the capital within minutes of an official air raid alert. One channel, Aeris Rimor,…
Renewed Houthi attacks in Yemen have revived fears of a return to wider war after a 2022 truce had brought relative calm to the country. Residents in Mokha, Khokha and Marib described fear of new displacement and violence after recent attacks on government-he…
Strikes in Russia and Ukraine killed 19 people, authorities said Sunday, as drones and missiles hit civilian infrastructure on both sides of the war. In Russia, Rostov regional governor Yuri Slusar said swarms of Ukrainian drones killed five people in a resid…
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel wants new and more ambitious US-brokered talks with Lebanon after deadly Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah. Doron Spielman told AFP on Saturday that the strikes “should jumpstart the talk…
Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday it would regard three missing pilots as prisoners in Qatar until Doha clarifies what happened to them, despite Qatar's denial that it is holding them. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told a weekly briefing that…
More than 20 people were killed in violence between rival Kambari and Fulani communities in central Nigeria, a lawmaker and other sources said Saturday. Jafar Muhammad, who represents Borgu Federal Constituency, confirmed the clashes and called for security f…
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that no talks with Iran were under way or scheduled, after posting a map showing the Strait of Hormuz as “NEW U.S. Territory.” Separately, the United Arab Emirates said it was halting trade and financial transactions wit…
Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed 11 people, including three children, on Saturday, while Israel said it had targeted Hezbollah after an attack on its soldiers. The ministry said seven people, including three children a…
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday blamed Iran for attacking a vessel linked to state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the Strait of Hormuz, after ADNOC said one of its vessels was attacked while transiting the waterway on Friday evening. The UAE for…
An attack on the Sudanese town of Umm Arda killed more than 14 civilians and wounded dozens, the local NGO Emergency Lawyers said Friday, blaming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Emergency Lawyers said the RSF attacked Umm Arda, southwest of El Obeid in…
A military official from Yemen's internationally recognised government said a Houthi strike on the port city of Mokha killed eight people on Friday, including two security personnel. The official said the Houthis fired five missiles at commercial ships unload…
Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Friday that they had targeted an oil facility belonging to Saudi Arabia's state petroleum company Aramco in Najran with a drone, the group's Saba press agency reported. Saba quoted a Houthi military source as saying the site in s…
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanese authorities of putting undue pressure on the country's armed forces by implementing a framework deal agreed with Israel to end hostilities. The June trilateral framework, also involving the United States,…
Kevin Rideout, a US missionary kidnapped in Niger last year, has been released and is back in United States custody, President Donald Trump said Friday. SIM International, the Christian group Rideout worked for, had earlier relayed news of his release. The gr…
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank say new Israeli settlement activity around Jenin is cutting them off from land, roads and livelihoods, as families report settler incursions, demolitions and growing restrictions near newly occupied sites. Amin Rahal, a…
A United Nations special rapporteur has said a military victory over jihadist insurgents in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province does not appear imminent. Ben Saul made the assessment in a report released Friday after visiting Mozambique from August 4 to 14 to…
Uganda's defence minister Kiryowa Kiwanuka said Friday that Ugandan troops will remain in Somalia under a bilateral arrangement, even as uncertainty grows over the future of the African Union mission there. “Uganda is going to remain in Somalia,” Kiwanuka tol…
A settler blockade of Palestinian homes in Qusra near Nablus has persisted for more than a week despite repeated Israeli military deployments, drawing renewed scrutiny of how Israeli forces respond to settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Settlers began…
Rebel authorities in Ethiopia's Tigray region accused the federal government of carrying out a drone strike on Tuesday near Mekelle, the regional capital, as tensions rise between the two sides. Kelali Hagazi, a local official and member of the Tigray People'…
Israeli police arrested four suspects on Saturday after a vehicle carrying foreign journalists was allegedly damaged near Sinjil in the occupied West Bank, in…
Two members of Iran's Basij forces were killed in an attack while patrolling in Mashhad, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported Saturday. Tasnim said a pedestrian…
Ukrainian authorities said on July 11 that Russia was attacking Kyiv with missiles.
Nigerian troops killed more than 300 members of kidnapping and cattle rustling gangs in Zamfara state this week, a state official said Friday. Zamfara informa…
Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Friday that a turning point in the war with Russia was still “a long way off”, even as he cited recent gains…
Pro-democracy People's Defence Forces fighters in Myanmar are trying to maintain morale at a secret jungle camp after military setbacks and retreats from earli…
North Korea will strengthen its nuclear force “both in quality and quantity” and expand the role of its military intelligence agency focused on South Korea, st…
The area of Africa’s Sahel affected by jihadist attacks has doubled since 2020, conflict monitor ACLED says, as armed groups expand across rural areas and into…
Iranian state media reported that an Iranian official said a US strike targeted the perimeter of a nuclear plant.
