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Cross-border fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan has entered its fifth day. The UN says the violence has killed 42 civilians and forced around 20,000 families to leave their homes. Pakistan said its military posts along the border came under attack by Afghan Taliban forces on Tuesday, sparking...

Israel sent troops into southern Lebanon on Tuesday and warned residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate as the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group said it was ready for an “open war” with Israel in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The development came after Hezbollah fired rockets...

At least 555 people have been killed in US-Israeli strikes across Iran, the Iranian Red Crescent Society says, amid another wave of intensive attacks and Iranian counterstrikes on Israel and United States assets in the Middle East region. At least 35 people were killed on Monday morning in southern...

The U.S. imposed sanctions Monday on the Rwandan Defense Forces and four of its senior officials for supporting the March 23 Movement, an armed group responsible for human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The latest penalties come after a U.S.-mediated peace agreement was...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability. President Donald Trump announced the death...

At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli drone attacks targeting two police posts in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis in the south, as Israel presses on with its more than two-year genocidal war on the devastated enclave. The...

Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged cross-border attacks overnight in a dramatic escalation of tensions that led Pakistan’s defense minister to say on Friday that the two countries are in a state of “open war.” Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan late Thursday, saying it was in...

A United Nations investigative body has warned that South Sudan risks “a return to full-scale war” unless it can urgently put an end to entrenched impunity and widespread abuses amid escalating violence in the world’s youngest country. The report by the UN’s Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan...

Colombia is at risk of “reverting to the serious human rights situation” it faced before a peace deal with the nation’s largest rebel group improved security conditions, the United Nations warned Thursday, adding that an uptick of violence in rural areas could also “undermine” the nation’s upcoming...

Deadly attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces on a town in Sudan’s western Darfur region have displaced more than 3,000 people in the past few days, a doctors group said Thursday as the war in the African country nears its three-year mark with no end in sight. The statement from the Sudan Doctors...