At least 24 people were killed and another 53 injured in a second day of heavy fighting in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, two doctors said, after local leaders declared their intention to rejoin federal Somalia. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in
Pope Francis opened the second and final leg of his African pilgrimage by heading to South Sudan on Friday, hoping to encourage the young country’s stalled peace process and draw international attention to continued fighting and a worsening humanitarian crisis. Francis had
A load of more than 60 Bradley fighting vehicles departed South Carolina for Ukraine last week as part of the latest $2.5 billion package in military aid that the Biden administration announced earlier this month. The armored vehicle, named after World
A senior US general privately warned Ben Wallace that the British Army is no longer a top-level fighting force, a report has claimed. Defence sources have warned that decades of budget cuts preceded the UK military’s decline in war-fighting capability. It has
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has been warned by a senior US general the British Army is no longer regarded as a top fighting force – and is barely on the same level as Germany and Italy. Insiders have also suggested Prime Minister
A senior U.S. general has recently warned U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace that the British Army is no longer considered to be among the world’s top-tier fighting forces, according to a Sunday report. The source told Wallace that decades of cuts to
Tyre Nichols’s mother, RowVaughn Wells, has said she is “not going to stop” until those responsible for the death of her son’s death are “prosecuted to the fullest of law”. Ms Wells has given an interview with the US news network MSNBC
A six-year-old boy is dangerously ill in hospital after he was involved in a collision with a motorcylist in Bristol – with the driver failing to stop at the scene. Police have issued an urgent witness appeal after the accident, in which
A Russian known as “the Black Realtor” has left prison after fighting for six months in Ukraine as part of the Russian military. Alexander Tyutin, a 66-year-old real estate agent who had hired hitmen to kill his business partner and his family
Ukrainian soldiers are reported to have captured two German members of the pro-Russian PMC Wagner during fighting for the eastern city of Bahkmut. The Wagner Organisation has been designated as a “transnational criminal organisation” and the mercenary group has been linked with