Turkish strikes Wednesday targeted Kurdish forces controlling northern Syria's Al-Hol detention camp, home to over 50,000 people including relatives of suspected jihadists, Kurdish forces and a war monitor said.
Olympic chiefs on Friday gave the green light to the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at next year's Paris Games as neutrals, outside of team events and as long as they did not actively support the war on Ukraine....
In this award-winning documentary, we follow the journey of Sarah to find out the painful truth about her family history. When she became a mother, the young Frenchwoman decided to break the silence that surrounded her family's past. Her grandfather was a Harki who fought alongside the French army...
Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win....
The United Nations Security Council gathered Friday to discuss the war in Gaza, after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a special measure to urge the organisationâs most powerful body to call for a ceasefire. Throughout the day, Israel pressed its offensive in and around the Gaza Strip's ma...
The UK government and the United States on Thursday accused Russian security services of engaging in a sustained cyber-espionage campaign against top politicians, journalists and NGOs....
Arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan said Thursday they would exchange prisoners of war and work towards normalising their relations, in a joint statement hailed by the EU as a "breakthrough"....
In an interview with FRANCE 24, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (2014-2019) reacted to the US Senate withholding a major package of financial and military aid for Kyiv. Poroshenko warned that the coming days are among "the most important in Ukrainian history" and undoubtedly for the wor...
French President Emmanuel Macron meets Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday in a bid to break the deadlock ahead of an EU summit after the Hungarian leader threatened to block further backing for Ukraine....
As Senate Republicans blocked the advance of tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance for Ukraine Wednesday, President Joe Biden berated their tactics as âstunning" and dangerous. Yet he also signaled an openness to what GOP lawmakers ultimately want: border policy changes....
Heavy urban combat raged throughout Gaza on Thursday with some of the warâs most intensive fighting so far reported in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north and Khan Younis in the south. Aid groups warned that Gazans are running out of places to flee as Israeli strikes were also reported in the...
The White House expressed concern Wednesday at mounting tensions between Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed, oil-rich border region, saying it wants them to avoid any "violence" or "conflict."...
Moscow police carried out raids on nightclubs hosting LGBTQ events on December 1, just two days after Russiaâs Supreme Court banned the âinternational LGBTQ movementâ and classified it as an extremist movement. The police forced people in attendance to strip to their underclothes and took pho...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday had hastily arranged talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on oil, Gaza and Ukraine, hours after visiting Saudi Arabia's Gulf neighbour, the United Arab Emirates....
A former Ukrainian lawmaker regarded by Kyiv as a traitor was shot dead near Moscow on Wednesday and a Ukrainian source said he was killed by the country's security service....
A man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower was charged on Wednesday with carrying out a terror attack, his lawyer told AFP. The deadly assault late on Saturday came with France at its highest alert level against the background of the war between Israel and Palestini...
Several Republican senators walked out of a classified briefing on Ukraine Tuesday as it descended into a row over the border crisis, after President Volodymyr Zelensky unexpectedly canceled a videolink appearance to appeal for continued US funding. ...
The head of the UN warned on Wednesday that he expects "public order to completely break down soon due to the desperate conditions" in Gaza, where Israeli forces have expanded their offensive to the southern city of Khan Younis. The fierce fighting has forced civilians to flee to shrinking âsafe...
Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than a year before the US elections....
Hamas has used âincreasingly sophisticatedâ tactics against Israeli forces since the ceasefire in the Gaza strip ended on December 1, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US think tank. As the conflict is increasingly focused in southern Gaza, the Palestinian Islamist grou...
Countries at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai are considering calling for a formal phaseout of fossil fuels as part of the UN summit's final deal to tackle global warming, a draft negotiating text seen on Tuesday shows. The Arab Coordination Group (ACG) said on the sidelines of the summit that...
French filmmaker Mehdi Fikri has accused far-right cyberactivists and TV pundits of scuppering the launch of his police violence drama âAfter the Fireâ, reviving talk of the influence of online rating platforms and politicised commentators in shaping moviesâ fortunes....
The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has urged UN member states to intervene in the crisis in Gaza, accusing the international community of being "paralysed" in its reaction to the tragedy. Speaking to FRANCE 24, Francesca Albanese said she stands by her earlier comment...
Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in southern Gaza on Tuesday, prompting a UN warning of an "even more hellish scenario" as fighting pushes civilians into a steadily shrinking area of the besieged territory. Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference on Tuesday there will be no neg...
The world may cross the crucial 1.5C global warming threshold in seven years as fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue to rise, scientists warned Tuesday, urging countries at the COP28 talks to "act now" on coal, oil and gas pollution....
Nigerâs junta on Monday scrapped two key military agreements that the West African nation signed with the European Union to help fight the violence in Africaâs Sahel region as the country's army leaders and a senior Russian defence official discussed military cooperation....
The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv's war effort to defend itself from Russia's invasion may grind to a halt without it....
Nigerâs junta on November 27 revoked a 2015 law aimed at curbing migration through a key route in the West African country. While the European Union warned that the decision could lead to an increase in migratory flows to Europe, the decriminalisation of Niger's migrant-smuggling trade could be...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial resumed on Monday, despite the country's continuing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip....
Money pledges were in the spotlight at COP28 in Dubai on Monday as delegates turned their focus to the yawning gap in how much climate finance is needed and what's on tap, particularly for developing countries that need funds each year just to adapt to the warming world....
The Gaza Strip is one of the worldâs most densely populated regions, making combat particularly difficult for military troops. As the Israeli ground offensive pushes into the refugee-packed southern districts of the besieged Palestinian enclave, FRANCE 24 reports on the Israeli army's Urban Warfa...
