Clashes, artillery fire and air strikes have surged in Sudan’s capital, witnesses say, as a war between rival military factions that has displaced 2.5 million people and caused a humanitarian crisis entered its 11th week. Witnesses also reported a sharp increase in violence in recent days in Nyala, the largest city in the western Darfur … [Read more…]
The Wagner mercenary group’s march on Moscow has revived an old fear in Washington: what happens to Russia’s nuclear stockpile in the event of domestic upheaval. An agreement on Saturday by Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to order his fighters back to their camps quelled immediate worries of major conflict inside Russia. But the episode signalled … [Read more…]
The millionaire mercenary chief who long benefited from the powerful patronage of President Vladimir Putin has moved into the global spotlight with a dramatic rebellion against Russia’s military that challenged the authority of Putin himself. Yevgeny Prigozhin is the 62-year-old owner of the Kremlin-allied Wagner Group, a private army of inmate recruits and other mercenaries … [Read more…]
Russia says it will prosecute mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin for armed mutiny after he accused military leaders of killing 2000 of his fighters, raising the stakes in a growing confrontation with top officials. As a long-running stand-off between him and the Defence Ministry appeared to come to a head late on Friday, the ministry issued … [Read more…]
Hundreds of men from Druze Arab villages on the occupied Golan Heights have protested against Israeli plans to set up a wind farm, some facing off with riot police in an unusually violent confrontation that injured several people. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in a 1967 war and later annexed it, a move … [Read more…]
The Ugandan military have rescued three of the six students who were kidnapped by Islamist fighters when they stormed a school in the west of the country last week and massacred 42 people, mostly young students, the army says. “There were six students kidnapped and three have so far been rescued,” said military spokesman Felix … [Read more…]
Russia has struck military and infrastructure targets in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and across other parts of the country, including western areas far from the front lines, Ukrainian officials say. Ukraine’s commander of land forces and its deputy defence minister, meanwhile, reported successes with a counteroffensive in the east and south. Russia’s defence ministry said that … [Read more…]
Israeli commandos backed by a military helicopter killed three Palestinians, including a teenager, and wounded at least 29 others during a fierce clash in the occupied West Bank, local gunmen and medical officials said. Israel’s military said it had launched the raid on Jenin to detain Palestinians suspected of attacks and that troops had exchanged … [Read more…]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stressed the importance of keeping open lines of communication to reduce the risk of miscalculation in talks with the Chinese foreign minister, and the two have agreed to meet again in Washington. As the first US secretary of state to visit China in five years, Blinken held “candid, … [Read more…]
An air strike in Sudan’s capital Khartoum has killed at least 17 people, including five children, health officials say as fighting continues between rival generals seeking to control the country and another ceasefire was agreed. The attack was one of the deadliest of the clashes in urban areas of Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan between … [Read more…]