At least 12 people were killed and 49 hospitalised, including six children, as a result of shelling in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the region’s governor said on Sunday. A nine-storey building was partially destroyed overnight, five oth…
US says failed rocket attack targeted American troops in Syria
The US military said late on Saturday that unidentified forces fired a rocket at a compound in Syria hosting US troops and partnered local forces, but failed to cause any injuries or damage. The military, in a short statement, said the 107 mm rocket fa…
Malicioussabotage halts rail traffic in northern Germany
Attackers cut cables vital for the rail network in two places causing a near three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning, in what authorities called an act of sabotage without identifying who might be responsible. The fe…
Crimea bridge blast could escalate Russia’s war in Ukraine
A truck bomb Saturday caused a fire and the collapse of a section of a bridge linking Russia-annexed Crimea with Russia, Russian officials say, damaging a key supply artery for Moscow’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. The speaker of Crimea’s …
Ukraine troops involved in tough fighting around key eastern town
Ukrainian troops are involved in very tough fighting near the strategically importanteastern town of Bakhmut, which Russia is trying to take, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in video address on Saturday. Although Ukrainian troops have recaptured tho…
Israeli police report shooting at Jerusalem checkpoint
Armed individuals late Saturday opened fire at an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem, seriously wounding at least two people, Israeli police said. Police were searching for the armed individuals. They said the wounded included a female Israe…
Bernie Sanders angrily tells Saudi to ‘seek Putin’s help’
US Senator Bernie Sanders has angrily called on Saudi Arabia to “get Putin to defend its monarchy”, saying that the US should “pull out all its troops” from the Gulf kingdom. His comments, made on social media, followed an OPEC announcement of its bigg…
Israel called out for ‘stands with Iranian women’ hypocrisy
Israel has been accused of hypocrisy for its messages backing the ongoing wave of women-led protests in Iran. On Thursday, the official account ofthe mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, shared a video in which the words ‘Women Life Freedom’, a rallying cry …
Hundreds protest in Syria against regime trade corridors
A Libyan human rights activist said on Saturday that 15 migrants whose charred bodies were found a day earlier were killed by smugglers in the country’s west. “We have followed with concern the killing of 15 asylum seekers and irregular migrants of dif…
Hundreds protest in Syria against regime trade corridors
Hundreds of people in Syria’s rebel-held northern province of Idlib protested on Friday against the opening of trade corridors with regime-held territory. Over 300 protesters took to the streets of the town of Atmeh in the north of Idlib province after…