KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops are locked in intense battles with the advancing Russian army in two border areas, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while the death toll from a Russian apartment building collapse blamed on Ukrainian shelling rose to 15. Zelenskyy said “fierce...

Israeli tanks have moved into eastern Jabalia in northern Gaza following a night of intense bombardment, which has killed some 19 Palestinians and flattened residential blocks, according to health officials. Israeli fire targeted ambulances near the camp's Unrwa clinic, Wafa news agency is...

Moscow's forces captured five villages in a renewed ground assault in northeastern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday, and Associated Press journalists in the city of Vovchansk described multiple buildings destroyed after Russian airstrikes and barrages of Grad rockets....

(THE CONVERSATION) “Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,”  warned  Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an  October 2022 manifesto . His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year of  brutal civil...