2025

Nigeria’s military has launched an offensive against a new rebel group said to be affiliated with ISIL.

In Pictures Guards from the opposition Syrian Military Operations Department outside “Palestine Branch” after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. [Belal Khaled/Al Jazeera] By Belal KhaledPublished On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 Damascus, Syria – “Palestine Branch”, also known as Branch 235, is an intelligence-run prison in Syria that everyone in the country feared and loathed….

At the EU’s external border in Bulgaria, the refugee horror story continues I spent a summer providing medical care to refugees in Bulgaria and these are some of their stories. Nabiha Islam Internal Medicine physician based in Toronto Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 A Syrian refugee is pictured in a camp in the…

Nine killed in roadside bomb attack in central India Police said eight policemen and a driver were killed in bomb blast set off by Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh. Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 At least eight policemen and a driver have been killed in central India when a bomb blast set off by…

Israeli forces use an ambulance to carry out a raid in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian Authority shuts down several Al Jazeera digital platforms The decision came after the PA closed Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank, temporarily suspending its work. Al Jazeera broadcast engineer Mohammad Salameh works at the Master Control Room unit inside the network’s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah [File: Nasser Nasser/AP]…

South Korea authorities seek extension of warrant to arrest impeached Yoon Former President Yoon Suk Yeol has defiantly refused questioning over a bungled martial law decree last month. People take part in a protest against impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol near his official residence in Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2025 [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]…

What is a polar vortex, the weather event causing winter storms in the US? The expanding of the polar vortex – an area of cold air around the Arctic – southwards is causing cold spells in the US. A United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) Boeing 747 cargo jet sits parked in the snow at Louisville…

In Pictures Elementary school students eat free meals at Lengkong 1 elementary school in Tangerang, Indonesia [Adi Weda/EPA] Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious multibillion-dollar programme to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people is officially under way, with 570,000 mouths to feed on its…

Indonesia sack football coach Shin in search of FIFA World Cup 2026 spot South Korean coach Shin Tae-yong is let go after four years as Indonesian football chief eyes World Cup qualification. Indonesia are third in their FIFA World Cup 2026 Asian qualification group after six of 10 matches [File: Bay Ismoyo/AFP] Published On 6…