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Congolese and Rwandan officials met in the United States and agreed on coordinated steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo, where government troops are fighting rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda, according to a joint statement. The statement issued by the Congolese, Rwandan, and U.S...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a temporary “pause” in hostilities during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr this week, officials said, amid weeks of deadly violence between the neighboring countries. Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Wednesday that the pause—set to run...

More than half of the Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons at the end of last year were being held without charge or trial, a Palestinian rights group has said, as concerns mount over reported abuses in Israeli detention facilities. In a statement on Wednesday, Defense for Children...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has confirmed that Israel killed Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib in an overnight attack, marking the third assassination of a high-ranking Iranian official in two days. The announcement on Wednesday comes hours after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz...

The latest heavy fighting between warring parties along Sudan’s border with Chad has killed 17 people and left many seriously wounded, a medical group said. Health authorities received 123 wounded people at a newly built hospital, of which 66 arrived in a serious condition, Doctors Without Borders...

Nigerian soldiers backed by air support repelled an attack Wednesday by suspected Islamic militants on a military base in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 80 of the assailants, the army said. The militants, suspected members of Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa Province, were...

Israel has forcibly displaced more than 36,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in one year, the United Nations says, warning that illegal Israeli settlement expansion and a push to annex the territory are accelerating. Tuesday’s report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human...

Israeli air attacks have rained down on three neighborhoods in Beirut, Lebanese state media reported, as the beleaguered nation says more than one million have been displaced since this punishing front in the wider regional war began more than two weeks ago. “A series of raids and artillery shelling...

Rescuers recovered more bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Tuesday after officials said an overnight airstrike killed more than 400 people in a dramatic escalation of a conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan that is now in its third week. Pakistan rejected...

Peru’s prime minister resigned ahead of a mandatory vote in the nation’s Congress, where she needed a majority of legislators to confirm her recent appointment. Denisse Miralles was appointed as prime minister in late February, after Interim President José Jerí was removed from his post following...