Sudan’s military says it has broken a nearly two-year siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a key town in the Kordofan region, gaining control over major supply lines. 
  
In a statement late on Monday, the military said it had opened a road leading to South Kordofan province’s Dilling town. 
  
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from the Sudanese capital Khartoum, described the army’s takeover of Dilling as a “very significant gain” that may lead to more advances in the province. 
   

The Israeli military says the remains of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli captive in the Gaza Strip, have been retrieved, clearing the way for the next phase of a ceasefire deal agreed in October. 
  
“Following the completion of the identification process by the National Centre of Forensic Medicine, in cooperation with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate, [military] representatives informed the family of the late Ran Gvili that his body has been returned for burial,” said army spokesman Avichay Adraee. 
  

Authorities in Venezuela have freed more than 100 people listed as political prisoners, according to a rights group, including a lawyer who was imprisoned in 2024 after visiting clients at a detention facility. 
  
The Caracas-based Foro Penal said at least 104 prisoners were released on Sunday and that the number could rise. 
  
Gonzalo Himiob, Foro Penal’s vice president, said the number of releases was “non-definitive” and could increase. 
  

This study aims to communicate the perspectives, expectations, and needs of South Sudanese displaced persons to relevant policymakers and thereby inform the ongoing transitional justice efforts emanating from South Sudan’s 2018 revitalized peace agreement. It also provides lessons learned from comparative experiences with a view to strengthening the capacity of South Sudanese government policymakers, victims, civil society organizations, and religious and community leaders as they design and implement transitional justice mechanisms.

The Iranian state has rejected a resolution by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council that strongly condemned the “violent crackdown on peaceful protests” by security forces that left thousands dead. 
  
After a detailed meeting and discussions in Geneva on Friday, 25 members of the council, including France, Japan, and South Korea, voted in favor of the censure resolution. 
  

A ceasefire between Syria’s military and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been extended by 15 more days, officials said, hours after the four-day truce expired. 
  
Syria’s Defense Ministry said late on Saturday that the extension, which began at 11 pm local time, aims to support a United States operation to transfer ISIL (ISIS) prisoners from detention facilities previously controlled by the SDF. 
 

Haiti’s long-running political crisis deepened Friday when the country’s transitional presidential council announced it had voted to fire Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, just two weeks before the panel is supposed to step down. 
  
Edgard Leblanc Fils made the announcement at a news conference alongside fellow council member Leslie Voltaire, saying a majority of the panel took the step in a vote Thursday, defying calls from the U.S. government to maintain stability in the Caribbean country’s leadership.  
  

Israel said it attacked four crossing points on the Syria-Lebanon border, saying they were used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, following earlier attacks on southern Lebanon that killed at least two people and injured almost 20. 
  
This latest violence on Wednesday comes despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, which ended more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon in 2024 and which Israel has repeatedly violated.