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Syria monitor says US strikes killed at least five IS members
AFP, Published on 21/12/2025
» DAMASCUS - A Syria monitor said Saturday that five Islamic State jihadist group members had been killed in US strikes overnight as Jordan confirmed it participated in the raids, after a deadly attack on American troops last weekend.
US strikes over 70 IS targets in Syria after attack on troops
AFP, Published on 20/12/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States forces struck more than 70 Islamic State group targets in Syria on Friday in what President Donald Trump described as "very serious retaliation" for an attack that killed three Americans last weekend.
Israel insists it calls shots in Gaza despite truce
AFP, Published on 27/10/2025
» JERUSALEM - Israel insisted on Sunday that it will maintain control of security inside Gaza despite signing up to a US-brokered ceasefire that foresees the deployment of an international security force.
US immigration agency on a shopping spree
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» NEW YORK - The agency overseeing Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown is spending tens of millions of dollars on guns, ammunition, body armor and surveillance technology, according to procurement records reviewed by AFP.
'Backyard fireworks' of WWII bombs still litter Solomon Islands
AFP, Published on 10/10/2025
» HONIARA — Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip was ploughing his soil by hand when he heard an unusual clunk -- one of the countless unexploded bombs still scattered across the small Pacific nation decades after World War II.
Sea life thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs, sub discovers
AFP, Published on 26/09/2025
» PARIS - Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT.
Zelensky to meet Trump next week in US
AFP, Published on 20/09/2025
» KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would meet US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week as Russia intensified attacks across his country.
$346m US-Nigeria arms deal sets rights groups on edge
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» ABUJA - Rights groups are questioning a multimillion-dollar arms sale by the United States to Nigeria as security forces in the west African nation continue to be accused of killing civilians with impunity.
Gaza mediators 'working very hard' to revive truce plan: Egypt
AFP, Published on 12/08/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Egypt said Tuesday it was working with fellow Gaza mediators Qatar and the United States to broker a 60-day truce, as part of a renewed push to end the Israel-Hamas war.
New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» PHNOM PROEK (CAMBODIA) - A biologist might go a lifetime without discovering a new species. It took a team exploring Cambodia's limestone karst a single night to find three.