Author: Disha Mishra

U.S. forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the militant group, killing many of them, President Donald Trump said. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.” Saturday’s strikes were carried out in the Golis Mountains and an initial assessment indicated many militants were killed, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said. No civilians were harmed,…

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden Bibas were handed over to Red Cross officials in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis before being transferred to Israel. Israeli-American Keith Siegel was separately handed over at the Gaza City seaport. Hours later, 183 Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in the exchange. Among them, 150 arrived in Gaza while 32 got off…

(Forelines) – On Saturday at least 54 people were died and 158 injured in a attack by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in the city of Omdurman, according to the statement by health ministry. In a statement the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) refused targeting the market and instead alleged the Sudanese army of carrying out strikes targeting civilians. The army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) both have struck densely packed areas in a battle that burst out in April 2023 over the integration of two forces. The dispute has killed ten thousands people, moved millions from…

The United States wants Ukraine to hold elections, potentially by the end of the year, especially if Kyiv can agree a truce with Russia in the coming months, President Donald Trump’s top Ukraine official told Reuters. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said in an interview that Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections, suspended during the war with Russia, “need to be done”. “Most democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so,” Kellogg said. “I think it is good for democracy. That’s the beauty of a solid democracy, you…

According to state media Syrian officials have detained a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad seen by some as responsible for sparking the country’s 2011 uprising due to a crackdown on protests in the southern city of Daraa. Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security Department in Daraa, was arrested by General Security forces in the country’s western Latakia province, state media SANA said. Syria’s new ruling authority has carried out security crackdowns in several regions that it says aim to detain remnants of the former government, arresting dozens of…

Ruling military of Myanmar has expanded a state’s emergency for next six months, reported by state media on Friday, a day prior of the forth-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the nation into chaos following a decade of tentative democracy. Myanmar has been blocked in a civil war started by the military’s overthrow of the elected civilian government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta schedule current year to hold an election, which critics have derided as a sham to keep the generals in power through proxies. “There are still more tasks to be done…

(Reuters) – Crews worked to pull the remains of the U.S.’ deadliest air disaster in two decades from Washington’s Potomac River on Friday, searching for the cause of an incident that has raised questions about air safety and a shortage of tower controllers. Fresh from recovering the so-called black boxes from the American Airlines plane that crashed after colliding with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening, killing 67, divers aim to salvage the aircraft and find additional components on Friday, Washington’s fire department said. Authorities have not pinpointed a reason for the collision, which happened as the regional…

(Reuters) – Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, will face probing queries from U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Thursday about his credentials and history of making false allegations about the agency he’s been tapped to lead. Members of the panel’s Democratic minority, directed by Senator Dick Durbin, are expected to grill the 44-year-old nominee about his claim that the FBI is filled with members of a “deep state” trying to block Trump’s policies and his call to shutter the bureau’s Washington headquarters. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, published ahead of his confirmation hearing,…

(Reuters) – More than 60 people were feared dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport. “At this point we do not believe there were any survivors,” District of Columbia fire chief John Donnelly said at a Thursday press conference. Donnelly said 28 bodies had been recovered from the river so far, in what was shaping up to be the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than a decade. “We will work to find all the bodies and…

(Reuters) – Ukraine stated on Wednesday it had struck a big Russian oil refinery in an overnight drone attack, and a Russian official stated an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on a nuclear power plant had been thwarted. The Ukrainian military stated the strike on the refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region had caused a large fire. Reuters was able to verify a video posted on social media that showed orange flames lighting up the night sky in the city of Kstovo, but could not confirm it was the refinery that was burning. Lukoil’s NORSI refinery, Russia’s fourth largest, is based…