Taliban confirm release of two Americans in prisoner exchange
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban confirm release of two Americans in prisoner exchange.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban confirm release of two Americans in prisoner exchange.
Israel accuses Hamas of ‘complete violation’ of ceasefire agreement and says its military now on 'highest alert'
Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, according to Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News TV, which is close to the country's security agencies. Hamas has warned it will delay the next release of hostages scheduled for Saturday, saying Israel has violated the truce by firing on people in Gaza and not allowing the agreed-upon number of tents, shelters and other vital aid to enter the territory. The Israeli military says it has fired on people who approach its forces or enter certain areas in violation of the truce.
Tensions are rising as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that fighting in Gaza will resume, if Hamas does not release hostages by Saturday.
Nearly 500 days after Hamas gunmen seized him from a roadside bomb shelter in southern Israel, Alon Ohel managed to get a message out from the Gaza tunnel where he is being held by the Palestinian militants. He sent a birthday wish for his sister via two other hostages who had been held with him and were freed on Saturday, his mother Idit Ohel said. "Alon has been in the tunnels all this time," Ohel told Reuters in an interview.
Three men tell the BBC they have crossed the border multiple times to fight the military.
In a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House, President Trump reiterated his plan to have the U.S. take control of Gaza and relocate its residents.
Israel called up its reserve forces on Wednesday after Hamas ordered senior leaders to stop using mobile phones as both sides prepared for fighting in Gaza to restart.
The 86-year-old is one of the hostages meant to be freed by Hamas within the next three weeks.
More than 250 foreign and Israeli hostages were taken by Hamas in the 7 October attack, according to Israeli tallies
As the war moves to the West Bank, Palestinian security forces stun residents as they operate in occupied streets in cooperation with the Israeli army
Israel's defence minister calls the Hamas announcement a "complete violation of the ceasefire agreement".
(Reuters) -Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's widely condemned plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza and take control of the enclave. Egypt's foreign ministry said Abdelatty, in a meeting in Washington, stressed the importance of expediting Gaza's reconstruction while Palestinians remained there.
Sheikh Hasina, deposed last year, is accused of putting down protests that left up to 1,400 people dead.
Netanyahu says the Israeli military is ready to ‘return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its war against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next scheduled release of hostages on Saturday. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement, including by not allowing a surge of tents and shelters into the devastated territory. U.S. President Donald Trump threated that “all hell” will break out if the militant group does not release the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Saturday.
Short-range aerial drones were the most common killer of civilians in Ukraine in January, the U.N.'s monitoring mission said on Tuesday, highlighting how drone use has ballooned during three years of war with Russia. The U.N. mission said at least 139 civilians were killed and 738 wounded in January 2025, with 27% of the deaths and 30% of the injuries caused by short-range drones. In total, the U.N. says nearly 12,500 civilians have been killed in the war including 650 children - though it has repeatedly said its tally is an undercount since it only includes deaths its teams have managed to verify.
North Korea has given Russia 200 long-range artillery pieces, a South Korean defence ministry official told AFP on Tuesday, as Moscow and Pyongyang deepen their military ties.The North has given Moscow "some 11,000 troops, missiles, 200 pieces of long-range artillery and a substantial amount of ammunition," the South Korean official said.
Bangladesh's former government was behind systematic attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, the UN said on Wednesday, warning that the abuses could amount to "crimes against humanity".These alleged crimes committed by the government, along with violent elements of Hasina's Awami League party and the Bangladeshi security and intelligence services, were part of "a widespread and systematic attack against protesters and other civilians", OHCHR's report into the
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s largest city Goma.
After luxury companies invested billions in China’s market, the country’s consumers turned to new pricey purchases.