A Sri Lankan contingent has joined the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force in Haiti, a spokesperson for the force said, adding that the number of personnel was no…
Myanmar's pro-democracy rebels are losing ground five years after the 2021 military coup, as the military regains battlefield initiative and key ethnic armed g…
Colombia’s military said National Liberation Army guerrillas injured three workers in a drone attack on Tibu Airport near the Venezuelan border on Thursday. T…
Gaza's civil defence agency and health officials said Israeli drone strikes and gunfire killed six people across the Palestinian territory on Thursday, despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service u…
Kyiv residents are crowding underground shelters and changing long-standing routines as Russian ballistic missile and drone attacks put new pressure on the Ukrainian capital. AFP reported that more than 50 people have been killed in Kyiv so far in July, with…
Dozens of missiles and drones fired by Iran caused no significant damage or injuries to American personnel, a US defense official said on July 9. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Iranian missiles and drones “were intercepted or faile…
Tuareg separatists and jihadist allies attacked a convoy of Russian mercenaries and Malian soldiers in northern Mali on Thursday morning as it headed toward Anefis. Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, spokesperson for the Azawad Liberation Front, said FLA fighters e…
Kuwait's defence ministry said at least one person was injured on Tuesday, July 7, after what it described as the latest Iranian attack on the country. Defence ministry spokesman Colonel Staff Saud Abdulaziz Al-Atwan said the injured person was receiving medi…
Iran's military said it targeted sites in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain with one-way attack drones on Thursday, state media reported, describing the operation as retaliation for US strikes earlier in the day. The army said the attacks were “in continuation” of Ir…
Kuwait's military said on Thursday that its air defences were intercepting “hostile” missile and drone attacks. The General Staff of the Army said on X that any explosions heard were the result of air defence systems intercepting the attacks. The military did…
Bahrain's interior ministry said air raid sirens sounded on July 9 after Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to respond to US strikes on Iran. “The siren has been sounded,” the ministry posted on X, urging citizens and residents to stay calm and go to the neare…
Iran prepared on July 9 to bury slain leader Ali Khamenei in the northeastern city of Mashhad as US Central Command said it had carried out new strikes on Iran's coast. The burial was due to follow several days of funeral ceremonies that drew mourners across…
Iran is making a high-risk calculation that limited escalation can restore deterrence without pushing the United States into all-out war, analysts said, as tensions focus on the Strait of Hormuz. The US military said Iran struck at least three commercial ship…
The Israeli military said Wednesday that its troops captured a Hezbollah militant in southern Lebanon a day earlier and transferred him to Israel for questioning. The military said the man was seized in the Bint Jbeil area on Tuesday, where Israeli troops cla…
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Washington would give Ukraine the right to make Patriot air-defence systems, but gave no timeline for the pledge. Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara tha…
A tanker was hit by a drone while making an outbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said Friday, citing military authorities. UKMTO said the vessel suffered minor damage. It said the crew were…
The United Arab Emirates blamed Iran on Friday for attacks on two vessels affiliated with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as they passed through the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier. The UAE foreign ministry denounced what it called a “hostile Iranian attack” on…
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace on Friday, August 14, the alliance said, in the latest reported incursion along NATO’s eastern flank bordering Russia. A NATO spokesperson said two Italian Eurofighter jets were scrambled in re…
A bomb attack killed Habib-ur-Rahman Mansour, mayor of Faizabad in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, on Thursday, hospital and municipal workers told AFP. A nurse at Badakhshan provincial hospital said Mansour was killed after a bomb targeted his vehicle. A…
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed a drone attack on an Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan region on Thursday, the group's affiliated news agency Saba reported. Saba cited a Houthi military source as saying Houthi forces targeted the refinery with tw…
Tuareg separatists in Mali said they released six wounded Malian soldiers on Sunday, three days after Mali's army said 82 other soldiers held hostage had been freed. The Azawad Liberation Front, known as the FLA, said it had handed over six wounded Malian sol…
Palestinian health and rescue officials said Israeli strikes in Gaza killed two people on Thursday, including Gaza City's police governor Jamal Abu Kamil, in a second straight day of bombardment after a lull linked to a US peace push. The Israeli military sai…
Poland detained a Russian national accused by Warsaw of planning to kill a Ukrainian-American dual citizen in the Polish capital on Moscow's orders, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, August 13. Tusk said the suspect was arrested on Friday, August 7…
Israel officially reopened the Ganim settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, more than 20 years after evacuating the community under a 2005 disengagement plan. About two dozen pre-fabricated homes had already been installed at Ganim, where construct…
A Kuwaiti security source told AFP that authorities had arrested three alleged Islamic State group members accused of planning attacks on a Shia mosque and unspecified vital facilities. The source said the three belonged to one IS cell and included minors. Ku…
