By AFPSudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan arrived at Khartoum's recaptured presidential palace on Wednesday, declaring the capital "free" of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after nearly two years of war."Khartoum is free, it's done," said...

By AFP with Cyril JulienAn Israeli air strike killed a journalist working with Al Jazeera on Monday and the military issued fresh calls to evacuate parts of Gaza's north, as Israel pressed its renewed bombardment and ground operations in the Palestin...

By AFP/Nina LARSONHard-hit by US aid funding cuts, the UN migration agency's move to lay off thousands has sparked an internal "rebellion" by dozens of staff, who are demanding its donors take action, AFP has learned.Like many humanitarian agencies,...

By AFP/Joana SabaWhen he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean coast, Dhulfiqar Ali had escaped death not once but twice.He is among thousands of Syrians who have fled ac...

By AFP/Alice CHANCELLORIsraeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened Friday to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory.The warning came as Israel pressed the...

By AFP/Nina LARSONThe UN warned Friday that all of Gaza's approximately one million children were facing "massive trauma" as fighting in the war-ravaged territory resumed, and amid dire aid shortages.Humanitarians described an alarming situation in G...

By AFPA community of Palestinian Bedouins has decried a major theft of their livestock in the occupied West Bank, where the UN says violence from Israeli settlers is taking place in a climate of impunity.On March 7, dozens of Israeli settlers, some o...

By AFP/Chloe ROUVEYROLLES-BAZIREAid workers in the Palestinian territories told AFP they are concerned that rules recently floated by Israel could make already difficult humanitarian work "almost impossible".Since the war in Gaza broke out with Hamas...

By AFPA man in tears struggled Wednesday to retrieve the body of a small boy from under the rubble of a building in Gaza City hit by a recent wave of Israeli air strikes.One by one, relatives and neighbours used a sledgehammer to try to break apart t...

By AFPIsrael must evacuate all settlers from the West Bank and make reparations for decades of illegal settlement, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, describing the policy as "a war crime"."The transfer by Israel of parts of its own civilian populatio...

By AFP teams in Gaza with Marc JourdierIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that massive overnight strikes on Gaza were "only the beginning" and that future negotiations with Hamas "will take place only under fire".The strikes,...

By AFP/Nina LARSONUNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini acknowledges that it has been "stressful" leading the embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, but says he is confident he is "on the right side of history".The 61-year-old head of the United Nati...