Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli troops along length of Lebanese border

Hezbollah said on Wednesday its fighters had pushed back advancing Israeli troops in clashes along the length of the border, a day after Israel said it had killed two successors to the Iran-backed ...

Netanyahu says Israel killed Nasrallah's first and second replacement

Israeli forces have killed the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without naming them. Tap for the full...

Haiti gangs are recruiting more child soldiers, human rights report says

Haiti's armed gangs are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks, a report by Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday, as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are se...

Russia's Wagner says it has recovered bodies of mercenaries killed in Mali

Russia's Wagner mercenary group said that its fighters had recovered the bodies of its mercenaries killed in a July battle with Tuareg rebels and Islamists during a desert sandstorm in Mali. Tap fo...

Sudan's warring sides target local aid volunteers fighting famine

Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan's most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the wo...

Russia, Burkina Faso talk military cooperation

Russia's Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and prime minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire J. Kyelem de Tambela, discussed in Moscow expanding military ties, the Russian defense ministry said Tuesda...

Russia hands Marine veteran Trevor Reed 14 year sentence in absentia

A Russian court on Wednesday found Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine who was freed by Russia in a 2022 prisoner swap, guilty in absentia of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine and handed him a priso...

Vietnam upgrades ties with France to highest level

Vietnam and France have officially upgraded their relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership", Vietnam's highest level, during a visit by Vietnamese President To Lam to Paris. Tap for the ...

Ukraine eyes peace summit by year-end that includes Russia, envoy to Turkey says

Ukraine aims to organize a new peace summit by the end of this year and wants Russia to attend this time, its ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday, but ruled out any direct bilateral talks with M...

Hezbollah deputy chief backs Lebanon ceasefire efforts, omits mention of Gaza deal

Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said in comments broadcast on Tuesday that his movement supports efforts to reach a ceasefire for Lebanon, but for the first time omitted any mention of a Gaza t...

A year after Oct. 7, Hamas faces blame among Gazans

Samira, a mother of two, yearns for her old life when she was an Arabic teacher and had a comfortable home — before the attack by Hamas on Israel a year ago plunged Gaza into suffering and chaos. T...

Mexico reels from latest attacks as Sheinbaum prepares to announce new security policy

President Claudia Sheinbaum will present her strategy for confronting Mexico's dire security situation on Tuesday amid a backdrop of high-profile violence including the brutal murder of a local may...

Hacker attack disrupts Russian state media on Putin's birthday

Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country's main national TV stations, was targeted in a cyberattack Monday — that a Ukrainian government source said Kyiv's hackers had...

Burkina Faso's junta suspends US-funded VOA over insurgency comment

Burkina Faso's junta has suspended U.S.-funded broadcaster Voice of America for three months over comments about a jihadi insurgency in West Africa's Sahel region — and temporarily banned local out...

Russian forces reach another key frontline city, Ukraine's military says

Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine's military said late on Monday, less than a week after the fall of the bastion town of Vuhledar. ...