Media Coverage

Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a “heinous crime” in the targeting and killing of civil defense emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Two successive ⁠Israeli strikes on a building in the town of...

Conflict and displacement are intensifying South Sudan’s hunger crisis, with 7.8 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity while 2.2 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition, according to a joint statement on Tuesday from UN agencies. Hunger is pushing 56 percent of...

Amnesty International has called for a United States air strike on a migrant detention center in Yemen to be investigated as a possible war crime. In a report released on Tuesday, the rights group said the strike on April 28, 2025, hit a detention facility in Saada in northwestern Yemen, killing at...

Militants with the Islamic State group attacked a village overnight in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 29 people, authorities said Monday. It was the latest violence in Africa’s most populous country that has long been battling a complex security crisis. The attack took place late on Sunday...

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday ordered an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to pay $8.4 million in reparations for atrocities he oversaw as head of the Islamic police in the desert city of Timbuktu in the West African country of Mali. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was...

Mortars and missiles fired from Pakistan on Monday struck a university and civilian homes in north-eastern Afghanistan, killing seven people and wounding at least 85, Afghan officials said. The strikes were the first violent incident since Chinese-mediated peace talks between the two sides earlier...

A spate of attacks against civilians and military bases in Colombia’s southwestern region has raised security concerns as the country heads to a May presidential election in which crime is expected to be one of the top voter concerns. Rebel groups have staged 26 attacks with explosives and drones...

The president blocked accredited reporters from entering the government’s headquarters. He took to social media, in all caps, to insult the country’s news media as “filthy scum that claims to be journalists.” He posted an AI-generated image that showed a local TV journalist in an orange prison...

Syria has begun its first public trial of officials who served under longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, 15 years after the start of the civil war. Trial proceedings opened in Damascus on Sunday for Atef Najib, the former head of political security in southern Syria’s Deraa province. He is accused of...

Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world and part of the National Dialogue Quartet awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, in the latest move raising concerns over a widening crackdown...