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Philippines set for historic vote in Bangsamoro after decades of conflict

Brics members agree they need a new global order but it's harder to answer what should replace it and how to get there.

Government forces and Saudi Arabia carry out air attacks to stop Houthis' advance as thousands displaced by conflict.

Israeli strikes on Gaza persist despite a 'ceasefire' brokered by the United States.

Houthi fighters on Sunday said they used drones and missiles to attack a military base in southern Saudi Arabia as renewed fighting with Yemen’s government forces forced growing numbers of civilians to flee. The attack at the southern Sharurah base targeted “weapons depots and command and control centres that are managing the aggression against our nation and people”, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on social media. The date of the operation was not specified. Clashes have increased...

Trump said in Dublin a Falklands conflict would be a potential disaster and offered to settle it, a day after Argentina decreed a Malvinas compliance system. The post Trump Calls a Falklands Conflict a Potential Disaster appeared first on The Rio Times.

According to the NIA, the amir/chief/founder of the proscribed terrorist organisation LeT was operating from Pakistan and providing weapons, money and directions to terrorists operating in Kashmir valle

In Gaza, weddings have become acts of defiance. Couples marry in tents and rebuild, choosing love despite suffering.

The Iran-backed Houthi forces have taken control over most of the western Red Sea coastal line

Seilen Haokip of Kuki National Organisation says there is a deliberate effort to spread violence beyond existing conflict zones and draw the Naga and Kuki communities into a broader confrontation. The objective includes reviving support for NSCN-IM, he says

Israeli attacks on the occupied Palestinian territory continue despite a 'ceasefire' brokered in October.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States may hit Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, warning them "not to get cute." He also commented that oil prices that have surged because of the Iran war likely won’t come down until after US midterm elections, as his advisors warned the conflict could extend through the remainder of his presidency. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

How a colonial legacy continues to shape conflict and identity.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they have attacked and damaged two U.S. warships and eight oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, in what they call retaliation for a U.S. strike on Iranian tankers.

The reported truce follows the release of 360 villagers abducted during a Boko Haram attack in northeastern Nigeria.

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Jules Grange Gastinel, Researcher at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM). He depicts Yemen as moving from a prolonged condition of unresolved conflict into renewed regional confrontation. The relative calm established after 2022, he argues, never amounted to a durable political settlement: Yemen remains divided between rival political, financial and military institutions. 

A battle for control of Yemen’s coastal plains overlooking the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, launched on Friday by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, is rapidly intensifying into an all-out war with Saudi-backed government forces. A wave of Houthi missile and drone strikes launched against four cities in southern Saudi Arabia early on Tuesday, injuring 73 civilians, may prove to be the tipping point in the conflict, analysts say. Coinciding with an escalating battle of attrition between the United...

Al Jazeera visualises how attacks on civilian infrastructure have more than doubled during the course of the war.

The Iran-backed Houthi militant group targeted Saudi oil facilities and some other civilian infrastructure on Tuesday (September 8, 2026), triggering widespread apprehensions about further escalation in the West Asia conflict

The US on Tuesday struck multiple Iranian tankers in response to more attempted missile attacks on a Navy warship, according to a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations. Iranian state television also is reporting that US forces attacked Iranian oil tankers near the southern port of Jask and near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. The latest tit-for-tat strikes come as Washington and Tehran lurch back towards fighting during more than six months...

Women and children remain trapped in Syria’s Roj camp

This phase of the war could be the start of another protracted conflict rather than a decisive campaign, say analysts.

Africa Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Nigerian Army soldiers pictured during a live-fire exercise last month; new reporting this week confirmed the same military has held a secret three-month ceasefire with Boko Haram that… The post Africa Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 8, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Spokesperson for Saudi-led coalition says Houthis have targeted civilian sites in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran.

Israel on Monday threatened a “full-scale war” against the Palestinian Authority if it believed the West Bank-based body was preparing an attack on Israeli forces or settlements resembling Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault. The warning was denounced by Palestinian authorities as an attempt to fuel the conflict during the Israeli election season.

The United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese warned Monday that large-scale rubble removal in parts of Gaza under Israeli control could risk erasing "evidence relevant to the investigation of alleged international crimes". Israel's bombardment and ground offensive on Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry.

Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon began at dawn on Sunday, killing at least 10 people.

Military sources in Yemen say more than 140 combatants were killed in fighting between its government and Houthi rebels in the southwest of the country over the weekend. Days-long clashes have erupted in the country over the control of a gateway to the Red Sea, marking the deadliest fighting in the Arabian Peninsula country since a 2022 ceasefire between the two sides collapsed in July.

An eight-year-old girl and her father were killed when an Israeli strike hit their vehicle on her first day of school.

West Bank farmers defy daily settler attacks, sheep theft, and military restrictions to protect their land.