Myanmar’s military has battled ethnic minority and other insurgencies for decades (File) Aizawl, Mizoram: At least 29 more Myanmar soldiers entered Mizoram on Thursday fleeing an attack by insurgents on their military base close to the border, a police official said, as rebels step up their assaults against the ruling junta. Earlier this week, 43 … Read more
The Israeli military was solidifying its hold on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital on Wednesday, after storming the complex overnight. Soldiers were conducting searches and interrogations inside, and Israeli officers said they had found rifles, ammunition, body armor and other military equipment in a radiology building. In a video filmed at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza … Read more
The Israeli military made no mention of finding any tunnel entrances in Al Shifa. It previously said Hamas had built a network of tunnels under the hospital. Hamas has denied it and dismissed the latest army statements. “The occupation forces are still lying … as they brought some weapons, clothes and tools and placed them … Read more
The Israeli military made no mention of finding any tunnel entrances in Al Shifa. It previously said Hamas had built a network of tunnels under the hospital. Hamas has denied it and dismissed the latest army statements. “The occupation forces are still lying … as they brought some weapons, clothes and tools and placed them … Read more
At about 4pm on Wednesday, a column of men, women and children moved slowly through the rubble of the city they had once called home. Above them the blue sky was streaked with smoke. To one side the skeletal remains of houses, stripped by shellfire and bullets to their bare concrete bones. To the other, … Read more
Russia said Wednesday (Nov 15) for the first time that some Ukrainian troops had established positions on the Moscow-held side of the Dnipro River, the vast waterway that splits the frontline in southern Ukraine. A sustained Ukrainian breakthrough across the river would mark a significant tactical success for Kyiv, whose wider counteroffensive has so far … Read more
Image Source : ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES/X Israeli troops with humanitarian aid outside al-Shifa hospital. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) brought desperately-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza’s largest hospital al-Shifa on Wednesday, in the midst of their ‘precise and targeted’ military operation against Hamas militants. “IDF troops are continuing the precise and targeted operation against Hamas in … Read more
A month ago, Israel’s elite Golani infantry brigade was mourning some of its worst losses in 75 years, after bearing the brunt of Hamas’s brutal border assault. At least 72 Golani troops died when Hamas fighters ambushed their positions – and with them also perished Israel’s reputation for military invincibility. Now, though, their surviving comrades … Read more
Medical personnel and the multitude of internally displaced people are now facing a “barbaric assault” on a health facility safeguarded by the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hamas statement said. Israel launched its campaign to annihilate Hamas, the militant group which controls Gaza, after fighters crossed into Israel on Oct 7, rampaging through towns, killing civilians … Read more
GAZA: Israeli troops entered Gaza’s biggest hospital on Wednesday (Nov 15) and were searching its rooms and basement, witnesses said, culminating a siege that caused global alarm after what Israel said was a deadly clash at the gates. Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City has become the main target of the ground operation by Israeli … Read more
Mohamed Muizzu has dismissed reports of him being closer to Beijing. (File) Male: The Maldives’s incoming president Mohamed Muizzu has called on Indian troops to leave after taking office later this week, but told AFP he does not want to redraw regional balance by bringing in Chinese forces instead. “Maldives is too small to be … Read more
Al-Shifa hospital has been the focal point of days of fighting in Israel’s war with Hamas. (File) San Francisco: Hospitals and the patients inside them “must be protected,” the White House said late Tuesday when asked about an operation by its ally Israel, which has sent troops into Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. The White House … Read more