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Updated to add more details on the attacks, eyewitness accounts and context. Damage from a drone strike on an apartment block in the town of Moskovsky, southwestern Moscow.Vitaly Smolnikov / TASS Moscow was targeted by a swarm of drones early Tuesday morning, marking the first time that unmanned aerial vehicles have struck residential areas of […]

President Yoweri Museveni has blamed the humiliating attack by al-Shabaab militants on a Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) base in Somalia on the field commanders A UPDF base in Lower Shebeele region was overrun by al-Shabaab on Friday at about 0530hrs. The militants released a statement, saying they killed at least 137 soldiers and captured […]

Just hours after a massive drone and missile attack against the capital, Russia launches another barrage of rockets. Emergency services extinguish a burning object in the Obolon district of Kyiv on Monday morning. PHOTO: Kyiv City Military Administration A series of explosions rocked Kyiv once again on Monday morning, just hours after a massive overnight missile and […]

The conflict has inflicted widespread destruction on residential areas in Khartoum and its adjacent cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North. The conflict has turned the capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas into battlefields [Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters] Sudan’s warring sides have agreed to extend a shaky ceasefire in their battle for control of the country, after […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cemented his place in Turkish politics as the longest-serving leader with a runoff victory on Sunday against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses a crowd outside the Presidential Complex, in the capital Ankara, Türkiye, May 29, 2023. As millions held their breath in the first runoff he faced, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan left […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is leading in his ancestral hometown Rize with 76.06% support in Türkiye’s historic presidential runoff, preliminary results so far show. President and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gestures at the polling station on the day of the presidential runoff vote in Istanbul, Türkiye, May 28, 2023. (AFP Photo) With over 92.84% […]

Türkiye is at a critical juncture, with a great deal of speculation surrounding the future of its economy following the presidential runoff this Sunday. People walk in front of an election campaign poster of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Istanbul, Türkiye, May 22, 2023. (EPA Photo) The overarching question on everyone’s minds looms large: Will […]

A senior Ugandan military commander is among the dead from coordinated explosions at Friday dawn at Buulo Mareer, a base in Lower Shabelle, Somalia, which left Uganda’s army top brass in horror. Soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defence Force. PHOTO | GAEL GRILHOT | AFP Al Shabaab, the militant group that has long been mocked […]