The United Nations ended its 10-year peacekeeping mission in Mali on Monday following the government’s request that alleged the force was inadequate to respond to growing violent extremism in the West African nation.”The Malian terrain was vast and difficult,” the commander of the 13,000-strong force, Maj. Gen. Mamadou Gaye, told…

Senior U.S. defense officials tell Fox News Digital there have been two new attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. At Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, a one-way attack drone was shot down near the base. No injuries or damage were reported. At Patrol Base Al-Shaddadi in Syria, there was a…

A guest at Paris’ luxury Ritz hotel was likely relieved to discover that her expensive diamond ring – worth an estimated $800,000 – was not stolen by a hotel staff after all. The owner, described as a Malaysian businesswoman, filed a police report Friday after discovering that the ring she left…

Burma’s military government confirmed Monday that Beijing-brokered talks with ethnic rebel forces are taking place.The rebels, aligned with the Three Brotherhood Alliance, have claimed significant amounts of territory in the conflict-ravaged Southeast Asian nation.Burma has been run by a highly-contested military dictatorship since the successful ouster of State Counselor Aung…

A Chinese coast guard ship blasted a Philippines navy-operated supply boat with a water cannon and harassed the vessel in the contested South China Sea for the second day in a row on Sunday, the head of the Philippine military said.Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said he was aboard the Unnaiza…

A man charged with terrorism and other offenses over a 2022 fire that badly damaged South Africa’s historic Parliament complex in Cape Town was declared unfit to stand trial by a court on Monday.Zandile Mafe was diagnosed with schizophrenia by an expert panel in a report, and a judge in…

Pressure mounted on Hungary on Monday not to veto the opening of European Union membership talks and the supply of economic aid to war-torn Ukraine at a pivotal EU summit this week, after Prime Minister Viktor Orban demanded that the issue be struck from the agenda.With tens of billions of…

Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, has disappeared from prison and his whereabouts are unknown, his allies said Monday.Navalny was supposed to appear in court via video link on Monday ahead of a transfer to a “special security” penal colony but never did, spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on X.Yarmysh…

Two girls aged 13 and 14 have been arrested in connection to the brutal beating of an Orthodox Jewish woman last week in north London.Police have said there is “significant concern” that the victim in the case, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, was targeted in the attack because of her appearance,…

Two people were killed and one wounded as a gunman fired shots at two locations in a southern Swiss town on Monday, police said.The man opened fire on several people in Sion shortly before 8 a.m. for reasons that aren’t yet clear, police in Valais canton (state) said in a…