Russia and Ukraine swapped bodies of killed soldiers on Thursday, in one of the few areas where the warring sides still cooperate. Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said 261 deceased persons had been returned to Ukraine…
Russian authorities said on Friday that fuel supplies to service stations remained tense in several regions, as Ukraine continues long-range strikes on Russian oil refineries. The Russian government said oil companies were taking measures to increase deliveri…
A Russian-installed official in Sevastopol said five first responders were killed in Russia-annexed Crimea when a munition detonated after a Ukrainian attack. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, said on social media that four pyr…
Ukrainian officials said a Russian drone attack on a passenger train in the southern Odesa region killed two crew members on Thursday. The train was carrying 340 passengers, and none of them was harmed, the chief executive of Ukraine's state railway operator…
Civilian deaths in Ukraine reached their highest level since May 2022 in July, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission said Thursday. The mission said at least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukraine during the month. It said the dea…
France urged Israel to arrest and prosecute settlers besieging Qusra in the occupied West Bank, adding to international pressure over the blockade of Palestinian homes near Nablus. Residents said settlers had blockaded homes in Qusra since Sunday, cutting the…
Taiwan slowed mobile internet speeds for 30 minutes and ordered millions of people indoors on Thursday during an air raid drill simulating a Chinese attack. The drill was part of Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military exercise, which is aimed at preparing the isl…
Military aid allocated to Ukraine reached 7.2 billion euros, or $8.3 billion, in June, the highest monthly amount since US funding ended, Kiel Institute data showed on August 13. The institute's Ukraine Support Tracker said the June figure was the third-bigge…
Iran's foreign ministry blamed pollution in Gulf waters on US military operations in the region after several oil spills were reported, and called for the United States to be held accountable. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told a news briefing Mon…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine needs the United States to sell it 5% of its Patriot interceptor missile stocks to get through winter and save lives. In a CNN interview published Thursday, Zelensky said 10% of US Patriot interceptor stocks…
Tel Aviv has formally made Hostages Square the official name of the plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where families and supporters rallied for two years to demand the return of Israelis abducted by Hamas. The city unveiled the name on Wednesday. Mayo…
Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad at his home near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, and the Israeli military later said he was suspected of advancing terror attacks and operating on behalf of Hamas, without providing…
Ukraine's air force said on August 12 that it would stop publishing detailed figures on Russian ballistic missile strikes as its forces struggle to intercept increased Russian attacks. Yuriy Ignat, the air force communications chief, said the military leaders…
A Ukrainian platoon has appealed to military leaders for help, saying its soldiers spent more than four months without rotation on the front line and survived periods without food or water. Several servicemen from the 121st Territorial Defence Brigade appeare…
Gaza's civil defence agency and Al-Shifa Hospital said an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia killed Mohanad Saada and wounded five other people on Wednesday, in Israel's first Gaza air strike in more than a week. The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas co…
The Israeli military said Wednesday it would send more troops to Qusra in the occupied West Bank after settlers remained outside Palestinian homes despite an army attempt to end a blockade. The siege began on Sunday, when settlers set up a makeshift tent near…
Russia has hit more than 200 petrol stations across Ukraine since July, Ukrainian media reported, as strikes on roadside fuel sites spread mainly through the east and northeast along routes leading to the front. Near Izyum in eastern Ukraine, a petrol station…
Ukrainian drone strikes on southern Russia and Russian attacks on southern Ukraine killed four people, including an eight-year-old child, officials from both countries said Wednesday. Venyamin Kondratyev, governor of Russia's Krasnodar region, said an eight-y…
Colombian airstrikes against the National Liberation Army killed two rebels in the northeastern Catatumbo region, a military source told AFP, as President Abelardo de la Espriella's new government expands operations against armed groups. The Defense Ministry…
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces launched drone and ground attacks across the country on Thursday, a day after coordinated drone strikes killed two people in El-Obeid, according to the Emergency Lawyers rights group. Drones and anti-aircraft missiles…
Human rights NGO Provea said Julio Rodriguez, an Indigenous leader of the Jivi Ekunay people, has been found dead after being kidnapped for eight days from a southern Venezuelan mining town. Provea said Rodriguez had been abducted by alleged members of FARC d…
Taiwan condemned China's plan to hold a naval passage exercise with Indonesia east of Taiwan in mid-August, saying Beijing was trying to create the impression that it has jurisdiction over waters off the island's east coast. China's defence ministry said Tues…
North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew more than 700 kilometres from the Wonsan area toward the East Sea, South Korea's military said, days before major US-South Korea drills are due to begin. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch was d…
The US military said Tuesday that a US Navy MH-60 helicopter fired missiles into the engine room of a Panama-flagged cargo ship after it said the vessel tried to break the American blockade of Iran's ports. US Central Command said on X that the helicopter dis…
