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United Nations agencies have called for an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its offensive against Hezbollah. UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) warned in a joint statement on Tuesday that the fighting, which...

A Syrian man went on trial in Germany Tuesday accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for Hezbollah on the side of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The defendant, identified by the court in Stuttgart only as 32-year-old Ammar A., faces charges including killings and...

Israeli strikes hit the United Nations peacekeepers' base in southern Lebanon on Thursday and Friday—which has injured at least four peacekeepers—has drawn widespread condemnation and outrage from global leaders. Friday's strikes in Naqoura injured two UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)...

A United Nations inquiry said on Thursday it found that Israel carried out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza’s health care system in the Gaza war, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination. A statement by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

President Kais Saied won a landslide victory in Tunisia's election Monday, keeping his grip on power after a first term in which opponents were imprisoned and the country's institutions overhauled to give him more authority. The North African country’s Independent High Authority for Elections said...

The Israeli military has carried out intense bombardment in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 17 people hours after forcing residents in the area to leave again during its third ground assault on the densely populated camp in northern Gaza since launching the war a year ago. The Palestinian...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes. In 2023, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said arrest warrants had been issued by court judges for war crimes in Libya since 2011, but these warrants were under...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Iran would pay for its missile attack on Tuesday, while Tehran said any retaliation would be met with “vast destruction,” raising fears of a wider war. In its attack on Tuesday, Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, Israel said...

A Tunisian court sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 12 years in prison on Tuesday, amid growing opposition anger against President Kais Saied, whose critics accuse him of using the judiciary to sideline his opponents. It was the third prison sentence imposed on Zammel in two weeks...

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signaled that the Isarael Defense Forces still plan to move its troops into Lebanon, telling the army, “We will use all of our capabilities—including you.” "That is what we will do, and we will deploy whatever is needed—you, other forces, from the air, from the...