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Hamas has handed over the bodies of an Israeli woman, her two young children, and an elderly man who were taken captive during the October 2023 attack on southern Israel. Hamas staged a public handover ceremony in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, displaying four coffins on a stage in front of a poster...

The Netherlands agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were looted in the late 19th...

The Israeli army has continued with its large-scale military raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, forcing thousands to flee their homes. Wednesday, February 19 marks 30 days since Israeli forces began their assault on Jenin which then spread to other parts of...

A top Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday, a surprise increase that apparently comes in return for Israel allowing mobile homes and construction equipment into the devastated Gaza Strip. The six are the...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk accused Rwanda-backed rebels, who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid. Turk said in a statement that his office “confirmed cases...

Nearly two years of conflict have fueled a catastrophic protection crisis and displaced a staggering 12 million people in Sudan and across borders. Fighting continues to kill and injure civilians and destroy hospitals, markets, and other essential infrastructure. Nearly two-thirds of the population...

Security forces in Syria said on Monday that they arrested three people involved in the execution of hundreds of civilians by government forces in Damascus in 2013, two years after the country’s 13-year civil war began. Dozens of police and security trucks lined the streets of Tadamon, a Damascus...

Rwanda-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have promised to “restore security” in Bukavu, the second major city in the country’s east to fall under the control of the M23 since late last month. Residents of the capital of South Kivu province were tentatively walking the...

Hamas said it would release three more Israeli hostages as planned, paving the way toward resolving a major dispute over the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The militant group had threatened to delay the next release of captives after accusing Israel of failing to meet its obligations to allow in tents...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) called for a ceasefire in Sudan during the coming holy month of Ramadan, a UAE official said. The call was rejected by the Sudanese army, as the country's civil war approaches the two-year mark. The army considers the UAE to be an aggressor of the war, accusing it of...