Nearly 40,000 people have fled their homes in northern and central Mali after a surge in clashes and bombardments, humanitarian, local and security sources said Tuesday. A social development official said “nearly 40,000 people” had been displaced, with around…
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned what he called Israel's systematic destruction in south Lebanon on Wednesday, saying Israeli attacks, incursions and demolitions violated international and humanitarian law. Salam said the destruction of homes, in…
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said Israeli spies had visited Iran's Fordow nuclear site "many times" to understand the facility, Israeli media reported Tuesday. Cohen, who led Israel's intelligence agency from 2015 to 2021, did not say when the visits took…
A cattle raid in central South Sudan killed at least 60 people, including 15 attackers, a local official said, in the latest deadly communal violence in Warrap State. Warrap spokesperson William Wol Mayom Bol said two simultaneous attacks happened at around 4…
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked the border town of Geissan and nearby farms on Tuesday morning, local authorities said, opening a new clash near Ethiopia. Authorities in Geissan said the RSF and allied fighters from a faction of the Sudan P…
Israeli forces demolished the occupied West Bank home of Farouq Ramadan on Tuesday after he died in a July 24 clash near the town of Tell that killed one Israeli settler, one Israeli soldier and four Palestinians. Tell Mayor Walid Zaidan told AFP that the arm…
Ten Nigerian police officers were killed in dawn clashes with a large group of armed men in Kebbi State on Tuesday, police said. Kebbi State police spokesman Bashir Usman said security forces intercepted suspected bandits moving between Zamfara and Kebbi stat…
Yemen's coastguard said Tuesday that alleged Houthi strikes on the cargo vessel Tihamah near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait killed at least six people and injured 10. The coastguard, which serves Yemen's internationally recognised government, said four sailors on t…
Experts say the killing of Libyan National Army intelligence chief Fawzi al-Mansouri may complicate US-brokered efforts to reunify Libya's divided institutions, after a car bomb in Benghazi and drone attacks on a major refinery near Tripoli exposed security v…
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Israeli strikes in the southern city of Nabatieh killed one person on Tuesday, after the health ministry reported two wounded and said a second strike damaged an ambulance. The agency said the first strike targete…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia fired North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircon missiles and guided aerial bombs in an overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia that killed six people and wounded 19. Zelensky said the southeastern Ukraini…
A medical source at a hospital in Alimata said that four Tigrayan fighters were wounded in drone strikes in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, after rebel authorities accused the federal government of carrying out the strikes. Amanuel Assefa, vice chairman of…
Israel shared intelligence with the United States about what US media described as a new and specific Iranian plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, CNN and The Wall Street Journal reported. CNN, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said Wash…
A Russian attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed five people and wounded 20, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said early Tuesday, August 11. Fedorov, the head of the regional military administration, said on Telegram that the number of…
Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least 10 people overnight and wounded dozens, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of using North Korean ballistic missiles in the raid. Zaporizhzhia was the worst hit city…
Libya's National Oil Corporation said Tuesday evening that all fires at the Zawiya oil refinery had been contained after drone attacks hit the complex west of Tripoli. Hamdi al-Bishti, head of the Brega Oil Company, which runs the refinery, told AFP that a la…
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, remains a central unresolved figure in Turkey's latest attempt to end decades of conflict with the PKK. Turkish lawmakers voted on Aug. 10 for a bill offering limited amnesty for some PKK fi…
Turkey's vote on a limited amnesty bill for some PKK militants follows decades of conflict involving the Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Turkish state. The PKK was formed in 1978 by Ankara University students with Marxist-Leninist roots and a goal of Kurdish…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Russia was preparing to station more North Korean troops on its territory and had received additional ballistic missiles from Pyongyang. Zelensky made the claims in his nightly address but did not presen…
Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei named Revolutionary Guards general Ali Abdollahi chief of staff of the armed forces on Monday and appointed Ahmad Vahidi to lead the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. A statement on Khamenei's website said Abdollahi was…
NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo said Monday it was reducing its presence at two key security sites, Visoki Decani Monastery and a Mitrovica bridge, for the first time since the 1990s war. The NATO-led KFOR mission said it had begun integrating Kosovo Po…
Sweden's Security Service said Monday it had disrupted a Russian intelligence operation that it said was aimed at influencing Swedish decision-making and discrediting Sweden, NATO and the European Union. The counter-espionage agency, known as Sapo, said the o…
Germany will double the personnel in its federal police anti-drone unit to 300 after an explosives-laden UAV was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle airport, the government said on Monday. A ministry spokeswoman said the number of operational…
