Uncertainty

Another blast inside a UN position has underscored just how perilous southern Lebanon has become, with three peacekeepers injured on Friday in what a UN spokesperson called “a difficult week” for troops operating in the heart of UNIFIL’s area. The latest incident came after two separate attacks earlier in the week killed three Indonesian soldiers and wounded three others. Taoiseach Micheál Martin described the violence as a “shocking escalation”. Even as the Blue Helmets insist they will hold their ground, conditions on the…

Washington’s case for the US operation in Iran remains as murky as ever, with shifting explanations about its purpose and endgame leaving Americans and allied governments struggling to pin down exactly what the mission is meant to achieve. The Trump administration’s public message has repeatedly shifted, as the president and his top officials offer conflicting accounts of why the campaign began, what success looks like and when it is supposed to conclude. Since the start of March, President Donald Trump has said more than a…

“Meat grinder” assaults. That was the stark phrase used by Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, to characterize Russian tactics on parts of the 1,200km front in mid-March. From Tuesday, 17 March through Friday, 20 March, Russian troops carried out more than 600 assault operations across the entire frontline, General Syrskyi said this week in a post on the Facebook page of Ukraine’s armed forces. He said those attacks left Russia with more than 6,000 casualties in only four days. Ukrainian and Western military…

Bulgaria will adopt the euro on Thursday, becoming the 21st member of the currency union in a move supporters say will anchor the economy and deepen ties to the West — even as a skeptical public fears higher prices and fresh instability. The shift ends more than two decades of operating under a strict currency board, in which the lev was first pegged to the German mark and later to the euro after the single currency’s rollout in 2002. Joining now gives Sofia a seat at the table where monetary policy decisions are made, a…

Whoever Leads Them, ISIS in Somalia Keeps Fighting — and Its Leader’s Fate Remains a Mystery BOSASO, Somalia — After months of airstrikes, ground offensives and rumours, the fate of the man who once laid the foundation for ISIS in Somalia remains unresolved. Abdulkadir Mumin, the group’s widely recognised founder, has not been seen in public for months. His absence has left local communities, Puntland State authorities and international monitors speculating — and a violent campaign in the Al‑Miskaad mountains grinding on.…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed admiration for Donald Trump, particularly as Trump's recent election victory casts shadows over Ukraine's ongoing conflict with Russia. In recent months, Ukraine has faced increasing territorial setbacks. Enhanced and better-equipped Russian forces are making significant inroads in crucial eastern regions, leading to some of the most intense combat witnessed since Moscow's aggression began in February 2022. Trump has been vocal about his discontent with America's current…

President Joe Biden has expressed uncertainty about the potential for a calm U.S. election this coming November. He attributed this unsettling sentiment to inflammatory remarks made by his Republican rival, Donald Trump, who continues to deny the legitimacy of his 2020 electoral loss. The President's apprehension arrived against a backdrop of growing trepidation among political figures and analysts over the fierce rhetoric echoing through the campaign trail leading up to the election. Trump, having narrowly escaped an…

The Nigerian president is spending his first official trip to the insecure Diffa region. After visiting the soldiers, he will go this Friday, July 2, to the village of Baroua, where the people have abandoned their village for six years due to repeated attacks by Boko Haram. as reported from Niamey, Moussa KakaInstead of the No.…

A few days before the deadline, neither Brussels nor Kinshasa can provide further information on the terms of this refund. In this context, some twenty personalities who are very involved in this issue, such as the historian Elikia M'Bokolo, the filmmaker Raoul Peck or even the researcher Ludo de Witte, have just published a column entitled "La Belgique va-t-elle se bli get rid of Lumumbas remains in silence and shame? " All these doubts about the dates, as we see, show that it was not prepared in…

The jihadist chief is claimed to be significantly injured or probably useless after attempting to kill himself to flee the lads in Iswap, the department of Boko Haram affiliated with the Islamist state group. In 2016, Boko Haram was divided into two teams: Iswap on one aspect and on the opposite, a historic faction nonetheless led by Abubakar Shekau. Its stronghold in Sambisa was stormed on Wednesday,…