Syrian govt loses control of Darra
Local factions have taken control of more areas in Daraa province, including Daraa city and they now control more than 90 per cent of the province, as Syrian government forces successively pulled out...
Local factions have taken control of more areas in Daraa province, including Daraa city and they now control more than 90 per cent of the province, as Syrian government forces successively pulled out...
THE International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on November 21 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the ongoing Gaza conflict. This unprecedented move by the Hague-based court has sent...
US top diplomat Antony Blinken warned Wednesday that the deployment of North Korean troops alongside Russian forces fighting on the Ukrainian border demanded a ‘firm response’...
THE war and conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, and others —Bangladesh’s own political situation for the last couple of months, as it appears — turned the Rohingya refugee crisis a ‘less important’ concern. But the situation of the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar is dire. On the one hand, the number of Rohingya has been increasing...
Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossin on Wednesday expressed optimism for enhanced solidarity among Arab nations and the broader international community in their collective efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict...
Ministers from Muslim and European countries along with the European Union’s foreign affairs chief gathered Friday in Madrid to discuss how to advance a two-state solution to the...
Around 8,000 Rohingyas had recently crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing armed conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Tuesday...
Russia said Tuesday it was holding off Ukrainian troops, tanks and armoured vehicles trying to break across the border into its Kursk region, the latest in several such attempted incursions throughout the conflict...
Indian soldiers and top brass gathered Friday in the remote Himalayan foothills to commemorate a battle fondly remembered among compatriots for imposing a...
Global conflicts killed three times as many children and twice as many women in 2023 than in the previous year, as overall civilian fatalities swelled 72 per cent...
Violence against children in armed conflicts reached ‘extreme levels’ in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday...
More armed conflicts took place worldwide in 2023 than any other year since the end of the Second World War, according to a Norwegian study published on Monday...
Conflict in Sudan and Gaza pushed the number of internally displaced people worldwide to a record 75.9 million at the end of 2023, an NGO monitor said Tuesday...
ISRAEL was founded with a UN mandate in 1948. The background was the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis. The idea that Jews needed a state of their own to feel safe was widely accepted...
THE fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement...
US secretary of state Antony Blinken reiterated US opposition to an Israeli assault on the crowded Gaza city of Rafah in talks on Wednesday with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
THE United Kingdom has a historical link to the current Israel-Palestine conflict. With the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain pledged to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, despite Jews constituting...
Nine more members of Myanmar Border Guard Police fled conflict and entered Bangladesh through Jhimongkhali and Kharankkhali border of Whykong at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday morning amid their ongoing conflict with the ethnic rebel group Arakan Army...
Iran warned on Sunday against any ‘reckless’ Israeli retaliation to Tehran’s unprecedented attack, as world leaders urged restraint. Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory…
Iran warned the United States on Sunday to ‘stay away’ from its conflict with Israel after Tehran launched a drone and missile attack in retaliation for a deadly strike on its Damascus consulate.....
Myanmar junta troops have withdrawn from their positions in a major trade hub near the Thai border following days of clashes. AFP reporters in Thailand heard shelling on the border near the vital trading town of Myawaddy early Thursday after witnessing hundreds of people queuing the night before to seek safety in Thailand...
Myanmar’s military and an ethnic minority armed group clashed for the second day around a trade hub on the Thai border Wednesday, with residents hiding or fleeing and Thailand beefing up security on the border...
The government has decided to keep the movement of all ships on the St Martin’s Island routes closed after Eid-ul-Fitr due to the ongoing conflict inside Myanmar....