South Korean and US forces will hold major joint drills from August 17 that account for North Korean troops' experience in the Russia-Ukraine war, an exercise spokesman said Monday. The 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise is a regular summer drill by South K…
A Russian artillery strike killed five people in a residential area of Bugaivka village in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on August 10, the regional prosecutor's office said Monday. The prosecutor's office said on Telegram that Russian forces carried o…
Russian authorities in Tatarstan said Monday that a Ukrainian drone strike killed at least 13 people and wounded 75 in Nizhnekamsk, an industrial oil-refining city more than 1,000 kilometres from Ukraine's border. The regional press service said 21 of the wou…
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella said Colombian forces killed six members of armed groups on Sunday in military operations days after he took office. De la Espriella said troops killed four members of a splinter faction of the former FARC guerrill…
At least 10 soldiers were killed on Sunday in an attack on an army base in San, central Mali, security and local sources told AFP. A security source said the camp in the village of San was temporarily occupied by the attackers and gave a provisional toll of a…
A World Health Organization humanitarian warehouse stocking medical supplies in Dnipro, Ukraine, was struck and destroyed on Friday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday. Tedros said no casualties had been reported. He said a WHO sta…
Houthi attacks in Yemen killed at least four troops from the internationally recognised government forces and injured 20 more personnel on Sunday, two military sources told AFP. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the initial toll came from…
Pope Leo XIV called on Sunday for humanitarian corridors to be opened for civilians caught in Sudan's conflict, saying he was especially concerned about El-Obeid in southern Kordofan. Leo said he was following “with concern the tragic situation in Sudan, espe…
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Sunday that they targeted Saudi troops and equipment in Mokha, a city on Yemen's Red Sea coast, after residents there said they heard blasts. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group carried out what he called a…
Russian strikes killed two people in Ukraine and a Ukrainian drone attack killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region, officials said, as the World Health Organization condemned a strike that destroyed its medical supplies warehouse in Dnipro. Ukrainian P…
Strikes by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 11 people on Sunday in Mokha, a medical source in the government-held Red Sea port city told AFP, after an earlier Houthi drone salvo targeted a Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea coast. The medical source said…
Japan's debate over whether to revisit its nuclear weapons stance is worrying survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government updates national defence policy. Japan's constitution renounces offensive military force, and suc…
Two bombing attacks in Colombia on Saturday killed at least one police officer and wounded several people on President Abelardo de la Espriella's first day in office. Colombia's army said FARC guerrilla dissidents used explosives to destroy a highway tollboot…
Drones were detected above an army installation at Mechernich in western Germany, a military operational command spokesman told AFP on Saturday. The spokesman said the site's security centre reported the sightings to police on Thursday. Police opened an inves…
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said a verified source reported that a ship was struck by an unknown projectile off Oman in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. UKMTO said the projectile caused a fire that was extinguished. It said the vessel and cr…
Oleksiy Yukov, a Ukrainian volunteer known for recovering bodies from dangerous areas near the front, was mourned in Kyiv after his family said he was killed by a mine during a mission. Yukov, 40, led the volunteer organisation Platsdarm, which retrieved bodi…
Lebanese state media, the local mayor and a Lebanese military source said Israeli troops entered Zawtar al-Gharbiya shortly after midnight Saturday and built an earthen barrier in the south Lebanon village, one of two pilot zones under a June agreement with I…
Ukraine has denied intentionally targeting Bulgaria after an explosives-laden drone exploded near the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline close to the Romanian border. Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhyi said Kyiv was in contact with Bulgarian authoriti…
A dozen explosions were heard in Ukraine's capital Kyiv early Saturday after city authorities warned of incoming ballistic missiles. Kyiv's military administration said on Telegram that an air raid alert had been declared in the capital “due to the use of bal…
Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in Brovary district northeast of Kyiv, Ukrainian regional military official Tymur Tkachenko said Saturday. Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's regional military administration, said three other people were wounded…
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed an attack on the Sahn al-Jinn military camp in Marib province on Friday, and a Yemeni military source said eight personnel were killed in the province. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the camp, held by forces of Yemen's Saudi-b…
Central African Republic authorities have opened a criminal investigation after Swiss geologist Luca Maggini and a soldier were killed in an attack linked to a mining project, court officials told AFP on Friday. Officials at the High Court in Damara said unid…
Syria revised the toll from a bus explosion in Jaramana, near Damascus, to 14 injured and no deaths, after initially reporting two people killed. The blast ripped through a minibus on Thursday in the town, which is home to Christian and Druze communities. Sta…
Houthi attacks in Yemen's Marib province killed at least 10 people on Friday, Yemen's health minister and a Yemeni military source said, while the UN envoy warned that the country faces a rising risk of renewed large-scale conflict. A Yemeni military source t…
