The second year of the Russia-Ukraine War did not pan out how either side expected, with upset and disappointment marring a conflict that looks ready to drag into a third year.The situation remains in flux some 22 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to commence a “special…

The United States on Tuesday imposed a new round of sanctions against 10 entities and four individuals for their involvement in procuring materials for the production of drones in Iran. The sanctions target a network spanning Iran, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Indonesia led by Hossein Hatefi Ardakani, according to the U.S.…

The head of a Gaza hospital has admitted to Israeli forces that the terror organization used his hospital to advance its military operations since the hospital is a “safe place.”Ahmad Kahlot, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, admitted in a bombshell interrogation with Israeli forces that Hamas…

Transportation costs in Conakry, Guinea’s capital, skyrocketed Tuesday, a day after an explosion ravaged the city’s main fuel depot.The blast left over a dozen people dead, and nearly 200 others injured.The emerging crisis in Guinea, which has an import-based fuel economy, has stoked fears of panic buying of imported petroleum.Residents…

Cyprus, in a joint operation with Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, has reportedly thwarted an Iranian plot to target and kill Israeli businessmen.Two Iranian asylum-seekers, reportedly in contact with Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard, were arrested last month.The men were detained just before a hit squad was believed to arrive in Cyprus to…

More than 2,000 workers remained underground for a second day Tuesday in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum mine in South Africa.The mine is owned by Implats, which is one of the world’s biggest platinum miners. The firm has suspended work at the Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine…

A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family’s demands to marry a cousin in their homeland.Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where her…

Houthi militants in Yemen say they will not stop attacking vessels in the Red Sea despite the formation of a U.S.-led task force to protect commercial shipping in the region. “Our war is a moral war, and therefore, no matter how many alliances America mobilizes, our military operations will not stop,”…

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have increasingly become a threat to commercial global shipping and the region in which they operate as they continue to launch attacks in the Red Sea. The Houthis have escalated their attacks against vessels in or near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and have stated their support of…

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is pushing back against reports concerning two Christian women who were killed during fighting within the area of Gaza’s only Catholic Church over the weekend.  The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem claimed in a Saturday press release that an IDF sniper had murdered two Christian women…