WARS
Saturday, 20 January 2024 05:02
Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead - UN report
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday. In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll in El Geneina to intelligence sources and contrasted it with the U.N. estimate that about 12,000 people have been killed across Sudan since war erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese army and the RSF. The monitors also described as "credible" accusations…
Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:54
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 106
Biden and Netanyahu have finally talked, but their visions still clash for ending Israel-Hamas war President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends. Biden and his top aides have all but smothered Netanyahu with robust support, even in the face of global condemnation over the mounting civilian death toll and humanitarian suffering in Gaza as the Israelis have carried out military operations in the aftermath of…
Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:53
What to know after Day 695 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Kiev has lost nearly 500 pieces of Western war machinery – Moscow Kiev lost over 500 pieces of military and special equipment while trying to break through Russian fortifications during the course of its largely unsuccessful counteroffensive launched last summer, according to the chief of Russia’s Engineering Troops, Lt. Gen. Yury Stavitsky. Russian defensive fortifications have proven to be highly effective against Ukraine’s hardware, including Western-supplied equipment, he claimed in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper published on Friday. Among those losses were over 180 pieces of Western-supplied materiel, including German-designed Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley infantry…
Friday, 19 January 2024 04:48
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 105
Netanyahu says he has told US he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House. The tense back and forth reflected what has become a wide rift between the two allies over the scope of Israel’s war and its plans for the future of the beleaguered territory. “We obviously see it differently,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said. Netanyahu…
Friday, 19 January 2024 04:47
What to know after Day 694 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine buys six French Caesar howitzers, France to supply missiles Ukraine has bought six Caesar howitzers, France's defence minister said on Thursday, adding that Paris would send 50 precision-guided missiles a month to Kyiv to aid its fight against Russia's invasion. Speaking to France Inter radio, Sebastien Lecornu said Caesar manufacturer Nexter had managed to halve the production time of the howitzer to 15 months meaning that some 78 units would be available this year. In Ukraine's first purchase of French-made weapons since the start of the war, Lecornu said Kyiv had bought six for between 3 million…
Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:30
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 104
Medicine for hostages and Palestinians arrives in Gaza under first Israel-Hamas deal since November A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas arrived in Gaza on Wednesday, part of a France- and Qatar- mediated deal that marked the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a weeklong cease-fire in November. The deal could bring respite to some of the roughly 100 hostages who remain in captivity, as well as to Palestinians in Gaza in desperate need of aid. But fighting still rages in many parts of the beleaguered enclave, and an end to the war…
Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:30
What to know after Day 693 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces hit over 40 Ukrainian artillery units in Krasny Liman area Russia’s Battlegroup Center has hit more than 40 Ukrainian artillery units in the Krasny Liman area, the battlegroup’s spokesman Alexander Savchuk told TASS. "In the course of counterbattery activities, more than 40 enemy artillery units were spotted and hit. Air defense systems destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle of the Ukrainian army. Ukraine’s losses amounted up to 210 troops, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, and a D-30 howitzer," he said. ** Russian forces hit Ukrainian stronghold with over 20 soldiers in southern Donetsk area…
Wednesday, 17 January 2024 04:31
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 103
Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza while deal emerges to deliver medicine to hostages Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more than 100 days into Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave. The fighting in the north, which was the first target of Israel’s offensive and where entire neighborhoods have been pulverized, showed how far Israel remains from achieving its goals of dismantling Hamas and returning scores of hostages captured in the Oct. 7 attack that…
Wednesday, 17 January 2024 04:30
What to know after Day 692 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine conflict began in 2008 – Putin The West provoked the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine by luring Kiev with the prospect of NATO membership. This move drastically changed the security situation on the continent, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. The current standoff began not in 2022 but in 2008, he added, speaking to local community leaders from across Russia. Putin then cited a former Czech president, who, according to Putin, has “recently” admitted that the “war” between Kiev and Moscow started in summer 2008 when the US-led bloc decided to “open its doors to Ukraine…
Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:43
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 102
Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel shows the militant group has amassed a diverse patchwork arsenal of weapons from around the world – much of it smuggled past a 17-year blockade that was aimed at stopping just such a military…
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Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:42
What to know after Day 691 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine ground commander says his troops, now on 'active defence', can still surprise His demeanour is dispassionate and his message is clear: Ukraine's ground forces are focused first and foremost on defence along the eastern stretch of the 1,000-km (600-mile) front under his command. They should not be counted out, however, as an offensive force. In an interview late last week, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi - a key figure in Kyiv's response to Russia's full-scale invasion - underlined the shifting realities on the battlefield that have tempered hopes of a major Ukrainian breakthrough. Despite initial optimism for a much-vaunted…
Monday, 15 January 2024 04:45
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 101
White House says 'it's the right time' for Israel to scale back Gaza war as fighting hits 100 days The White House said Sunday that “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group. The comments exposed the growing differences between the close allies on the 100th day of the war. Also Sunday, Israeli warplanes struck targets in Lebanon following a Hezbollah missile attack that killed two Israeli civilians — an older woman and her…
Monday, 15 January 2024 04:45
What to know after Day 690 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Reparation bonds could unlock $300 billion for Ukraine Ukraine needs cash to keep defending itself against Russian aggression. The United States and European Union are struggling to keep writing cheques to the country. They’re also reluctant to hand over $300 billion of Russian central bank reserves, which Western governments froze at the start of the war. Here is a proposal for a fallback plan. Kyiv could raise money by selling bonds backed by future claims for war damages against Moscow. It would be better if Ukraine’s backers just gave it more cash, as the United Kingdom did last…
Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:46
Here are the major events during 100 days of war between Israel and Hamas
Israel and Hamas have been at war in Gaza for 100 days since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group ran amok in southern Israel, prompting a fierce Israeli military campaign in which almost 24,000 Palestinians have been killed. Following is a timeline of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. Oct. 7, 2023: Hamas gunmen storm into southern Israel from Gaza and rampage through communities, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is at war and retaliatory airstrikes on densely…