Indications that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be ready to agree to end the assault on Gaza that has killed 44,800 people – with thousands more lost under the rubble and presumed dead – could raise hopes of an end to the war. After meeting with Netanyahu this week, United ...

In Gaza, the Israeli military continues on the offensive, and in the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past week courting more support for Israel’s assault on the Palestinian enclave. But that apparently shared purpose does not reflect the reality: a growing ...

People in Gaza and Sudan face famine on a catastrophic scale, the UN and humanitarian organisations are warning. In Gaza, 27 people – 23 of them children – have starved to death as a result of what international bodies say is Israel’s use of hunger as a weapon of war. And in Sudan, the ...

With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach in Africa. Russia, in the form of the private military contractor (PMC) Wagner, has been a growing presence in Libya since at least 2018, ...

The interim orders issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Israel amid its war on Gaza on Friday are significant, but their immediate implications are “limited” say some experts. On Friday, the ICJ issued its preliminary ruling in the case, filed by South Africa in December, ...