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Israeli forces have advanced into the Quneitra area of Syria’s occupied Golan Heights and set up two military checkpoints, an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground reports. The Israeli military operation on Saturday took place in the villages of Ain Ziwan and al-Ajraf in the southern part of the...

The UN Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and extended the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S.-mediated peace deal. The UN’s most powerful body on...

Tens of thousands of people on Thursday filled the streets of Bulgaria’s capital and other major cities in the country, calling for a fair election and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption. The demonstrations in Sofia and elsewhere came after last week’s protests...

Violence broke out in Bangladesh’s capital after a youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising, who was injured in an assassination attempt, died in a hospital in Singapore. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka early on Friday after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32...

At least 16 people have been killed in an artillery bombardment of a besieged city in Sudan’s embattled Kordofan region, adding to a mounting civilian death toll as the country’s brutal civil war enters a critical phase deep into its third year. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the detention of 10 more UN staff members by the Houthis in Yemen. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for Guterres, confirmed on Friday that the previous day’s arrests had brought the total of detained local staffers to 69, calling for...

Israeli warplanes have struck multiple areas across southern and eastern Lebanon, targeting sites in al-Jabour, al-Qatrani and al-Rayhan in the south, as well as Buday and Hermel in the Bekaa Valley, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground. The raids, which also hit Wadi Al-Qusayr...

The arbitrary detention of hundreds of gen Z protesters in Morocco and alleged “horrific” beatings have been condemned by human rights groups, as the country prepares to host the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday. A wave of youth-led demonstrations swept across Morocco in late September and early...

Mass protests have filled the streets of several Romanian cities for a fifth day in a row against alleged judicial corruption. Thousands took to the streets of the capital Bucharest and other cities on Sunday to show support for judges and prosecutors that denounced systemic abuse in the judicial...

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted Monday in a landmark national security trial, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude...