World Oct 03 Lebanese civilians increasingly become victims of escalating Israel-Hezbollah conflict Israeli forces kept up their punishing attacks across southern Lebanon and in the capital Beirut. Civilians have increasingly become victims of this escalating conflict, and now, medical workers are under fire. As special correspondent Leila Molana Allen reports, the strikes…
World Oct 02 Israel continues raids in Lebanon while weighing response to Iran’s missile attack Fears of a regional war in the Middle East accelerated as Iran is bracing for an Israeli response to Tuesday's ballistic missile barrage. In Lebanon, Israeli forces suffered significant losses as their ground invasion targeting Hezbollah militants pressed on. Leila…
World Sep 29 People in Lebanon fear echoes of past all-out war with Israel in latest airstrikes Israel kept up its bombardment of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Sunday and also targeted strikes at Houthi fighters in Yemen, another Iran-backed militant group. President Biden said all-out war in the Middle East has to be avoided and that he…
World Sep 03 Sudanese teachers and shopkeepers join the fight against rebels in nation’s civil war International aid groups issued a joint declaration that the hunger crisis in Sudan is of historic proportions. For nearly 18 months, the country has been embroiled in a civil war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. With…
World Aug 26 Sudanese families describe their search for sanctuary as the brutal civil war rages on In total, 11 million Sudanese have been forced from their homes because of the country's bitter civil war between the army and a rogue militia. Up to 150,000 are feared dead and millions more face unimaginable trauma. In her third…
World Aug 21 Hardliners violently expel Palestinians to expand Israeli settlements in West Bank While Gaza endures a devastating war, an increasingly brutal battle is being fought over land in another Palestinian territory: the West Bank. Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians there more frequently and ferociously than ever before and forcing them to flee…
World Aug 20 How Sudan’s civil war has ravaged millions of people’s lives in cities on the front lines For nearly a year and a half, Sudan’s army has been locked in a brutal civil war with a militia known as the Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has devastated the country and triggered the world’s largest displacement of people.
World Aug 16 Amid brutal civil war, Sudan’s VP defends refusal to participate in U.S.-led peace talks Sudan has been caught in a bloody war between the country’s army and a militia for 16 months with tens of millions of civilians caught in between. This week, the United States attempted peace talks in Geneva, but the Sudanese…
World May 03 Prisons holding ISIS members in Syria a breeding ground for radicalization, officials say It’s been five years since the Islamic State was defeated by a U.S.-led military campaign in Syria. But today some 10,000 ISIS fighters remain jailed inside Syrian detention centers. Human rights groups call conditions in the prisons abusive and local…