A warehouse belonging to Russian e-commerce company Wildberries caught fire in Yekaterinburg on Friday after a drone attack, the company said. Regional governor Denis Pasler said three drones crashed into the roof of the warehouse early Friday and caused no c…
Ukraine's drone sector is unlikely to be derailed by last month's dismissal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, according to industry figures and military personnel interviewed by AFP, who said battlefield demand and bottom-up engineering have made the shif…
South Korean authorities have recovered 15 suspected North Korean landmines found along coastal areas in a northwestern border county between July 23 and August 3, a local civil defence official said Friday. Choi Young-ran, head of civil defence for the count…
Yemen's Houthi rebels wounded 11 civilians in Saudi Arabia's southern Najran region late Thursday, the Riyadh-led coalition said. Coalition spokesman General Turki al-Maliki said in a statement carried by the official Saudi news agency that the wounded includ…
At least 58 Saudi-backed Yemeni government troops were killed and dozens were injured in Houthi missile and drone attacks on Thursday, a military source who spoke on condition of anonymity said. Medical sources had earlier put the death toll at 38. A military…
A bomb planted on a minibus exploded on Thursday in Jaramana, near Damascus, killing at least two people and wounding 13, Syrian state media reported, citing the health ministry. State TV cited an official source as saying preliminary information indicated th…
Yemen's internationally recognised government said Thursday that its armed forces would respond to missile and drone attacks it attributed to Houthi rebels, after medical sources said 38 government troops were killed earlier in the day. The defence ministry s…
Syrian state television reported that a bomb planted on a minibus exploded on Thursday in Jaramana, a town in the suburbs of Damascus, citing an official source. An AFP photographer saw several ambulances heading to the scene, where a main street had been clo…
Israeli settlers attacked the small Palestinian community of Khirbet al-Tuba in the occupied West Bank late on August 5, injuring people, burning homes and smashing the community's power source, the Israeli military and residents said. The Israeli military sa…
Two medical sources told AFP that Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis killed at least 38 Saudi-backed government troops and injured 29 in missile and drone attacks on Thursday. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the rebels attacked government positions with b…
Iran warned it would “black out” Gulf countries if the United States attacked Iranian power plants, two officials told AFP. A Gulf official said Iran sent the message through intermediaries last week, and another regional official confirmed the messaging. Bot…
A guide to the movements, governments and outside powers involved in Yemen's conflict, and how a decade-old civil war became a multi-front regional crisis. Key terms Head of State / Head of Government In Yemen's political system, the president serves as head…
German police said Thursday they had arrested a 33-year-old Ukrainian man suspected of filming a Bavarian arms manufacturer in preparation for acts of sabotage. Police in Bavaria said the man was arrested on August 2 in Thuringia state. They said he is suspec…
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile from the Wonsan area toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, South Korea's military said. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch was detected at around 5:00 pm local time. It earlier said the missile…
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has lost access to external power 24 times since Russia invaded in February 2022, with half of those losses in the past four months. The…
Russian strikes killed three people in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian officials said Thursday. Vitalii Karabanov, head of the military administration in Balakliya, said strikes on a residential area killed two women and a man in the frontlin…
A militia that emerged with Central African government backing in the southeast of the country has turned against its former allies, adding to insecurity in the remote Haut-Mbomou region. The Azande Ani Kpi Gbe militia, known as AAKG, appeared in 2023 in an a…
Lebanon's official National News Agency said Israeli airstrikes and shelling hit Tyre district from Wednesday night into Thursday morning, reporting four people wounded in Burj al-Shamali as renewed hostilities continued during US-mediated talks in Rome. The…
Russia's embassy in Colombia denied having links to suspected recruitment networks of Colombian mercenaries for the war in Ukraine, after a Colombian media investigation alleged Moscow had enlisted Colombians. The diplomatic mission said Wednesday it had no r…
The United Arab Emirates said on August 8 that Iran targeted an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company tanker with a missile while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz, causing no casualties. The UAE foreign ministry condemned what it called a hostile Iranian attac…
Colombia's outgoing defense minister warned Wednesday of a possible threat of "acts of terrorism" during president-elect Abelardo De la Espriella's inauguration in Cali. Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez told radio broadcaster La FM that criminals would "most li…
Yemen's Houthis said Wednesday they had attacked the Saudi oil tanker Daisy in the Gulf of Aden with a ballistic missile. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree made the claim in a statement. The group said it was the second Saudi oil tanker it had targeted in…
Puntland police said more than 100 people were arrested after forces from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland state attacked a government-aligned military camp in northern Galkacyo on Wednesday. The camp near the city’s airport was occupied by troops formerly…
The Palestine Red Crescent said eight people were taken to hospital after Israeli forces raided Qalandia refugee camp near Jerusalem on Wednesday, during an operation Israeli authorities said targeted wanted individuals, weapons and what they called terrorist…
