Iraqi authorities have started excavating the site of a mass grave believed to contain thousands of victims of the Islamic State (IS) group near Mosul city, the project's director told AFP.
In a combative series of interviews on Sunday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, stated that “both sides are going to have to make concessions” for there to be a peaceful resolution to the war that erupted when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff has stated that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to “robust” security guarantees, including “effectively” offering Ukraine Article 5-like protection, during their historic Friday meeting.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has refuted US President Donald Trump’s call for a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, reiterating that a truce has to be implemented before discussing details of a possible settlement.
Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets across occupied territories demanding an end to the war in the Gaza Strip and a deal to free captives held there, as the military intensifies attacks on Gaza City to force tens of thousands of starving Palestinians to flee again.
US President Donald Trump is seeking a trilateral summit with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week, according to reports. The meeting could take place if Trump’s Oval Office talks with Zelensky on Monday are successful, according to the outlets.
US President Donald Trump backs a Russian proposal to take full control of two Ukrainian regions and freeze the front line in two others which Kremlin only partially controls, a source told AFP.
The U.S. State Department on Saturday said it was halting all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza while it conducts "a full and thorough" review, a move that has been condemned by pro-Palestine groups.
The Israeli military says it has targeted an energy infrastructure site that was used by the Houthis south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa early on Sunday.
Israel has announced preparations to forcibly evacuate Palestinians from “combat zones” to southern Gaza. It comes days after Tel Aviv announced a new offensive to seize control of Gaza City, the enclave’s largest urban centre.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has spelled out his demands for “land swaps” with Ukraine during his nearly three-hour summit with US President Donald Trump in Alaska, including his insistence Ukraine gives up the Donbas region, according to European officials familiar with the matter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed cautious optimism that the Alaska summit brings “us closer” to resolving the Ukraine war. The Russian leader also noted that Moscow and Washington are on the same page regarding the need to end the hostilities as soon as possible.
Multiple European leaders have been invited to US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Monday, a White House official has told CNN.
Russia's continued refusal to accept a ceasefire "complicates" efforts to achieve a sustainable peace agreement, President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump met to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Several European leaders on Saturday jointly pledged to continue support for Kyiv and maintain pressure on Russia until the war in Ukraine ends, after a summit in Alaska between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The foreign ministers of 31 Arab and Islamic states, along with the secretaries-general of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), have strongly condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statements on the so-called “Greater Israel,” warning that they threaten Arab national security and regional stability.
The Ukraine war should be ended through a permanent agreement rather than a mere ceasefire, US President Donald Trump has stated, following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
The United Nations human rights office has announced that at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid in the Gaza Strip since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he will head to Washington on Monday to discuss "ending the killing and the war" with US President Donald Trump.
Sudden floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 300 people across parts of Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal, authorities have confirmed, as scores of people remain missing.
China reaffirmed its commitment to the peaceful resolution of Iran's nuclear issue and reiterated its opposition to invoking the United Nations Security Council's "snapback" mechanism.
The U.N. human rights office has announced that an Israeli plan to build thousands of new homes between an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and near East Jerusalem was illegal under international law, and would put nearby Palestinians at risk of forced eviction, which it described as a war crime.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should “make the deal” to settle Kiev’s conflict with Moscow, US President Donald Trump has stated following three-hour talks in Anchorage with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, their first summit since the one in Helsinki in 2018.
Israel's army has a special intelligence unit dedicated to smearing and targeting Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, according to a new investigation by Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called his talks with US President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday “constructive” and “useful”. The discussions focused largely on the Ukraine conflict.
