Daily News

A warning that some of the images in this report may be disturbing. Rights groups have condemned what they say was the massacre of more than 600 Rohingya civilians in western Myanmar. Survivors say entire families were burned alive or executed last year, by the Arakan Army - a powerful rebel group

The countries that have called today’s session of the UN Security Council have issued a joint statement that condemns Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City, saying that it risks “violating international humanitarian law” and will “only endanger the lives of all civilians in Gaza”. “We call on Israel to urgently reverse this decision and not to implement” the plan, the statement reads. It goes on to say...

Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least ten others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as the military continues its assault across the besieged enclave. At least one person is in critical condition as a result of Thursday’s strike on the Church of the Latin Monastery in Gaza City – known as the Holy Family Church, the Patriarchate...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa says protecting the rights of the Druze minority is a priority and has accused Israel of trying to sow divisions in the country. Israel is threatening to continue its attacks on Syria, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims is to protect the Druze community. Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said all sides involved in the fighting in southern Syri...

senior political analyst Marwan Bishara condemned Israel's strikes on Syria as "vulgar exhibitionism" aimed at asserting regional hegemony, speaking from Paris. He argued Israel exploits minority divisions under false pretexts of protection, just as colonial powers historically did, while deflecting from Gaza's genocide. Bishara noted Damascus' Druze community prefers Syrian unity despite Israeli...

The Israeli army has launched air attacks on the Syrian Defence Ministry and near the presidential palace in the capital, Damascus, as it continues strikes on Syrian forces in the southern city of Suwayda. The strikes come after Israel threatened to increase attacks if Syrian government forces are not withdrawn from the south of the country where there has been fighting between Druze and security...

Fighting continues between Syrian security forces and armed groups in the southern city of Suwayda. It comes hours after a ceasefire was announced after negotiations with local community leaders. Meanwhile, Israel carried out air strikes targeting Syrian forces - entering Suwadya - in what it says was a measure to prevent the troops from attacking the Druze community in the city. The latest fighti...

Andee Clark Vaughan, an Emergency nurse on a volunteer mission with the Palestinian-Australian-New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA), joins live from Gaza City.

senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, speaking from Paris, highlights Israel’s plan to concentrate Gaza’s population in Rafah as part of ongoing forced displacement, calling it a government-backed policy amounting to war crimes. He emphasizes Defence Minister Israel Katz’s extremist views and suggests these actions reflect the broader agenda of Netanyahu’s coalition.

The UN Human Rights office says nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since May trying to get food. Most of them are at sites run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—a group backed by the US and Israel. On Friday alone, 10 people were killed at a GHF site in Rafah, southern Gaza.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun the first steps towards disarmament, closing a chapter on a four-decade armed campaign against the Turkish state in a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.

In this interview, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice discusses the war crimes tribunal and the West’s role in limiting justice for the victims of the Srebrenica massacre. Despite some convictions, many perpetrators remain free, and the full truth has yet to be revealed. Greater support for international courts is needed to achieve true justice.

In this explosive interview, Daniel Levy — president of the US Middle East Project and former Israeli peace negotiator — breaks down what he describes as a systematic plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza.

After 12 days of war, Iran remains on edge. Al Jazeera’s Maziar Motamedi recounts the Israeli strikes on Tehran and what life looks like now under a ceasefire.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned US sanctions against her as "obscene" retaliation for exposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, telling Al Jazeera the move aimed to silence justice efforts. She linked the sanctions to her report naming companies like Google profiting from Gaza’s destruction, insisting: "I want Google to stop supporting a government that killed 60,000 people. " Despite...

A day after Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff said a ceasefire agreement could be reached this week, the US president now seems reluctant to commit to a specific timeframe. Talks between Trump and Netanyahu in Washington failed to reach a breakthrough while indirect negotiations continue between Israel and Hamas in Qatar.

An Israeli blockade on food, aid and medicine has been fuelling a man-made starvation crisis in Gaza for months. Now, a notorious Israeli- and US backed group seems to be using aid to move hundreds of thousands of people to the south - where Israel plans to forcibly transfer Palestinians into a “concentration zone.”

senior political analyst Marwan Bishara highlights that the closure of aid sites in Gaza reflects a deeper plan to push Palestinians south, describing the Global Humanitarian Foundation’s role as complicit with Israeli military objectives. He emphasizes that GHF has operated with questionable transparency from the start and serves political agendas rather than humanitarian needs.

Israeli forces have been carrying out a series of airstrikes in northern Gaza. This is the moment one of the strikes hit the old Gaza City market. A residential building has also been destroyed. Other attacks have targeted areas east of Gaza City. Across the strip, Israeli military attacks have killed at least 39 people since dawn on Wednesday. Many Palestinians are believed to be trapped under ru...

Menachem Klein, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu faces mounting pressure from both Donald Trump and his far-right coalition over a Gaza ceasefire. He said Netanyahu appears to be “buying time,” but it's unclear how long he can delay without losing support on either side.

Israeli airstrikes have devastated northern Gaza, hitting Yafa Street and nearby al-Tuffah neighbourhood. Nearly 20 bombs were dropped in minutes, causing widespread panic and destruction. Paramedics and civil defence crews are unable to reach the site due to ongoing attacks and drone presence. The area is densely populated, with many displaced people caught in the bombardment. Gaza’s last GHF aid...

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin - saying he's frustrated with the growing death toll in Ukraine. Trump's attempts to end the war have been unsuccessful. On Monday, he announced the US will send more defensive weapons to Ukraine, reversing an earlier decision.

senior political analyst Marwan Bishara highlights that while ceasefire talks are ongoing in Doha, the real power lies with Washington, where Netanyahu and Trump shape the outcomes. He emphasizes that this is not a genuine peace process between Palestinians and Israelis but rather a transactional arrangement between Israel and the US.

Annelle Sheline, a former US State Department official, says it is not only Israel committing “horrific crimes” in Gaza, but the United States is also an accomplice. She noted that American mercenaries are now on the ground in Gaza as part of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. “There’s been whistleblowers reporting these Americans are firing on Palestinians seeking aid. So to be clear...

UNRWA spokesperson Tamara al-Rifai condemned Israel’s proposed "humanitarian city" in Rafah as a violation of humanitarian principles, arguing it would transform Gaza into an even more confined open-air prison. Speaking to Al Jazeera from Amman, she dismissed the plan as unfeasible given Gaza’s destruction and the collapse of aid systems, noting UN agencies have been blocked since March while leth...