Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, asking the group to disband. It was the first reaction from the PKK after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of his Kurdistan Workers’ Party...

Hamas’s armed wing on Saturday released footage showing what appeared to be several Israeli hostages in Gaza, as the first phase of a fragile ceasefire neared its expiry amid uncertainty over the next steps. The video released by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which AFP was unable to...

Hamas said on Saturday that it rejected Israel’s “formulation” of extending the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, on the day the first stage of the deal was set to expire. The group’s spokesperson Hazem Qassem also told Al-Araby TV there were no current talks for a second...

Ordinary Ukrainians were dumbfounded by Friday’s raised-voice confrontation between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the White House. “I just don’t even have the words,” said 32-year-old Roman Shkanov, an office worker. “For such a strong...