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114 killed in week of attacks in Sudan's Darfur
AFP, Published on 04/01/2026
» PORT SUDAN, Sudan - Attacks by Sudan's army and its paramilitary foes on two towns in the western Darfur region over the past week have killed 114 people, medical sources told AFP on Sunday.
No end to Sudan fighting despite progress on truce
AFP, Published on 07/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN - An end to fighting in Sudan still seems far off despite the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, fighting the army for more than two years, endorsing a truce proposal.
UN: Attack on funeral in Sudan kills 40
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN - An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive.
Calm returns to south Syria after violence that killed 1,000: monitor
AFP, Published on 20/07/2025
» SWEIDA (SYRIA) - Calm returned to southern Syria's Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,000 people.
Syria tries to enforce ceasefire in Druze heartland
AFP, Published on 19/07/2025
» SWEIDA, Syria - Syrian interior ministry forces began deploying in Sweida on Saturday under a US-brokered deal intended to avert further Israeli military intervention in the Druze-majority province.
'Mass grave': Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria's Sweida
AFP, Published on 19/07/2025
» SWEIDA (SYRIA) - In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.
Survivor of rare rapid-ageing disease progeria dies at 28
Reuters, Published on 06/10/2024
» MILAN - Sammy Basso, who was the longest living survivor of the rare genetic disease progeria, has died at the age of 28, the Italian Progeria Association said on Sunday.
Israel-Hamas battles heighten fears for people trapped in Gaza hospital
AFP, Published on 12/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES): Intense fighting raged around Gaza's biggest hospital Sunday where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions, as Israel pledged to help evacuate babies from the crippled facility.
Israel-Hamas battles create havoc in Gaza hospitals
AFP, Published on 12/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas trapped thousands of people in Gaza's hospitals on Sunday, as medics and aid workers warned patients will die in the crippled facilities unless there is a pause in the battle.
'Death warrant': Thousands trapped in war-hit Gaza hospital
AFP, Published on 12/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Thousands of displaced Palestinians looked to Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, as a safe haven, but with Israeli strikes intensifying and the fighting reaching the gates of the compound, there seems nowhere for them to escape.