Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are still occupying a United Nations-run school complex, U.N. officials said Thursday. Dorothee Klaus, director of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, in Lebanon, said
A warning has been issued by one of Libya’s competing prime ministers against further militia clashes, following the deadliest outbreak of violence this year in the capital city of Tripoli, resulting in at least 45 fatalities. The conflict erupted when members of
Libyan security forces patrolled the streets and fanned out across Tripoli on Wednesday, a day after clashes between rival militias killed at least 27 people in the country’s capital, authorities said. The fighting was some of the most intense to shake Tripoli
Clashes between rival militias in Libya’s capital killed at least 27 people and left residents trapped in their homes Tuesday, unable to escape the violence, medical authorities said. The fighting appears to be the most intense to shake Tripoli this year. In
Clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital have left residents trapped in their homes unable to escape the violence, the country’s health ministry said Tuesday, in what appears to be the most intense fighting to rock Tripoli this year. Fighting broke
All 105 soccer fans suspected of being involved in extensive clashes in the Greek capital that ended in the death of a 29-year-old AEK Athens supporter have been ordered to be detained pending their trial, authorities said Sunday. Three examining magistrates and
Indian authorities imposed a curfew, suspended internet service and deployed thousands of paramilitary forces on Tuesday to parts of northern Haryana state after deadly communal clashes spread to Gurugram, a city just outside the capital, New Delhi. The violence began Monday afternoon
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man near a shrine in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, in the latest bloodshed in a cycle of violence that has gripped the region. The months of fighting with rising
Protests in Kenya turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators, leaving at least 12 people wounded. The opposition had organized nationwide protests to demand that President William Ruto’s government address the rising cost of living and repeal a finance law imposing new
In a pre-dawn attack on Monday, Syrian Kurdish fighters targeted Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces in northern Syria, resulting in the deaths of at least five. The attack occurred in an area south of the town of Afrin, which is under the control