Ukrainian authorities ordered 525 children and their guardians to leave Kramatorsk and nearby areas in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday because of intensifying Russian strikes, Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said. Filashkin said the evacuations would be…
Israel's military said it resumed strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, citing what it called a Hezbollah ceasefire violation, as Lebanon and Israel held US-sponsored talks in Rome aimed at ending hostilities. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said…
The Israeli military told residents of Al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon to leave their homes immediately on Wednesday ahead of expected attacks against Hezbollah. “In light of Hezbollah's violations of the ceasefire agreement, the Israel Defense Forces are com…
An Israeli military probe said on August 5 that friendly fire may have killed Israeli settler and army reservist Benayahu Mellet during a deadly late-July clash with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tell. The violence in Tell, in the northern…
Vladimir Tkachuk, the chief executive of Russian drone maker Uraldronzavod, was seriously wounded in a car explosion, Russian state media reported Wednesday. TASS quoted an emergency services source as saying Tkachuk was in intensive care in serious condition…
German prosecutors said an explosive-laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle airport did not explode because its detonator was defective. Chancellor Friedrich Merz convened Germany's national security council on Friday to discuss the d…
Yemen's Houthis said Wednesday they attacked two Saudi oil tankers, the Wafa in the northern Red Sea off Yanbu and the Daisy in the Gulf of Aden, as the group continued its declared maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said…
More than 821,000 people displaced by the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon had begun returning to their areas of origin by July 30, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said. OCHA said more than 360,000 people remained displaced, including around 26,000 in governme…
Taiwanese troops blocked the recently opened Danjiang Bridge near Taipei with concrete barriers, barbed wire and Hesco walls in an overnight drill to practise stopping a possible Chinese advance on the capital. The exercise took place on Thursday, the second…
Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 40 in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday, while Ukraine said it did not shoot down any of the missiles launched in the attack. Ukrai…
Blackouts, fuel shortages and Ukrainian drone attacks are disrupting daily life in Russian-annexed Crimea during the summer holiday season, as Kyiv escalates strikes on the peninsula's fuel and electrical facilities. Warnings have become more frequent since U…
Russian strikes on Kyiv killed a woman and wounded at least 12 other people, Kyiv authorities said Wednesday, after Ukraine's air force warned of incoming ballistic missiles. AFP journalists heard explosions in the Ukrainian capital shortly after midnight, 21…
Former Colombian guerrillas who laid down their weapons under a deal with outgoing President Gustavo Petro fear their future under president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, who has pledged to end negotiations with armed groups and wage war on them instead. Th…
An Indian-flagged commercial ship sank in the Red Sea off Yemen on Tuesday after an attack, and all 14 crew members were rescued, a local official in the Yemeni city of Mokha said. Yemen's internationally recognised government blamed the Iran-backed Houthi re…
Hundreds of people attended a mass funeral in Gaza City on Tuesday for 112 people recovered from rubble, Gaza's civil defence said. Rows of Palestinian flags were laid over remains at a cleared plot between buildings flattened by airstrikes. Gaza's civil defe…
Overnight clashes between rival armed groups in western Libya killed four people and wounded more than 10 before a neutral force intervened to stop the violence, security sources told AFP on Tuesday. A local security official said the fighting was between mem…
Operations were suspended on Tuesday at Najran Airport in southern Saudi Arabia after Yemen's Houthis said they had attacked the site with a drone, a regional source with knowledge of the matter told AFP. The source said the airport's main radar was hit, affe…
Turkey's foreign ministry said drone attacks on two civilian vessels in the Black Sea injured several crew members after the ships left the Russian port of Novorossiysk late on Monday. The ministry identified the ships as Yasar and Nadezhda and said the condi…
Ukrainian officials accused Russian forces on Tuesday of using a drone to deliberately chase and attack a civilian in Kherson, after a video circulated showing a man pursued by a first-person-view drone. AFP could not immediately verify the footage. It showed…
Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said a drone strike on the Novoselki industrial zone outside the Russian capital killed five people and wounded 10 others, according to preliminary information. Vorobyov said several fires broke out after the strike ea…
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said North Korea would set up “additional military options” in response to what she called Japan's transformation into a “war state,” according to a statement carried by KCNA on Wednesday. The warnin…
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, a Bangladeshi captain, says he and his crew spent 115 days stranded in the Gulf as war disrupted shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. Islam, 51, told AFP after returning home to Cumilla that he was commanding the bulk carrier Banglar…
Russian strikes killed one person and wounded others in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, Oleg Grygorov, head of the regional military administration, said Tuesday. Grygorov said on Telegram that guided aerial bombs hit civilian infrastructure in the city's Kovpa…
