Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday, expanding its confrontation with Iran's allies in the region after killing the Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in an escalating conflict in Lebanon. The airstrikes on Yemen's port of Hodeidah were in response t
At least six people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday by bomb explosions in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and a town in the country's Middle Shabelle region, police and witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attacks, although Islamist militant group al-
A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world's largest internal displacement crisis, and pushed at least one area in Darfur into famine. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tensions had been building for months before fighting betw
An Egyptian warship has delivered a second major cache of weaponry to Somalia including anti-aircraft guns and artillery, port and military officials said on Monday, in a move likely to stoke further friction between the two countries and Ethiopia.Ties between Egypt and Somalia have grown th
Mali said on Tuesday that the capital Bamako was under control after insurgents attacked a gendarmerie training school and other areas before dawn, firing gunshots that reverberated around the city. "Early this morning, a group of terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Faladie gendarmeri
Malaysia has crowned its new billionaire King in a traditional ceremony marked with pomp and cannon fire. King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, 65, has pledged to govern fairly during the five-year t
Turkish TV channel TRT Spor has apologised for broadcasting an incident in which a woman accidentally exposed herself during the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League match between Turkey and the United StatesTurkish TV apologized for an accidental expos
Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash this month has prompted two scrambles for power, both for power and for Raisi’s place as a leading candidate to succeed Ayatoll
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is welcomed upon his arrival at Damascus airport in Syria on May 3, 2023. (Reuters/Yamam al Shaar)ran's President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash, an Iranian official and Mehr news agency reported on Mon
The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has been officially declared
