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Taiwan extends compulsory military service amid mounting tensions with China

Tuesday 27-12-2022 03:36 PM

Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to one year amid mounting military tensions with China, the island’s president has announced. Under the plans due to come into ...

Iran holds funerals for troops killed in 1980s Iraq war

Tuesday 27-12-2022 03:09 PM

Thousands of Iranians on Tuesday attended state-organized funerals for 400 soldiers killed in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. Iran’s president, meanwhile, lashed out at the United States and its allies, ...

Protest-backing soccer star’s family kept from leaving Iran

Tuesday 27-12-2022 02:48 PM

A prominent former soccer player in Iran who has expressed support for anti-government protests says his wife and daughter were prevented from leaving the country on Monday after their plane made an ...

Syrian Democratic Forces say 6 fighters killed in IS attack

Tuesday 27-12-2022 02:32 PM

An attack by Islamic State militants in the city of Raqqa on Monday killed six members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which has played a prominent role in the fight against the group, ...

German MPs call for putting IRGC on terrorism list

Tuesday 27-12-2022 02:06 PM

Forty-three members of the Social Democratic Party in the German parliament have called for the inclusion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corpse, widely known by its acronym IRGC, in the list of ...

Houthis commit mass executions in Saada to eliminate opponents

Tuesday 27-12-2022 01:48 PM

Without any judicial rulings, the Iran-backed Houthi militia has relied on executing death sentences against Yemenis on political charges, without referring to any laws, since their coup against ...

From 21st-century trenches, Ukraine’s war poets write acclaimed verse for their times

Monday 26-12-2022 05:34 PM

By day, Yaryna Chornohuz is a Marine paramedic on Ukraine’s eastern front line, where artillery duels have been rumbling with Russian proxy forces since 2014. For sixteen months, even before the ...

Taliban bars women from working in aid in Afghanistan

Monday 26-12-2022 05:21 PM

The Taliban have delivered another blow to women in Afghanistan by ruling they can no longer work in domestic or international non-governmental organisations in the country. Large humanitarian ...

Seven people with British links arrested in Iran over protests

Monday 26-12-2022 03:32 PM

Seven people with links to Britain have been arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards over anti-government protests that have snowballed across the country in recent months, according to reports. The ...

Korea launches jets, fires shots after North flies drones

Monday 26-12-2022 03:08 PM

South Korea’s military fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets and flew surveillance assets across the heavily fortified border with North Korea on Monday, after North Korean drones violated its ...

China sends 71 warplanes, 7 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours

Monday 26-12-2022 02:48 PM

China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan’s defense ministry said Monday, after China expressed anger at ...

Aid Groups Pause Work in Afghanistan After Nation’s Women Are Banned

Monday 26-12-2022 02:34 PM

Aid groups that provide critical humanitarian assistance to millions of Afghans began suspending operations in the country Sunday in response to the weekend decision by the Taliban to ban women from ...

Six Factors That Will Shape Russia’s Winter War in Ukraine

Monday 26-12-2022 02:09 PM

As Russia’s war in Ukraine moves into another year, the next few months will provide critical clues as to whether Moscow’s forces will be able to halt or even reverse the momentum gained by ...

Wounded Yemen: Al-Qaeda threatens to launch war of explosives, army responds with ‘Eastern Arrows’

Monday 26-12-2022 01:41 PM

Al-Qaedas capabilities have been crippled inside Yemen due to the military operation Eastern Arrows, and its elements retreated to the western heights of the Shabwa and Abyan governorates and on ...

Significance of pledge of allegiance to new ‘caliph’ by ISIS branches

Monday 26-12-2022 01:26 PM

The provinces affiliated with ISIS have issued successive pledges of allegiance to the new “caliph” after the death of the previous caliph in October 2022. These pledges do not indicate a major ...