Category: 3. Middle East

Here are the key events on day 1,256 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 3:

Fighting

• Kyiv’s military administration warned residents of the Ukrainian capital to take shelter on Saturday night due to the…

Defence Ministry accuses Kurdish-led SDF of injuring four army personnel and three civilians in rocket attack near Manbij.

Syria’s Ministry of Defence has accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of carrying out a rocket attack on…

Blazes across several Canadian provinces and territories pose health risks to Canadians and their southern neighbours.

Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada has triggered air quality alerts over the border in the United States.

Several blazes…

Without evidence, Trump and his allies accuse former US special prosecutor of illegal political activity.

Officials in the United States have launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special prosecutor who led two cases against Donald…

Yashasvi Jaiswal makes sparkling hundred with Mohammed Siraj striking with last ball of day as India look to tie series.

Yashasvi Jaiswal loves playing against England’s cricketers.

India’s 23-year-old opening batter struck his fourth test…

Anticorruption agencies arrest four suspects after government forced to backtrack on push to strip them of autonomy.

Ukrainian authorities have detained several officials over a “large-scale corruption scheme” in the defence sector, just days…

Around the world, countries are scrambling to cope with the latest wave of tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.

More than 60 countries are on the list, some with…

Palestinian group says right to resist Israeli occupation ‘cannot be relinquished until full national rights restored’.

Hamas has rejected reports that it expressed a willingness to disarm during Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Israel,…

A Palestinian teenager with no previous health conditions has starved to death in Gaza after being hospitalised, medical officials and relatives say, as people in the besieged enclave desperately struggle to find food amid Israel’s continued…

In an interview with Anadolu, Dr. Cooper, who has been working in Gaza for just three days, said the situation is beyond imagination, with children as young as five collapsing from starvation.

“I’ve seen children…