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Rwandan-backed rebels marched into the centre of east Congo’s largest city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of decades of conflict in a region already suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The rebel alliance, spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia, said it had captured the whole of the lakeside city,…

Swedish prosecutors have requested the pre-trial detention of Osama Krayem for his alleged involvement in the 2014 murder of a Jordanian pilot in Syria. The 32-year-old Krayem is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence in France. In 2023, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Brussels for his role in the 22 March 2016 attacks.…

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested under the Terrorism Act outside a mosque. On Thursday at around 9am, police apprehended the youth outside the Inverclyde Islamic Centre, Greenock. It is understood police are investigating links to right-wing extremism. He remains in custody and Police Scotland says there is no risk to the community. Read more:…

More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said. Among the victims are community leader Carmelo Guerrero and seven people who sought to sign a peace deal, according to a report that a…

Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials and residents told Reuters. The blackouts began on Monday after drone attacks on Merowe Dam, the country’s largest, affected Sudan’s northern state, while a technical issue affected River Nile and…

Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead in an apparent assassination in the country’s supreme court. Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after a gunman entered the court, in the capital Tehran, on Saturday morning. The attacker killed himself while fleeing the scene, according to the judiciary’s news website, Mizan. A bodyguard was…

Russia launched a new widespread attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, forcing the country to implement emergency power outages, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday. “The enemy continues its terror. Once again, the energy sector across Ukraine is under massive attack,” Ukrainian energy minister German Halushchenko said on his official Facebook page. The extent of the…

The Defense Department’s mission to defeat ISIS remains ongoing in Syria, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said today. She said the U.S. Central Command will continue to work to prevent the militant group from reestablishing a foothold in the country following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime over the weekend. “Centcom, together…