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Drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Of those killed, 17 were children and 43 were adults not believed to be members of any criminal group. Of those injured, at least 49 were...

Guinea’s government has dissolved 40 political parties, including the country’s three main opposition groups, in a move critics say marks the final step toward a one-party state under President Mamady Doumbouya. The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization issued the decree late...

Intense air attacks have pounded Tehran and other Iranian cities on the seventh day of the U.S.-Israeli war on the country, amid warnings from United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the bombardment was “about to surge dramatically”. Israel’s military said on Friday morning it had begun a...

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon this week has risen to at least 123 people, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health says, as a new wave of strikes pounded the country and Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5km (3 miles) of their northern border, in one of the...

Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes on Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors—a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be an “open war.”...

The government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have announced they have retaken the city of Bara, the second-largest city in North Kordofan state in the west of the war-torn country, following a military operation they said resulted in expelling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from the city and...

Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, abducting more than 300 people, including women and children, local officials said. The attack happened in the town of Ngoshe in Borno state, according to Bulama Sawa, an official from the Gwoza area. He told The Associated Press...

Uganda helped South Sudan carry out airstrikes that killed and badly burned civilians a year ago, according to a UN inquiry. Joint aerial bombardments by South Sudan and Uganda “targeted civilian-populated areas predominantly affecting Nuer communities in opposition-affiliated areas,” said the...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday it has fired 230 drones at several facilities hosting U.S. troops in the Middle East, including a base in Erbil in northern Iraq and the Ali Al Salem Air Base and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. The IRGC said the attacks were among its “first...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for Israel to reopen Gaza’s border crossings, which have been closed by Israel since its forces launched a war against Iran with the United States. The Rafah crossing into Gaza from Egypt, the only gateway for Palestinians in Gaza to the...