Ukraine’s International Legion was born in 2022, a home for foreigners eager to fight Russia. Ukraine said 20,000 signed up, though experts said 4,000 was a more realistic peak figure. In 2024, the legion is depleted by years of harsh reality and casualty rates extreme even for Ukraine. Three days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of […]
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Italy’s Meloni to Make Push for Foreign Fighters to Leave Libya
(Bloomberg) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is expected to stress her government’s commitment to ending the presence of foreign fighters in Libya as she promotes her so-called “Mattei plan” for the region during a state visit to the divided African country. Most Read from Bloomberg Meloni will meet officials including Khalifa Haftar, the military […]
Keene, Alvarado fire fighters rescue woman trapped in house fire
Apr. 24—The quick action and concerted efforts of responders are being credited for the survival of a woman trapped in a burning house on April 17. At about 1 p.m., Johnson County dispatchers were alerted of a house fire in the 5700 block of East U.S. 67 in Alvarado. While heading there, they were informed […]
Hamas leader in Gaza met fighters, inspected battle sites
The leader of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yehya al-Sinwar, has recently inspected areas that saw clashes between the militant group and Israeli forces, a senior Hamas official told the Qatar-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper. Al-Sinwar has been leading the movement in the field and reports about him “isolated in the tunnels” […]
Hamas leader in Gaza met fighters, inspected battle sites
The leader of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yehya al-Sinwar, has recently inspected areas that saw clashes between Hamas and Israeli forces, a senior official in the movement told the Qatar-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper. Al-Sinwar has been leading the movement in the field and reports about him “isolated in the tunnels” […]
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Japan showed off the destroyer it’s turning into an aircraft carrier for F-35 stealth fighters
Japan says first modification work on its newly converted light aircraft carrier has been completed. JS Kaga was helicopter carrier identified as a destroyer refitted with to carry F-35 jets. The Kaga will now undergo sea trials, and its results will help with the upgrades on another ship. Japan is showing off the first changes […]
Islamic State-linked fighters kill at least a dozen civilians in eastern Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army says extremist-linked rebels have killed at least a dozen people in a raid on a rural community in the east, in the latest violence near the border with Uganda. Allied Democratic Forces rebels with ties to the Islamic State group have long operated in the border area. The United […]
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A Lebanese nun’s request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms over the group’s weapons
Palestinian fighters battle Israeli forces around Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters battled in close combat around Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital on Thursday, where the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they attacked Israeli soldiers and tanks with rockets and mortar fire The Israeli army said it continued to operate around the hospital complex […]
Video shows kidnapped labourers in Ethiopia, not government soldiers held by rebel fighters
Claims of rebels capturing thousands of Ethiopian soldiers in the country’s restive Amhara region have become a popular disinformation topic on social media. One post recently featured a video of men in civilian clothes being marched down a mountainside by armed individuals. However, the captives in the footage were not Ethiopian troops: officials said the […]