The latest violence comes two days after deadly fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants in the coastal enclave of Gaza was halted by a truce. In the old city of Nablus, an AFP correspondent reported Palestinians trading gunfire with Isr...

"The terrorist Ibrahim al-Nabulsi was killed in the city of Nablus," the army said in a statement, adding that "another terrorist who was staying in the house" also died. Nabulsi was a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, one of the main mili...

A live feed from Russian space agency Roscosmos showed the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite from the Russia-controlled Baikonur cosmodrome at the scheduled time of 0552 GMT. The Russian mission control confirmed its su...

The informal downtown gathering has drawn sartorial adventurists from across the suburbs of the metropolis, including from Citayam, leading it to be dubbed "Citayam Fashion Week". And with their poses and struts all being shared on TikTok and Insta...

"Israeli army and special forces are surrounding the house of a wanted man in Nablus. There is exchange of fire," the army said in a statement. At least 30 Palestinians were wounded and at least one was in serious condition, according to the Red Cr...

Authorities warned there was more rain to come even as emergency workers struggled to clear the hulks of flooded cars, which AFP reporters saw strewn across major intersections throughout the city. Dramatic images shared on social media late Monday...

A low-flying military helicopter dropped flowers as a wagon bearing the flag-draped coffin containing an urn with his ashes rolled through the leafy cemetery grounds, lined with white crosses marking the tombs of dead soldiers also buried at the sit...

Polls opened Tuesday in an unusual presidential election in Kenya, where a longtime opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces a deputy president who styles himself as an outsider. Hundreds of voters lined up hours ahead of pol...

There is hardly a woman in the country who has not lost a male relative in successive wars, while many of their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers have also lost their jobs or seen their income shattered as a result of a deepening economic crisis....

Ukraine reported intense Russian shelling across the frontlines on Tuesday as both sides traded blame for the weekend strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex which triggered international concern about a potential atomic disaster. Follow FRANCE ...

On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was flattened in an inferno that killed 74,000 people, three days after the world's first nuclear bomb attack in Hiroshima. The twin strikes by the United States led to the end of World War II, and to this day Japan rema...

They take their name from "talib", the Arabic word for student -- a reference to the Islamic colleges or madrassas their cadres emerged from. Following a lightning offensive that pushed US-led forces out after 20 years of military presence, the gro...

But one year on, she confesses to feeling "depressed". Like many activists fleeing Afghanistan, her hopes for the future quickly ran into an integration process fraught with obstacles. AFP journalists first met Farazo, a former police officer, day...

The moustachioed 50-year-old with almost half a million Facebook followers posts weekly videos on topics such as protecting fruit trees, dealing with insects and helping people get more from their farms and gardens. "They should make you agricultur...

Hundreds of thousands of girls and young women like Nafeesa have been deprived of the chance of education since the Taliban returned to power a year ago, but their thirst for learning has not lessened. "Boys have nothing to do in the kitchen, so I ...