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The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has called on his party to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Turkiye and have a wider impact on the region. A delegation of Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party visited Ocalan in...

Israel will not withdraw from a strategic corridor in the Gaza Strip as called for by the ceasefire, says an official. Israel’s refusal could spark a crisis with Hamas and key mediator Egypt at a sensitive moment for the fragile truce. Hours earlier, Hamas released the remains of four hostages in...

For more than 40 years, people in Hama spoke in whispers about the February 1982 massacre that then-President Hafez al-Assad unleashed on this city. Speaking about it could lead a Syrian to join the hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in al-Assad’s prisons. Now, Syria’s fourth-largest city...

Rwanda has said international sanctions will reduce the likelihood of peace with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after the United Kingdom said it would pause some bilateral aid and impose other diplomatic sanctions on Kigali. “The punitive measures announced today by the UK...

Judges of the Supreme Court at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court announced on Wednesday that they have upheld the 15-year prison sentence for former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Salih Mustafa, who was found guilty of arbitrary detention, torture, and murder. The court...

Syria’s de facto leader reiterated his pledge to deliver a democratic political transition as talks on the country’s future opened. Ahmed al-Sharaa urged his countrymen to unite and pledged to establish a transitional justice body, as he welcomed participants of a national dialogue aimed at guiding...

Argentina’s President Javier Milei temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a particularly controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power. The president’s office said it was within Milei’s...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded the complete demilitarization of much of southern Syria. It is an announcement that could make conflict between Israel and the new leadership in Syria, after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, more likely. In a speech to Israeli military...

The European Union has lifted select sanctions on Syria as part of an effort to support democratic development during the country’s political transition. The bloc announced that it had suspended restrictions on oil, gas, and electricity, along with sanctions on the transport sector including...

Friedrich Merz, who is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor, says he would make sure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can visit Germany despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Speaking to reporters, a day after his conservative Christian...