U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline, after American forces rescued an aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines.
The niece and grand-niece of the deceased commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gen Qasem Soleimani, have been arrested, the US State Department has said.
A missing US service member whose fighter jet was shot down over Iran has been rescued by US forces, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post early Sunday.
Eight people from different African countries have been deported to Uganda from the United States, the first of such transfer under a migration deal signed last year.
Four children - aged about two and three years old - have been "brutally stabbed and killed" at a nursery school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, police said.
Iranian and American forces raced each other Saturday to recover a crew member of the first US fighter jet to go down inside Iran since the start of the war.
Iran’s biggest bridge near Tehran has crashed down in a stunning scene captured on camera following reports of U.S. airstrikes, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, as he pressed the regime to make a deal before tensions escalate further.
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Randy George has been asked to step down by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and to take immediate retirement, two U.S. defence officials and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
Government and allied forces in Burkina Faso have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants have since 2023, according to a tally of incidents documented in a report published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch.
Cuba on Thursday said it would free more than 2,000 prisoners from the island's jails, according to state-run media, the second time this year its communist-run government has announced a prisoner amnesty amid talks with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Sixteen Kenyans are missing in Russia after joining the country's army, Kenya's foreign affairs minister has said, while 47 others have returned home from the front lines in Ukraine.
