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Israel Accuses Hamas of Truce Breach After Partial Hostage Remains Returned

This is Beirut, 28/10 15:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Hamas on Tuesday faced accusations of breaching the Gaza ceasefire after returning partial remains of a previously recovered hostage instead of the body of another deceased captive, as demanded by Israel. Hamas handed over late on Monday what it said was the 16th of 28 hostage bodies it had agreed to return under the US-brokered ceasefire deal, ...

PKK Withdrawal Ended First Peace Process Phase

This is Beirut, 27/10 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Turkey PKK Conflict Kurds

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Monday hailed the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkish soil as a "critical" step that completed the first phase of Ankara's peace process with the Kurdish militants. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has pursued four decades of violence against the government, began withdrawing its forces on Sunday, ...

Sudan's RSF Claims Control of Last Army Stronghold in Darfur

This is Beirut, 27/10 08:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Sudan Conflict El Fasher Massaad Boulos RSF Darfur

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had seized full control of El-Fasher, the last major city in the expansive Darfur region not in its hands, in a potential turning point in the country's unrelenting civil war. The announcement came just hours after it claimed to have captured the army's main base in the city, which it ...

Israeli Lawmakers Approve Advancement of West Bank Annexation Bills

This is Beirut, 22/10 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Israel Palestinians Conflict WestBank Settlement

Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favour of advancing two bills on annexing the occupied West Bank, an ambition openly promoted by far-right ministers in recent months. The vote came with US Vice President JD Vance visiting Israel to shore up a Gaza ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump, who has made clear he would not back ...

The Kremlin Says it is Working to Organize a Putin-Trump Summit.

This is Beirut, 16/10 23:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Kremlin said Thursday it is working to arrange a new meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, possibly in Budapest, after a lengthy phone call between the two leaders that Moscow described as “extremely frank and marked by mutual trust.” The conversation, initiated by Russia, took place on the eve of Trump’s scheduled meeting ...

Yemen's Houthis Say Military Chief Killed in Israeli Attack

This is Beirut, 16/10 17:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Houthi Israel Conflict Yemen

The military chief of Yemen's Houthi rebels has been killed in an Israeli attack, the Iran-backed group said on Thursday, threatening revenge. Major General Mohammed al-Ghamari died in "honourable battle against the Israeli enemy", a military statement said, without giving further details. His death was announced days into a ...

Negotiation: The Art of Compromise

Sana Richa Choucair, 12/10 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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This week, negotiation took center stage. After nearly two years of war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a ceasefire and the release of hostages — a breakthrough brokered in Egypt with the support of the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey. The deal marks the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace ...

Sudanese Struggle to Survive in Cities Starved Under Siege

This is Beirut, 06/10 14:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Sudan Conflict

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese civilians trapped in cities under paramilitary siege are struggling to survive, eating leaves with no aid allowed in more than two years into their country's war. AFP spoke to people in three besieged cities still nominally under army control, but which are surrounded by paramilitary forces: North Darfur ...

Yemen’s Houthis Take Responsibility for Attack on Dutch Cargo Ship

This is Beirut, 01/10 05:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Yemen Huthis Conflict

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack on a Dutch cargo ship this week in the busy shipping lane of the Gulf of Aden. The Iran-backed group, which holds swathes of territory in Yemen including the capital Sanaa, has said the attacks on commercial shipping are in support of Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas ...

Trump’s Gaza Plan: Key Reactions

This is Beirut, 30/09 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US Senator Lindsey Graham has urged Hamas to accept Donald Trump’s peace plan to end almost two years of a destructive war in Gaza, and reiterated his call to disarm Hezbollah. “I fervently hope that Hamas will say yes to president Donald Trump’s proposal to end the conflict in Gaza that includes the release of all ...

Sudan's RSF Commits 'Myriad Crimes Against Humanity': UN Probe

This is Beirut, 05/09 16:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United Nations Sudan Conflict

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan has committed numerous crimes against humanity in Sudan's civil war, in particular in its siege of El-Fasher in western Darfur, UN investigators said Friday. The United Nations' fact-finding mission for Sudan also found evidence of war crimes by both sides in the conflict between the regular ...

Drone Strike Near Syria's Aleppo Airport Kills Two: Security Official

This is Beirut, 04/09 18:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Israel Syria Drones Conflict

A Syrian security official said a drone strike near Aleppo airport on Thursday killed two people, with state media reporting the attack but without saying who may be behind it. An AFP correspondent saw a vaporized car near the airport in Syria's north, with shrapnel scattered around it. Official news agency SANA reported that "a drone targeted a ...

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