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Russia on Monday, May 4, declared a unilateral ceasefire with Ukraine between May 8-9, when Moscow marks its annual World War II Victory Day commemorations, and threatened a "massive missile strike" on Kyiv if Ukraine violated it. Ukraine responded by declaring its own truce from May 6, saying it...

Boko Haram militants have killed 23 soldiers in an attack on a military post in the Lake Chad region, Chad’s armed forces said Tuesday. The region has long been threatened by the Nigeria-based Boko Haram militant group, which is known for carrying out attacks in neighboring countries. Chad’s...

Mali’s junta leader and the country’s president has assumed the duties of defense minister, authorities said Monday, after the incumbent was killed in sweeping, coordinated attacks by separatist and jihadi forces that stunned the West African nation. The announcement comes after Defense Minister Gen...

Israel has launched multiple strikes across southern Lebanon, killing at least 10 people in further violations of the “ceasefire” declared two weeks ago. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said the latest wave of attacks on Saturday increased the total recorded over the previous 24 hours to 41. The...

Israeli military forces have intercepted boats traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla, using drones, communications jamming technology, and armed raiding parties to halt the humanitarian fleet in the middle of the Mediterranean as it heads to Gaza, according to organizers and Israeli media. “Our...

More than 1.2 million people in Lebanon are expected to face acute hunger this year due to “conflict, displacement, and economic pressures” amid the latest war between Israel and Hezbollah, according to a United Nations-backed report. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food...

Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a “heinous crime” in the targeting and killing of civil defense emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Two successive ⁠Israeli strikes on a building in the town of...

Conflict and displacement are intensifying South Sudan’s hunger crisis, with 7.8 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity while 2.2 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition, according to a joint statement on Tuesday from UN agencies. Hunger is pushing 56 percent of...

Amnesty International has called for a United States air strike on a migrant detention center in Yemen to be investigated as a possible war crime. In a report released on Tuesday, the rights group said the strike on April 28, 2025, hit a detention facility in Saada in northwestern Yemen, killing at...

Militants with the Islamic State group attacked a village overnight in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 29 people, authorities said Monday. It was the latest violence in Africa’s most populous country that has long been battling a complex security crisis. The attack took place late on Sunday...