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Nigeria's foreign ministry has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as the increasing illegal recruitment of its citizens to fight in foreign conflicts. It comes after Ukrainian officials said they found the bodies of two Nigerians who they said were killed in combat last year. Nigeria...

Israel's government has approved a process to register land in the West Bank as "state property," drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the Palestinian territory. Israel's Foreign Ministry said the measure, approved late on Sunday, February 15...

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians in new attacks across Gaza, in yet another violation of the United States-brokered “ceasefire” in October, according to medical sources. The attacks on Sunday came as the Israeli military launched several attacks on southern Lebanon, targeting...

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said, as United States President Donald Trump announced that his newly formed Board of Peace has pledged $5bn to rebuild the war-devastated territory. The Israeli killings on Sunday mark the latest...

Israeli forces have bombed a vehicle near Lebanon’s border with Syria, killing at least four people, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. The Israeli air strike took place early on Monday morning, it said in a statement. The Israeli military said the raid took place in the Majdal...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and two of his senior cabinet ministers were the targets of five foiled assassination attempts by ISIL (ISIS) over the past year, according to a report by the United Nations. The document, released on Wednesday by the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, underscores the...

Kosovo’s parliament has approved a new government led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti after more than a year of political deadlock amid ongoing tensions with Serbia. Lawmakers in the 120-member assembly backed Kurti’s cabinet in a 66-49 vote on Wednesday, hours after parliament convened for the first...

The forced recruitment of children by illegal armed groups in Colombia has quadrupled over the last five years, UNICEF said Thursday, citing a surge in regional violence and a systemic lack of opportunities within vulnerable communities. “Children are not merely caught in the crossfire; they are...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for national unity in the face of external threats while insisting that his government is willing to negotiate over its nuclear program, at a huge public ceremony in Tehran commemorating the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic...

At least four people, including a woman and her child, have been killed in Russian drone attacks on Ukraine, according to local officials. The Ukrainian air force said in a statement on Monday that Russian forces fired 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones across Ukraine overnight. The attacks killed...