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Close to 15 million people voted for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a presidential primary organized by Turkiye’s main opposition CHP, municipal officials said. In a sign of growing national support, the party announced late on Monday that an estimated 1.7 million members were joined by 13...

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels pounded sites across the country, with the group saying one attack in the capital killed at least two people and wounded more than a dozen others. The American strikes on the rebels, who threaten maritime trade and Israel, entered their 10th day...

Pakistan’s security forces said 16 militants were killed on Sunday in a remote northwestern border area as they tried to cross the border with neighboring Afghanistan. A military statement said the “Khwarij,” a phrase the government uses for Pakistani Taliban, attempted to enter Pakistan from Ghulam...

Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounded 14, Ukrainian officials said, despite agreeing to a limited ceasefire. Zaporizhzhia was hit by 12 drones, police said. Regional head Ivan Fedorov said that residential buildings, cars, and communal...

Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip and blew up the only specialized cancer hospital in the war-torn territory, as Israeli leaders vowed to capture more land until Hamas releases its remaining hostages. The hospital was located in the Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in two and...

Israel's Supreme Court issued an injunction temporarily freezing the dismissal of the head of the domestic intelligence service as protestors returned to the streets for a fourth day. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had lost confidence in Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and intended to...

The Houthis have launched a hypersonic missile at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, days after the Israeli army broke a ceasefire in Gaza, the Yemeni group said. “The Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ceasefire this week by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents as the M23 rebel group expands its footprint in the conflict-torn African country. The decades-long conflict in...

Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted to pass a controversial revision of its military law on Thursday that will allow military officers to serve in more government posts without resigning from the armed forces, despite growing opposition from pro-democracy and rights groups who see it as a...

Turkish authorities detained 37 people for sharing “provocative” content on social media, the interior minister, pressing ahead with a crackdown on dissenting voices that escalated with the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mayor Ekrem...