A crew member was reported missing after a vessel was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire, British maritime security company Vanguard Tech said. United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said the vessel reported being hit 20 na…
Israel's army chief said the military would continue to “operate proactively” in Gaza, as Israel disputed parts of a US-backed plan that includes Hamas disarming and an Israeli withdrawal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has not agreed t…
Al-Shabaab has taken control of Teedaan in central Somalia's Hiiraan region after nearly 24 hours of fighting with government forces, according to local accounts. The Islamist insurgent group said it “took control of the strategic area of Teedaan in eastern H…
Ukraine’s front lines changed little in July as Russia’s momentum slowed, with Moscow gaining less than 40 square kilometres during the month, an AFP analysis of Institute for the Study of War data found. Russia had gained 30 square kilometres in June. Its re…
A Russian strike on a warehouse in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, destroyed more than eight million books, publishing house Ranok said Monday. Ranok said the books were destroyed in a fire after a weekend strike, and said the losses included textbooks for chi…
Russian officials said Ukrainian strikes killed 11 people in a Russian Black Sea resort village and in Moscow-annexed Crimea, while Ukrainian officials reported deaths and injuries from Russian attacks in Ukraine. The crisis task force for Russia's southern K…
Residents said gunmen kidnapped at least 52 people, including children, during a weekend attack on Kasuwar Daji village and a military base in Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria. The gunmen rode motorcycles into the village in the Kaura Namoda local government…
The master of a tanker off Oman reported hearing an explosion near the vessel on Sunday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said. UKMTO said the vessel and crew were reported safe. The incident happened 20 nautical miles northeast of Khasab,…
Hundreds of people have fled villages in Niger's southwestern Dosso region after mid-July attacks that killed and wounded civilians, state media and local sources said. A regional official told AFP that villagers had been forced to leave during the farming se…
Emergency Lawyers said Sudanese army drones struck a traditional court in Garra al-Zawaya, North Darfur, at about 1:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounding others. The rights group said civilians had gathered for hearings on local cases a…
Fighting between the Ethiopian army and Tigray rebels has ended after clashes near Ethiopia's border with Sudan, local and security sources told AFP on Sunday. A member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, speaking anonymously, said there was a “de-escala…
A suicide bomber attacked a crowded intersection near a police station during a civil society protest in Pakistan's Swat district, killing 13 people and wounding 22, police said Sunday. Swat Deputy Inspector General of Police Fida Hussain said the dead includ…
Officials in Russia and Ukraine said attacks across both countries killed at least 14 people on Sunday, as Moscow and Kyiv continued long-range strikes nearly four-and-a-half years into the war. Russian officials said Ukrainian attacks killed at least nine pe…
Gaza's civil defence agency said Saturday it had recovered the remains or body parts of 112 people from rubble in Sabra, a neighbourhood in southern Gaza City. The agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas, said the remains were found after 136 h…
Yemen's Houthis denied Saturday that they were seeking to charge ships for passage through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, after a minister in Yemen's internationally recognised government accused them of doing so. The Houthi-aligned Saba news agency published a st…
US embassies across the Middle East urged American citizens on Saturday, August 1, to consider leaving the region or be ready to leave if the conflict escalates, warning of possible flight cancellations, airspace closures and other travel disruption. “America…
The Israeli military said on Saturday that it killed several Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon and that an Israeli soldier was moderately injured, despite a ceasefire. The military said its forces identified Hezbollah fighters overnight inside what Israe…
Gaza's civil defence rescue service said Israeli strikes killed at least 13 people on Sunday, after attacks hit several residential buildings and other targets while Hamas said it had agreed to the latest stage of a plan to end the war. The rescue service, wh…
Niger's state ANP news agency said security force members were killed after a Boko Haram attack on the outskirts of N'Guigmi, a garrison town in the Diffa region near Lake Chad. Local residents told AFP that around 10 soldiers were killed in the attack on Fri…
China said it conducted military and coast guard drills on Saturday near Scarborough Shoal, a contested South China Sea reef claimed by China and the Philippines. A spokesperson for the Chinese army's Southern Theater Command said China held a joint naval-air…
Rosatom said Ukrainian drones sank the Russian-owned container ship Yanina in the Black Sea near the port of Novorossiysk early Saturday, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon the vessel. Russia's state-owned nuclear power operator said at least two Ukrainian…
An AFP analysis of Ukrainian air force daily reports published Saturday found that Russia launched 376 missiles at Ukraine in July, a record monthly total in the data reviewed. The July missile figure was more than twice the number fired in June. Russia also…
Russian attacks on Kyiv and the suburb of Brovary killed 10 people early Saturday, Ukrainian authorities said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for more Patriot air defence systems. Authorities said more than 30 people were wounded and five districts…
Fifteen bodies identified by a medical source as Tigray rebel fighters were recovered Monday from the Setit River in a Sudanese border town after renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia sent hundreds of people across the border. The medical source at Wad al-Hul…