In an announcement on Monday, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced that they have agreed to totally disarm and disband, aiming to end a multi-decade conflict with the Turkish government. Turkish President Erdogan praised the move, calling it a move toward...
Gaza's Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks killed 29 Palestinians and wounded 94 as Israel has continued its strikes amid a total blockade that's been imposed for more than 70 days. The Health Ministry said that another four bodies of Palestinians killed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza was "inevitable." "We are destroying more and more homes, and Gazans have nowhere to return to. The only inevitable outcome will be the wish of Gazans to...
On Monday, Hamas released Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old New Jersey-born IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Alexander was handed over to the Red Cross, which transferred him to the Israeli military. He was freed as a result of...
UN aid agencies have condemned a US-Israeli plan to use aid as "bait" to forcibly displace Palestinian civilians into a small area of southern Gaza. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee unveiled the plan on Friday, although there's no clear timeline, and Gaza remains...
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed starting direct peace talks with Ukraine without preconditions in Turkey this Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially responded by saying there must be a ceasefire before talks could be held. He...
Updated on May 11, 2025, at 7:05 pm EST Hamas said on Sunday that it would release Edan Alexander, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 attack, and confirmed that it had been in direct talks with the US on a potential Gaza...
Sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority became a huge matter in early March, when massacres left well over 1,300 people dead and the ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) insisting the matter was over and an investigation would happen. The probe has been...
Iran said on Sunday that the fourth round of negotiations it held with the US earlier in the day were "difficult but useful," and both sides have agreed to hold more talks. "The fourth round of indirect Iran-US negotiations is concluded; difficult but useful talks to...
Pope Leo XIV called for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade of aid on Sunday in his first Sunday blessing since being elected pontiff last week. "I am deeply pained by what is happening [in Gaza," Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica....
