The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartous after four days of fighting between security forces and pro-Assad armed fighters. The unrest came only three months after the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in an offensive by opposition fighters. Reports from the Latakia region told…
South Sudan has seen an “alarming regression” as clashes in recent weeks in the country’s northeast threaten to undo years of progress towards peace, the United Nations commission on human rights for the country has warned. The statement on Saturday from Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, comes…
UN envoy expresses alarm and urges restraint on all sides amid clashes between security forces, Civilians have reportedly been among the hundreds killed in violence in Syria, as government forces surge to the country’s northwest to respond to fighters loyal to the ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. The situation represents the greatest challenge yet to interim…
More than 250 people reportedly killed in Syria’s west as Alawite loyalists clash with security forces. Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has urged the Alawite minority to surrender after intense fighting with the Syrian security forces. Hasan Abdel-Ghani, spokesperson for the Syrian Defence Ministry, told Al Jazeera on Friday that fighters loyal to former President…
Syria’s Alawite stronghold sees days of deadly violence between al-Assad loyalists and security forces. Security forces in Syria are battling gunmen loyal to deposed President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s coastal region for a second day, with dozens of people reported killed in the fighting. Syrian authorities said remnants of the removed al-Assad regime launched…
A public meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended into a spat. A visit that Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskyy hoped would secure US support in the face of Russia’s invasion, instead ended in a very public argument. The meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House was supposed to be about signing…
On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European nations find themselves in a transatlantic rift with their ally the United States. Under President Donald Trump, the US and Russia have started peace talks and excluded Ukraine and Europe from the process. Many European leaders, frustrated with Trump’s conduct regarding Ukraine, are now working…
Fighting is intensifying in the east of the country as diplomacy appears to fail. Anxiety is growing in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are advancing in the east, spreading out across north and south Kivu and are moving towards the city of Uvira. Many regional players are…
Here are the key developments on the 1,093rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Friday, February 21: Fighting Russian forces took back more than 800 square kilometres (309 square miles) from Ukrainian troops in western Russia’s Kursk region, the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reported, quoting Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi, head…
European leaders have said they are ready to give Ukraine security guarantees and warned that it would be dangerous for Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire without a negotiated peace agreement in place with Moscow, officials said. The offer of a European security commitment to Ukraine was made at a meeting in Paris on Monday,…
