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.
Powerful explosives were found near the Balkan Stream pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian gas to Hungary, the leaders of the two countries said on Sunday, triggering political scrutiny in Hungary days before a national election. ...
Kethevane Gorjestani is pleased to welcome Ian Lesser, Author and Senior Director for Foreign and Security Policy at the German Marshall Fund (GMF). According to Mr. Lesser, the current crisis in the Middle East has sparked a systemic shock to the global order. What we are witnessing is the conve...
The war in the Middle East showed no sign of ending as President Donald Trump exchanged threats with the Iranian regime and jittery markets sent oil prices surging. The week also saw NASA launch its first crewed lunar mission in half-a-century, Italy miss out on a third successive football World Cu...
Silence reigned on Easter Sunday in the alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City, with the holiday overshadowed by war and restrictions on access to the Holy Sepulchre, where Christians commemorate Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. ...
Hendro Munsterman, Vatican-correspondent for Nederlands Dagblad, has more....
Seema Gupta is live from Rome....
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a condemnation of “the violence of war that kills and destroys,’’ amid the US-Israeli war on Iran and Russia’s campaign in Ukraine. In his homily, the pontiff singled out those who wage war, abuse the weak and prioritise pro...
Israel's military renewed strikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after issuing evacuation warnings, following attacks on nearby buildings that damaged a hospital....
Although Germany insists it is not a party to the war in Iran, the U.S. airbase in Ramstein plays a key role in coordinating American military operations causing controversy. ...
Sri Lanka is struggling to prevent a repeat of its spectacular economic collapse four years ago, as the prolonged Middle East war compounds the fallout from a deadly cyclone in November....
On the night from Friday to Saturday, Russia once again targeted Ukraine with 286 long-range drones, 260 of which were intercepted according to Ukrainian forces....
Shahzaib Wahlah, correspondent in Islamabad Pakistan, has more....
State-run public transport in Pakistan's capital and most populous province will be free for the coming month, officials said Friday, after the government drastically raised fuel prices due to the Iran war...
France said Friday it was launching an emergency loan programme to help small and medium-sized businesses exposed to soaring fuel prices driven by the war in the Middle East....
Despite denials from Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region, there is growing evidence that their territory is being used in attacks on the Iranian regime during the US–Israel war. FRANCE 24 has verified and geolocated multiple videos showing that, on at least two occasions, on March 24 and 31...
A Russian drone hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing five people and injuring 30 others, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 286 drones overnight, of which 260 were intercepted....
A Russian drone hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 19, officials said, as Moscow pressed on with intensified daytime attacks....
European drivers face a record fuel inflation as diesel prices have spiralled by more than 30 percent since the start of the Iran war, highlighting the continent's dependence on imported energy and the lingering prominence of diesel on the car market....
Russian night-time strikes on Ukraine wounded 14 people while one person died and four were injured in air attacks in Russia, officials said Saturday....
One US service member has been rescued and at least one is missing after two US military planes went down in separate incidents including the first shoot-down since the war began nearly five weeks ago....
The French government is backing a draft law based on the idea that "hatred" of Israel is inseparable from hatred of the Jewish people. Critics of the “Yadan law” warn the new legislation will not just muzzle legitimate criticism of Israel but could further fuel anti-Semitism in France. ...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said Iran has 48 hours left to make deal or the US would unleash "Hell". His renewed threat in a social media post came as the US military conducted a frantic search for the missing crew member of an F-15E fighter jet shot down by Iran. Follow our liveblog for...
US and Iranian forces pressed ahead Saturday in a race to find the missing crew member of an American F-15 warplane shot down in Iran as an Iranian TV station called on people to turn the pilot in, promising a reward. The downing raised the stakes for the Trump administration as the war entered its...
Engaged in a costly war against Iran, the White House unveiled its proposed budget for 2027 on Friday, asking Congress to increase the United States’ already massive defence spending by more than 40 percent over the course of a year. This would be a record in the country's recent history if Cong...
Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Spencer P. Boyer, Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. As war rages in the Middle East, amid a highly volatile geopolitical landscape, Boyer centers on three interlocking dynamics: the dangers of escalation under conditions...
It’s been a week that began with President Trump addressing the nation for the first time since the Iran War began five weeks ago. Expectations that he might signal an end to the conflict—or announce a ground offensive or a split from NATO—were unmet. Instead, his 18-minute speech echoed his...
Ukraine has in recent days intensified drone attacks on ports and refineries in Russia’s Leningrad region on the Baltic Sea. Yet Kyiv’s strategy of trying to stop Moscow from reaping the benefits of oil disruption in the Middle East doesn’t come without significant risk....
A container ship belonging to French shipping group CMA CGM has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, MarineTraffic vessel tracking data shows, in a sign that Iran may not consider France a hostile nation. It is the first French-owned vessel to make it through the channel since US-Israel...
Filmmaker Ilker Catak explains how his political thriller – exploring authoritarianism and the artistic process – grew out of a desire to examine the complexities of marriage. "Yellow Letters", which won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, serves as a cautionary tale. Catak says the sto...
