War & Conflict

As part of the ongoing investigation into the president’s assassination on July 7, Haitian police said Monday that the chief of Jovenel Moise’s security had been arrested. Jean Laguel Civil, the president’s security chief, is suspected...

Tunisian police attacked Al Jazeera’s Tunis bureau, expelling all workers after President Kais Saied dissolved the cabinet late Sunday in a move that critics labelled a coup. According to Al Jazeera correspondents in Tunis, at least...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi will meet with US President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss a possible full US troop departure from his country, which has been weakened by pro-Iran elements at home. Despite Baghdad...

The US military has conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan in recent days to bolster Afghan security forces, according to the Pentagon. According to media sources, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby stated that “we have intervened, through airstrikes, to...

Israel fired artillery shells into Lebanon early Tuesday morning in retaliation for earlier rocket attacks, according to the Israeli army. “Lebanon launched two rockets into northern Israel. The Iron Dome Aerial Defense System intercepted one of...

Since a coup five months ago, dozens of children have been slain and hundreds have been unlawfully incarcerated in Myanmar, according to UN rights experts. Since February 1, the UN Child Rights Committee has received “reliable...

On Wednesday, police in Paris used tear gas to disperse 19,000 protesters protesting new coronavirus restrictions across the country. Some of the protests began in the morning in Paris, as President Emmanuel Macron watched the yearly...

Sherine Tadros, the head of Amnesty International’s UN office, responded to the UN Security Council’s vote renewing authorization of the Bab al-Hawa crossing point for the delivery of UN cross-border humanitarian aid from Turkey to northwest...

Thousands of Cubans participated in rare anti-communist marches on Sunday, yelling “Down with the dictatorship” as President Miguel Diaz-Canel urged his followers to fight the demonstrators. Anti-government protests erupted spontaneously in numerous cities as the country...

As security forces face a wave of violence prompted by a frenetic Taliban attack, Afghanistan has urged European countries to postpone forced deportations of Afghan migrants for the next three months. The country is in a...