War & Conflict

According to a Kremlin statement reported by Russian news agencies, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Wagner mercenary group and the national army on their alleged seizure of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut late Saturday....

Calm returned to Gaza on Sunday as a tenuous ceasefire ended five days of violence, leaving Palestinians and Israelis to tally the toll of cross-border shelling that killed scores. Fishermen flocked to the sea in the...

President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Hiroshima on Saturday for discussions with the G7, having won long-desired access to modern US fighter jets to enhance Ukraine’s defense. Zelensky’s surprise summit presence – he had previously been anticipated...

Thousands of Syrians have demonstrated around the country in opposition to several Arab countries normalizing relations with President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the country’s re-admission to the Arab League. The protests on Friday coincided with al-Assad’s...

Russia announced on Friday that it has barred 500 Americans, including former President Barack Obama, from entering the country in reaction to US sanctions. “In response to the anti-Russian sanctions regularly imposed by the Biden administration…...

On a hot pavement, Ibrahim Said expects to withdraw his savings from a Sudanese bank, but the wait feels as interminable as the country’s banking system. Said is one of dozens of depositors queuing outside a...

In an interview with AFP, Sierra Leone’s president expressed hope that a recently planned African mediation effort would stop Russia’s war in Ukraine “for the sake of humanity.” “We are all suffering as a result of...

Russia and Ukraine agreed Wednesday to prolong a pact permitting grain exports over the Black Sea, a rare display of collaboration as the war rages and one of Kyiv’s vital Patriot anti-missile defense systems was verified...

France promised Ukraine dozens more light tanks and armored vehicles on Monday, after President Emmanuel Macron met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris, as Kyiv prepares for a widely anticipated counter-offensive. Following stops in Rome and...

On the third day of the biggest escalation of bloodshed in months, Israel and Gaza militants exchanged heavy fire, killing 29 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave and one in Israel. According to officials in the...