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In 1948, Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi took the dramatic step of banning the Muslim Brotherhood, believing that if the group were dissolved, stability would return to his country. In the three years prior to that move, the Brotherhood had taken a leading role in fomenting riots, strikes, and violence, including the assassinations of […]
Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar. The killing of Sinwar, the mastermind of the deadliest attack in Israeli history, had raised hopes of a turning point in […]
Warner Bros. has released a featurette showing off how art based on concept art from The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim was created. Source link
Editor’s note: We decided to keep our special correspondent anonymous because of concerns about their safety. At 82, Antonio Soares is blind and frail, carefully tended by his family. But time has not dimmed his memory of Sept. 7, 1983, the day that Indonesian soldiers arrived in Kraras, East Timor (also called Timor-Leste). Indonesia had occupied East Timor […]
The Falklands War of 1982 holds several modern geopolitical and tactical precedents that apply to a potential conflict between China and the United States over Taiwan. In both cases, the contested islands are located near a continental nation-state aimed at reunifying such islands to the mainland, despite long periods passing wherein the island residents either […]
North Korea has begun the deployment of around 12,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Friday citing the country’s spy agency, saying it marks Pyongyang’s first large-scale deployment of ground forces. The National Intelligence Service said Pyongyang had deployed 1,500 special forces troops between Oct. 8 and last […]
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Friday it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli troops, as the region continued to reckon with Israel’s claim that top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza the previous day. Hamas has still not responded to the […]
Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Friday said he is considering the Blue Ribbon Committee or Committee on Justice and Human Rights to lead the proposed motu proprio investigation into the war on drugs campaign by the previous administration. Escudero said the Blue Ribbon Committee, chaired by Senator Pia Cayetano, has the authority to conduct motu proprio investigations while the […]
By James Mackenzie, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Samia Nakhoul JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said on Friday it was moving to a new and escalating phase in its war against Israel while Iran said “the spirit of resistance will be strengthened” after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar, a mastermind of the […]
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, U.S. strikes in Yemen, and a fuel tanker tragedy in Nigeria. Israel’s Most Wanted Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar—one of the chief architects of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel—during an military operation in […]