Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been indicted in New York on several charges related to drug trafficking and weapons possession, US Attorney General Pam Bondi has stated.
US soldiers have captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife during Washington’s strikes on the nation’s capital, US President Donald Trump has claimed, adding that the two have been flown out of the South American country.
Russia finished 2025 with what Ukraine described as an information operation designed to avoid engaging in peace negotiations and continue its war, despite suffering staggering casualties for meagre territorial gains this year.
Iran has formally warned the United Nations about a “consistent pattern of unlawful conduct” by the United States, following threatening remarks by American President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic has denounced as intervention in its internal affairs and an explicit threat of force.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on dozens of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Several countries in the Middle East and Asia have called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded Palestinian enclave.
The US has refused to issue a visa to Iranian national table tennis player Amirhossein Hedayati, preventing him from continuing his professional career in the US league.
Russia announced on Thursday it had extracted and decoded a file from a Ukrainian drone downed earlier this week that it said shows it had been targeting a Russian presidential residence and that it would hand over the relevant information to the United States.
Syria claimed Thursday a suicide bomber who killed a security forces member in Aleppo on New Year's Eve was in the Islamic State group (ISIS, ISIL or Daesh), which planned attacks on churches and gatherings.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that 2025 marked the worst humanitarian and demographic year for Palestinians, driven by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip and escalating violations in the occupied West Bank.
Saudi authorities have executed 356 people in 2025, according to an AFP tally, setting a new record for the number of inmates put to death in the Persian Gulf kingdom in a single year.
China accused Taiwan's president on Thursday of telling "lies" in a speech he gave vowing to defend the island's sovereignty after large-scale military exercices by Beijing, state media reported.
Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, with the Middle East as a whole the most dangerous region for media professionals, according to a report by a global journalist union.
A CIA assessment concluded that Ukraine did not try to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin at his country residence as alleged by the Kremlin, a source with knowledge of the matter has told NBC News.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has vowed to defend the democratic island's sovereignty in a New Year's speech, after China carried out military drills.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated his country was "10 percent" away from a peace deal with Russia, but cautioned that the most important issues were still unsolved and that any agreement should not reward Moscow.
Hamas has condemned Israel's decision to ban several aid groups from operating in the Gaza Strip, urging the international community to prevent what it described as a move targeting Palestinians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his New Year’s Eve address on Wednesday that Russia believes it will prevail in Ukraine, where Moscow has been conducting a military offensive for nearly four years.
The European Union warned Wednesday that Israel's threat to suspend several aid groups in the Gaza Strip from January would block "life-saving" assistance from reaching the population.
China announced on Wednesday that it had successfully completed military drills around Taiwan, including live-fire exercises simulating a blockade of key ports and attacks on maritime targets.
Russian Defense Ministry has released a map showing the route of the Ukrainian long-range drones that targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in Novgorod Region days ago.
The United Nations has warned that Israel’s recent actions against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees risk depriving millions of people of basic services, including education and healthcare.
