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The speaker of Somalia’s lower house of Parliament has strongly condemned Monday’s “cowardly, merciless and unreligious” bombing of a military base that claimed the lives of 25 soldiers and injured more than 70 others. Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur, speaker of the lower house of Parliament, in Mogadishu, Somalia, April 28, 2022. Nur on July 25, […]

Russia is doubling down in its efforts to block Ukrainian grain exports and maximize damage to Kyiv’s profits one week after it pulled out of a landmark grain deal securing Ukrainian grain exports. A combine harvests wheat in the village of Chornobaivka in Ukraine’s Kherson region.Sergei Bobylev / TASS In addition to its systematic attacks […]

All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy vows to crackdown on corruption Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he would take a zero-tolerance approach to corruption, as the country struggles to fend off Russia’s grinding invasion. He denounced “the betrayal” of deputy Yuri Aristov, spotted at a five-star luxury hotel in the Maldives […]

Seoul detects multiple projectiles hours after USS Kentucky reportedly departs Busan port A nighttime cruise missile launch earlier this year | Image: Rodong Sinmun (Feb. 24, 2023) This is a developing story, please check back for further updates. (Last updated July 22 at 9:12 a.m. KST with JCS confirmation and additional context) North Korea fired […]

He says the media misquoted him adding that he did not say al Shabaab controls 60 percent of Mandera County. In Summary He said that the statement made by him at the conference focused on the presence and activities of the group in the region. Khalif said that the message given out by the media […]

Russian army veteran and ex-FSB officer Igor Girkin has been detained, his wife and the RBC business daily’s sources said Friday. Igor Strelkov (Girkin), former defense minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic.Sergei Fadeichev / TASS Girkin, who helped Moscow annex Crimea in 2014 and then organized pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine, was detained by law enforcement officers around […]

Ukraine’s grinding offensive is slowly gaining ground at the price of a continuous flow of dead and wounded. Soldiers say they will fight on but morale is suffering with no quick end in sight. ight. Ukrainian servicemen at a recaptured position near Klyshchiivka village, south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region on July 13, 2023. (Photo by […]

The Somali military in a joint operation with US forces killed nearly 100 al-Shabaab terrorists Wednesday in central Somalia, including seven top-ranking leaders, according to the country’s Information Ministry. HUDUR, Somalia The Somali National Army (SNA) with the support of the US Army conducted air and ground operations near the villages of Gal-Libah and El […]

m Iraq asked the Swedish ambassador in Baghdad to leave the country following a Quran-desecrating incident in Stockholm on Thursday. Iraqi riot police use water cannon to disperse protesters outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, July 20, 2023. (AFP Photo) Baghdad has also recalled its charge d’affaires in Sweden, a government statement said. The […]

Kyiv Post’s special correspondent in Odesa reports on three nights of terror from massive Russian missile attacks intended to paralyze the port and prevent grain shipments. Odesa. State Emergency Service. Odesa has suffered hundreds of Russian attacks since Feb. 24, 2022. But from Feb. 18 to 20 it was the target of an unprecedented, three straight […]