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The government of Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland region says military strikes by the United States in the Golis Mountains killed “key figures” of the ISIL (ISIS) group. ISIL has a relatively small presence in Somalia compared with al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab, but experts have warned of growing...

A series of constitutional reforms granting sweeping new powers to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega have been passed without dissent by the country’s legislature. A unanimous vote ushered in what critics have described as a power grab by Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo. The...

Protesters demanding action over the M23 rebel group’s offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have attacked several embassies in the capital, Kinshasa. Crowds of demonstrators attacked the embassies of France, Belgium, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and the United States and smoke could...

Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around the key eastern city of Goma, leaving at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead and displacing thousands of civilians. The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial...

South Korea's prosecutors indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. Yoon's lawyers criticized the indictment as the "worst choice" made by the prosecution service, while the main opposition...

Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has issued a decree giving himself emergency powers to restore order in the rural Catatumbo region. The decree provides the president with up to 270 days to impose curfews, restrict traffic and take other steps that would normally violate Colombians’ civil rights...

Afghans who fled their home country after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 are pleading for the United States to reconsider a decision canceling all existing refugee resettlement efforts. Reactions continued to pour in against an executive order Trump had signed two days prior, on his first day...

A court in Istanbul, Turkey ordered the arrest of Umit Ozdag, president of the anti-migrant and far-right Victory Party (VP) for “public incitement to hatred and enmity”. The prosecutor’s office highlighted Ozdag’s alleged influence on anti-migrant unrest in Kayseri province in 2024. Ozdag’s...

Southeast Asian nations have told Myanmar’s military government its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority, urging it to start dialogue and end hostilities immediately. The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) called on...

Giorgi Gakharia, a former prime minister of Georgia who now leads one of the country's main opposition groups, was hospitalized after being severely beaten, a spokeswoman for his party told Reuters. The source stated that Gakharia had sustained injuries on his face and head during an assault by...