Humanitarian groups worried north-east Syrian camps holding suspected IS members will lose basic facilities
Kurdish officials have warned of an Islamic State resurgence if US foreign aid cuts take effect on Monday, which would cripple essential services for tens of thousands of people detained in tented camps in north-east Syria, including suspected members of IS and their families.
Somalia’s government Saturday sent stern warnings to businesses and individuals that pay extortion money to al-Shabab, saying the full force of the law would be brought against traders and individuals who pay the al-Qaida ally.
Libya’s security authorities recovered at least 28 bodies of migrants from a mass grave in the desert in southeast Libya, the country’s attorney general said on its Facebook page on Sunday.
The bodies were found north of Kufra city, the attorney general said, while 76 migrants were freed “from forced detention.”
The United Nations on Monday accused Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of blocking aid to the war-torn country’s famine-threatened Darfur region.
The RSF, which has been at war with the regular army since April 2023, controls nearly all of Darfur, a western region the size of France.
A coalition of Sudanese political factions, including some members of the “Tagadum” alliance, the “Qimam” alliance, the National Umma Party, and other groups, are finalizing preparations to form a parallel government in opposition to the current government in Port Sudan.
Just after noon on January 17, 2023, Privat Damabakizi, 35, and his wife were working in their farm field in a tiny Central African Republic settlement near the border with Cameroon when his brother, Alvin, called him.
Seven armed men wearing camouflage uniforms had just driven up in pickup trucks at Damabakizi’s home in Bouar, a town about 7 kilometers away from the field.
The Israeli “Iron Wall” operation in the northern West Bank comes in light of many local, regional and international developments, as it came two days after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came into effect. At this time, the operation raises several questions, including the possibility of expanding its scope to include various areas of the West Bank, especially after it was described by Israeli officials as part of changing the concept of security in the West Bank.
Whatever one may think about its lack of morality, it was coldly pragmatic and wasn’t responsible for sparking World War II, just for temporarily putting off what proved to be its most deadly phase in Europe.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (MRP) is back in the news after President Putin explained to Tucker Carlson how interwar Polish diplomacy made World War II inevitable. Many on social media reacted by bringing up that agreement and arguing that it was responsible for Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Without their secret deal to divide Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) into spheres of influence, they argue, he wouldn’t have been emboldened into starting World War II. The reality, however, is altogether different.
The global order has undergone significant changes in recent decades, which have been intensified by specific factors.
The emergence of new global powers such as China and India is consolidating their roles as new economic, technological and military superpowers. The competition between the USA and China has reformatted international relations and has fueled trade, political and technological tensions.
Exclusive: Italy-based David Yambio, a critic of Meloni government, was told of attempt to compromise his phone
An Italy-based human rights activist whose work supports the international criminal court in providing evidence about cases of abuse suffered by migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention camps and prisons has revealed that Apple informed him his phone was targeted in a spyware attack