Southern Spear U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave a name to the ongoing U.S. military campaign against drug cartels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific: it will henceforth be called Operation …

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Pakistan and India Emerging media reports clarified that it was a faction of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) called Jamaat-ul-Ahrar - not the main TTP - that claimed this week's Islamabad blas …

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Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) belatedly claimed yesterday's courthouse blast in Islamabad and said it was targeting "[j]udges, lawyers and officials who carried out rulings under Pakistan&rsq …

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Ukraine After 21 months of grueling battle, Russia appears to be on the verge of capturing the Donbas city of Pokrovsk - though Ukraine insists its forces are still resisting and are not cut off yet …

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Sudan UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres joined the chorus of concern for the fate of civilians in El Fasher following the city's fall to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week. Gu …

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Tanzania Tanzania's opposition claims that security forces have been summarily executing demonstrators who dared to protest against Pres. Samia Suluhu Hassan's botched re-election, and - in some cas …

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