By AFPThey see themselves as the "bold generation" and the "conscious youth" of the African continent.AFP met six African students from Generation Z who, from Dakar to Nairobi, and Johannesburg to Abidjan, displayed a realistic optimism and a desire...

By UN NewsThe UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, condemned efforts by Israeli officials on Tuesday to shut down an UNRWA-run training centre in occupied East Jerusalem.Agency chief Philippe Lazzarini said that Israeli forces and personnel from...

By AFP/Mahmoud ZayyatAli Qashmar walked into his south Lebanon hometown on the Israeli border Tuesday to find bulldozed fields and piles of rubble where there used to be neighbourhoods brimming with life."We came back to breathe the air of our lands...

By AFPLebanese leaders said they were in contact with the United States and France to press Israel to fully withdraw, branding its continued presence in five places an "occupation" after a ceasefire deadline expired on Tuesday.The UN called the incom...

By AFP/Louis Baudoin-LaarmanAn intense Israeli military raid had already sent Qusay Farahat fleeing his home in the occupied West Bank, but the offensive has since expanded, threatening a relative's house where he sought shelter.The raid, which accor...

By AFP/Youssef HassounaFor 500 days since an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza Strip's deadliest war, Mohammed Abu Mursa has grappled with "humiliation, suffering and bloodshed" in his fight for survival.Abu Mursa and his family...

By AFP/Léa DAUPLE with Ania TSOUKANOVA and Andrii KALCHENKOOn Kyiv's central square, hundreds of names and photographs with Ukrainian flags on them fill a memorial honouring troops killed in combat during three years of war with Russia.But as US Pres...

By AFP/Alex PIGMANYoung engineers deployed across the US government as part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have triggered alarm throughout Washington's security establishment.Never before has a group of unvetted and inexperienced...

By AFP with Ruth EglashPalestinians released three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian inmates freed by Israel, completing the latest swap despite fears the Gaza truce deal was near collapse.An AFP journalist saw mask...

By AFP/Louis Baudoin-LaarmanPiles of shattered tarmac and twisted metal, churned up by bulldozers during an Israeli raid on a camp in the occupied West Bank, lined what was left of a devastated main street as inhabitants returned to their homes this...

By AFP/Khaled SoubeihIn a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster might help reveal the Jesuit's fate."We want to know if Fath...

By AFPSyrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open to the public following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad.The city's renowned ruins,...