Category: World

The Syrian army has declared Maskana and Deir Hafer in the eastern Aleppo countryside closed military zones, accusing Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) forces of regrouping in the area A military source told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the SDF destroyed three bridges connecting areas under their control with government-controlled areas east of Aleppo, following days...

Three Palestinians have been killed in the southern Gaza Strip in Israel’s latest violation of October’s ceasefire in its genocidal war on the besieged enclave, according to sources in Gaza, as an anti-Hamas militia has claimed an attack that has killed a senior security officer. An Israeli quadcopter drone struck down three Palestinians in Khan Younis...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that an agreement on a security guarantee from Washington is “essentially ready” to be finalised by US President Donald Trump, following several days of negotiations in Paris. In a post on X on Thursday, Zelenskyy described the document as a cornerstone of any settlement to end the war, noting...

The Nigerian air force will take over from the United States after Washington’s Christmas Day strikes against jihadists, relying on American reconnaissance flights to support its own operations, a Nigerian official told AFP on Tuesday. On Christmas night, the United States struck sites in Sokoto State, in northwestern Nigeria , against what they described as targets linked to the Islamic...

In a small tent overshadowed by the sound of nearby gunfire, seven-year-old Tulin prepares for her first day of school in two years. For most children, this would be a moment of excitement. For Tulin and her mother, it is a chapter of terror. The relentless Israeli war has destroyed the vast majority of Gaza’s...

The Israeli military has spent the past 24 hours expanding the so-called “yellow line” in eastern Gaza, particularly in eastern Gaza City’s Tuffah, Shujayea, and Zeitoun neighbourhoods, according to Al Jazeera teams on the ground, squeezing Palestinians into ever smaller clusters of the enclave. The Israeli army’s actions on Monday are also pushing it closer...

Tens of thousands of people have been recently displaced by fighting in Sudan as the civil war rages on. The latest front in the war between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting since April 2023, is southern Kordofan. Hanan Abdallah was living in a town in west Kordofan, and...

Israeli forces have launched fresh strikes across the Gaza Strip, continuing what have been described as near-daily violations of the ceasefire agreement. The ongoing war on the enclave has compounded the suffering of displaced Palestinians, many of whom are now facing the destruction of their few remaining belongings in floods caused by heavy winter rains....

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group says the country’s army struck a fuel market in the city of Nyala, the RSF’s administrative capital, as part of an intensified aerial campaign against its positions in South Darfur. For three consecutive days ending Thursday, military drones and warplanes pounded strategic RSF sites across Nyala, including the...