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Nearly 700 civilians have been killed in drone strikes in Sudan since the beginning of 2026, the United Nations has reported, while NGOs worry that the effects of the war in Iran are complicating efforts to help millions in need of humanitarian aid. The increasing use of drones in the conflict was...

A French court on Monday ruled that cement conglomerate Lafarge was guilty of paying the Islamic State (IS) group and other jihadists protection money to maintain its business in war-torn Syria. The company's former CEO Bruno Lafont was sentenced to six years in prison for financing "terrorism,”...

The United Nations secretary-general on Wednesday, April 8, warned that deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon posed a "grave risk" to the fragile U.S.-Iran truce, his spokesperson said in a statement. "The ongoing military activity in Lebanon poses a grave risk to the ceasefire and the efforts toward a...

United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply with his demands. On Tuesday evening, within hours of the planned attack, Trump took to his platform Truth...

Israel has launched renewed strikes on southern Lebanon as it continues to press forward with a ground invasion, while also waging new attacks on Beirut shortly after striking areas around the capital that had been so far removed from the conflict. At least four people were killed in a raid that hit...

Three United Nations experts have called for an independent and thorough investigation into Israel’s recent killing of three journalists in Lebanon, denouncing the deadly incident as “another egregious attack on press freedom by Israeli forces.” UN special rapporteurs Irene Khan, Morris Tidball-Binz...

Shelling, gunfire, landmines, and other explosive remnants of war have killed or injured nearly 1,200 children in Yemen, Save the Children has found, despite a United Nations-led ceasefire four years ago largely reducing hostilities. Since the truce brokered on April 2, 2022, at least 339 children...

Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure that has been harshly condemned by the international community and rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane. The passage of the bill marked the culmination of a...

Two more United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in southern Lebanon, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has said, in the latest deadly incident involving UN forces since Israel expanded its ground invasion of the country. In a statement shared on social media, UNIFIL said two...

The U.S.-Israel war on Iran has not paused. The strikes have not stopped from either side. However, diplomacy is now moving at a pace not seen since the conflict that affected Iran’s neighbors and rattled the world economy for a month. Two-day consultations of foreign ministers of Turkiye, Saudi...