Turkey is developing a space and ballistic missile launch site in central Somalia, combining a satellite launch base for the Turkish space program with a testing site for long-range ballistic missiles, according to a report on Wednesday by French newspaper La Monde.
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors in Rome against Israeli soldier Arik Ben Asulin, alleging that he had committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide during Israel's war on Gaza.
Valery Averin is among the first Russian students known to have died in the war after being signed up in a recruitment drive in educational institutions
America reaches its 250th anniversary confronting one of the great paradoxes of modern democracy. No nation has accumulated greater economic, military, technological, and cultural power, yet few advanced democracies appear so dissatisfied with themselves. Partly this is because of a colossal political dysfunction, a…
Houthi forces fired air defense missiles at a Saudi warplane that entered Yemeni airspace near Sanaa International Airport, the group claimed in a Friday statement by spokesperson Yahya Sarea.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has berated and belittled many of his European counterparts expected to attend next week's NATO summit in Turkey. But host Recep Tayyip Erdogan has drawn on his close ties with the U.S. leader to secure his presence at the Ankara event — an appearance that may even come with a sig…
The United States has warned Poland that Russia is preparing a potential military "provocation" against the country, according to sources close to Polish President Karol Nawrocki cited by Polish outlet Onet.
The Israel-Lebanon framework agreement “threatens to betray the victims of war crimes” in Lebanon, according to six prominent human rights and media freedom organisations.
In managing protracted conflicts, pressure does not always succeed where war itself has failed, nor can political settlements alone guarantee a change in behaviour shaped over decades. For this reason, states sometimes resort to instruments more complex than conventional deterrence, designed not merely to raise cost…
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine shattered Europe’s sleepy assumption that war in Europe was a relic of history while also showing that the breakneck speed of technical advances is becoming a barrier to scaling up defences.
For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the 50th anniversary was less a celebration of one of Israel’s most mythologized military operations than a reckoning with the distance between the country that rescued them and the one that failed to prevent another mass hostage crisis decades later.
The African Union called an emergency meeting on Friday about its military mission in Somalia after the United States said it would end critical funding from next year.
Russia is in the throes of a fuel crisis that has triggered rationing, long lines at gas stations, soaring prices and reports of empty pumps in several regions following a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries and energy infrastructure.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has defended his country’s NATO defence spending, shortly after US President Donald Trump re-upped his criticism of alliance members.
More than 640,000 displaced people in Lebanon have returned home after a deal to end the war, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
TEN years after its promulgation, the 2016 ruling of the arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague on the China-Philippines conflict over the South China Sea draws focus of interest invariably on the legal angle. This matter is amply taken care of by the book “The South China Sea Arb…
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor’s office has not applied for a single arrest warrant over crimes committed in Sudan's Darfur region since the country's devastating war began in April 2023, despite more than three years of investigation and repeated public assurances that charges were imminent, Middle E…
Yemen's armed forces said on Friday they confronted Saudi "warplanes" that they said attempted to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft from landing at Sanaa International Airport, according to a statement by military spokesperson Yahya Sarea.
On Friday morning, Abdullah, a lawyer in the Sudanese city of el-Obeid, had a moment of peace to reflect on two weeks of drone strikes and over three years of war.
General view of the outside of the Central Criminal Court, commonly known as the Old Bailey, in London, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
BERLIN — Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda warned Friday that NATO risks fracturing if some member states fail to meet the alliance's target of spending 5 percent of gross domestic product on defense.
Syrians have filed through the capital, Damascus, to mourn the victims of a bomb blast that ripped through a cafe, near the Palace of Justice, killing nine people, including six lawyers.
LONDON (AP) — Three men were acquitted of murder Friday in the killing of Belfast journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot by a member of a dissident Irish Republican Army splinter group while covering a 2019 riot in Northern Ireland.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has berated and belittled many of his European counterparts expected to attend next week's NATO summit in Turkey. But host Recep Tayyip Erdogan has drawn on his close ties with the U.S. leader to secure his presence at the Ankara event — an appearance that may even come with a sig…
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, speaks with NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich, right, during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Interpol has identified a Ukrainian woman as the main suspect in a bomb attack in Monaco that reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia, according to officials.
Bashar Hilal, 10, plays with dogs left behind by their owners after they fled following the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, at an animal shelter in the village of Kfaroue, near Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, Thursday, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Mahmoud Mabrouk is a classical Arabic singer from Gaza who has been given the prospect of a fresh start outside the war-torn enclave with a one-way ticket to France to settle with his wife and toddler to work on his art.
On Thursday a bomb ripped through crowded cafe in central Damascus, killing at least nine people and wounding 22 others, in an attack very near the main entrance of the Palace of Justice - in an area frequented by lawyers, courthouse employees and visitors.