Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said, as United States President Donald Trump announced that his newly formed Board of Peace has pledged $5bn to rebuild the war-devastated territory. 
  
The Israeli killings on Sunday mark the latest violation of a U.S.-brokered “ceasefire” that came into effect on October 10. 
 

Israeli forces have bombed a vehicle near Lebanon’s border with Syria, killing at least four people, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. 
  
The Israeli air strike took place early on Monday morning, it said in a statement. 
   
The Israeli military said the raid took place in the Majdal Anjar area of Lebanon. 
    

Gunmen on motorcycles have rampaged through three villages in northern Nigeria, killing at least 46 people and abducting several more, according to witnesses and local police. 
  
The raids by gunmen happened in villages in the Borgu local government area in Niger State, on the border with Kwara and Katsina states, a humanitarian source told AFP news agency on Saturday. 
 

More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality” in Sudan’s Darfur region in late October, according to the United Nations. 
  
The Rapid Support Forces’ offensive to capture the city of el-Fasher included widespread atrocities that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, the UN Human Rights Office said in a report released on Friday. 
   

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has claimed victory in the country’s first election since the 2024 uprising, positioning itself to form the next government and potentially reshape Bangladesh’s political landscape after years of intense rivalry and disputed polls. 
   
The final tally has not yet been announced by the Election Commission, but several local media outlets reported the BNP crossing the 151-seat threshold needed for a majority in the 350-member Parliament. 
   

Syrian ⁠forces ⁠have taken control of the strategic al-Tanf military base near the border with Iraq and Jordan, the Syrian Defence Ministry has said, amid the withdrawal of a longstanding United States troop presence at the base. 
  
The ministry said in a statement on Thursday that Syrian Arab Army units had taken control of al-Tanf, securing the base and its surroundings, “through coordination between the Syrian and American sides.” 
 

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and two of his senior cabinet ministers were the targets of five foiled assassination attempts by ISIL (ISIS) over the past year, according to a report by the United Nations. 
  
The document, released on Wednesday by the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, underscores the persistent threat posed by the armed group, which is reportedly using front organizations to destabilize Syria’s transitional government. 
 

Kosovo’s parliament has approved a new government led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti after more than a year of political deadlock amid ongoing tensions with Serbia. 
  
Lawmakers in the 120-member assembly backed Kurti’s cabinet in a 66-49 vote on Wednesday, hours after parliament convened for the first time since his Vetevendosje party won a snap election in December.  
 

The forced recruitment of children by illegal armed groups in Colombia has quadrupled over the last five years, UNICEF said Thursday, citing a surge in regional violence and a systemic lack of opportunities within vulnerable communities. 
 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for national unity in the face of external threats while insisting that his government is willing to negotiate over its nuclear program, at a huge public ceremony in Tehran commemorating the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic. 
  
Large crowds gathered in the capital and other cities around the country in a show of support for the government as Iran observed the 1979 anniversary amid one of the most difficult moments in the country’s recent history.