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ADDIS ABABA (REUTERS) – Two airports in Ethiopia’s Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire…
View More Airports near Ethiopia's Tigray state attacked with rockets, government says
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan on Thursday (Aug 6) marks 75 years since the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling…
View More Japan marks 75th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb
BERLIN (AFP) – The prosecution’s closing arguments will be heard on Monday (July 6) in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard…
View More Former Nazi camp guard, 93, faces German court decision
CARACAS (REUTERS) – Venezuela’s government said it foiled a marine incursion on Sunday (May 3) by “terrorist mercenaries” who attempted to enter the country on…
View More Venezuela government says it foils attempted mercenary 'incursion'
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – With 110,000 peacekeepers deployed in more than a dozen countries around a world now ravaged by the coronavirus, the United Nations…
View More Coronavirus pandemic poses big challenges for UN peacekeeping operations
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (REUTERS) – Militant group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack in northern Mozambique just south of the site of gas projects…
View More Islamic State claims Mozambique attack close to gas projects
BEIRUT (AFP) – Syria’s brutal conflict enters its 10th year on Sunday (March 15) with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime consolidating its hold over a war-wracked…
View More Syria's brutal war enters 10th year, with Assad consolidating control
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (REUTERS, AP) – US officials said on Sunday (Dec 29) that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful,…
View More Trump aides call US strikes on Iraq and Syria 'successful', warn of potential further action
BEIRUT (AFP) – Civilians on Friday (Dec 27) packed a road leading out of north-west Syria, where two weeks of heightened regime and Russian bombardment…
View More More than 235,000 flee intense bombing in north-west Syria
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria (AFP) – Regime forces have seized dozens of towns and villages in north-west Syria from militants following days of violent clashes, fuelling…
View More Syria regime advances in Idlib, nine civilians killed
BEIRUT (AFP) – Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing bombardment in Syria’s Idlib region, the UN said, as fighting flares in the militant bastion…
View More Tens of thousands of civilians flee renewed Syria violence
BEIRUT (AP) – Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike on a market in a rebel-held town in the country’s northwest has killed at least 10…
View More Airstrike on market in Syrian rebel-held town kills 10
DERIK, SYRIA (WASHINGTON POST) – As the final hours of a ceasefire in northeastern Syria wound down on Tuesday (Oct 29), dread descended on a…
View More Dread grows in Syria as ceasefire draws to end
MOGADISHU (REUTERS) – Separate attacks hit a US military base in the Somali town of Baledogle and an Italian military convoy in the Somali capital…
View More Twin attacks hit EU military convoy in Somali capital and US base in Baledogle