As the bloody conflict between Hamas and Israel entered its second week, concerns are mounting over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza. “Over last night, the Israeli army struck over 300 military sites and headquarters of institutions belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” the Israeli army said in a press statement. Since the beginning of […]
From Our Correspondent The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has charged troops of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army to go after economic saboteurs and ensure they are completely stamped out. Lagbaja gave the charge while addressing troops during his maiden working tour to the Division Area of Responsibility (AoR) in […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the relocation of Gaza residents from the north to the south as ordered by the Israeli military is extremely dangerous. After days of airstrikes, Israeli military ordered the Palestinians in Gaza City to move south of the territory, said Guterres. “Moving more than one million people, across a […]
French soldiers have started withdrawing from their bases in Niger, with Niger’s military escorting the first convoy of troops out of the country. The troops travelled in the “direction of Chad”, authorities in Niamey said. Pick-up trucks and armoured personnel carriers laden with French soldiers drove through the dusty outskirts of Niamey, on Tuesday. This marked Niger’s […]
Hamas has threatened to kill one hostage for every Israeli airstrike “targeting innocent civilians,” a spokesperson for the Palestinian side said on Monday. This is coming two days into the devastating war on Israel. At least nine Americans have died and others remain missing after the attack, a National Security Council spokesman told CNN. Israel […]
Turkish Police detained 148 suspected drug traffickers in anti-narcotics operations across 21 provinces, the country’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Monday. The simultaneous raids took place in provinces including Istanbul, Bursa, Sivas, Bolu, Kahramanmaras, Osmaniye, Igdir, Usak and Mugla, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Drugs seized include 300kg […]
More than 800 Israelis and 500 Palestinians have died amid heavy fighting and bombardment following the largest attack by the Palestinian Hamas group against Israel in decades. Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on Monday authorities would impose a total blockade on the Gaza Strip. Gallant added that government would cut electricity and block food […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday, discussed the military escalation between the Palestinians and the Israelis in the Gaza Strip. During a phone conversation, the two presidents highlighted the danger of the absence of a political prospect. They also discussed the exacerbation of the current conditions, which threaten civilians’ […]
An Israeli lawmaker, Ofer Cassif, says his party warned about events like Saturday’s Hamas attack on Israel if the government continued its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Hamas launched a multipronged assault at dawn with thousands of rockets fired at Israel and the Gaza-based group’s fighters infiltrating Israeli towns and illegal settlements, on Saturday. The attack […]
Death toll from Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit Western Afghanistan climbed to at least 2053, officials of the ruling Taliban said on Sunday. Al Jazeera reported that men were digging through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in desperate attempts to pull victims from the wreckage left by powerful earthquakes. Ruling Taliban officials […]