US Africa Command is aware of reports that it killed a civilian Somali clan elder in an airstrike that was launched in Somalia's northern Sanag region on September 13, the command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday. AFRICOM has claimed that the airstrike killed...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who has long resisted anything resembling a settlement in the ongoing conflict with Lebanon (nominally in a state of ceasefire), has threatened to launch a new war against the country if Lebanon hasn’t fully disarmed Hezbollah by...
Updated on November 26 at 4:00 pm EST US Africa Command on Wednesday confirmed that it launched another airstrike in Somalia on Tuesday, the same day that Somali media reported that US troops took part in a ground raid on a cave and fought against ISIS militants on...
The White House has backed President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, after Bloomberg received a recording of a call he held with Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. A transcript of the call, held on October 14, shows Witkoff and Ushakov...
US special operations forces were involved in a joint raid with local forces in Somalia's northeastern Puntland region that involved an attack on a cave and ground fighting against ISIS militants, Garowe Online, a media outlet based in Puntland, reported on Tuesday....
More than 100,000 Palestinians have likely been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, according to a research team from the Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). A study conducted by the MPIDR and the Centre for Demographic Studies estimates...
Updated on November 25, 2025, at 7:19 pm EST Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to meet with President Trump "as soon as possible" to finalize an agreement on the terms for ending the war in Ukraine, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing Andriy Yermak, a top...
Violence against Alawites was enormous in March, when government-backed forces and some security forces carried out a massacre in the Tartus and Latakia Governorates, killing in excess of 1,300 Alawites, mostly civilians. The violence has lingered since then, but...
A US B-52 bomber flew near the coast of Venezuela on Monday, flight tracking data shows, as such flights have become a regular occurrence amid the US military buildup in the Caribbean and push toward a war to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. According to Air...
A week and a half ago, the UN Human Rights Office issued a statement reporting that Israel had killed 114 civilians since the beginning of the ceasefire in Lebanon. Today, they updated that number to 127 confirmed civilians, entirely on the basis of a single attack....
