Thirty militants have been killed in recent days in large-scale military operations in Middle Shabelle region and surrounding areas in south-eastern Somalia. In a press statement on Tuesday, Somali Defence…
Tahrir al-Sham commander Ahmad al-Sharaa has vowed to “disband armed factions” and integrate their fighters into the new Syrian army. This came in a statement on behalf of a coalition…
Iranian President Masoud Bazeshkian will visit Egypt on Thursday to attend the G8 summit, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced. Iranian media revealed a few days ago that Iranian President…
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck the southwestern town of Makurazaki in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture today. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the epicentre was at a…
Fires consumed some 29.7 million hectares of land in Brazil between January and November 2024, the largest area burned in six years and almost double the previous year, according to…
A senior Russian army official has been killed in an explosion near a residential building in south-east Moscow this morning (Tuesday), according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s main investigative…
China successfully launched a new set of satellites into space on Tuesday from a satellite launch centre in Taiyuan, northern Shaanxi province. The launch took place at 02:50 Beijing time…
The head of Kyrgyzstan’s presidential administration, Akilbek Jabarov, has announced his resignation. According to the Kyrgyz news agency ‘Kabar’, Jabarov said goodbye to the staff of the presidential administration today,…
The United Nations Mission in Libya (UNMIL) announced on Sunday the formation of a technical committee of Libyan experts to identify key milestones and priorities for a consensus government to…
Qatar announced on Sunday that it will reopen its embassy in Syria on Tuesday after being closed for nearly 13 years, following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad’s regime by opposition…