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In a major blow to Israel’s regional dominance, the US has rebuffed demands by Tel Aviv to maintain a larger military presence in north-east Syria, a decision which will have a significant impact on the occupation state’s strategic ambitions in the region. Reports in Middle East Eye and the New York Times indicate that the administration of President Donald Trump has proceeded with plans to reduce US troop numbers in Syria. The move poses serious concerns for…

The Sudanese army said today that its forces had killed 60 militants from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan.

A military statement said its forces and allied groups repelled a violent attack by RSF forces west of the city yesterday, killing 60 militants and injuring 52 others.

According to the statement, five civilians were killed and 40 others injured, including women, in RSF artillery…

An Israeli air strike has forced a children’s hospital out of service in the Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv continued its genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave, the Health Ministry said today.

A ministry statement said Al-Durrah Children’s Hospital in Gaza City is now out of service after it sustained damage in an Israeli air strike yesterday.

The ministry said an Israeli missile hit the hospital’s upper building, damaging the intensive care unit and…

Israel’s president said in Poland on Thursday the return of hostages held by Palestinian militants in Gaza was a “universal moral imperative” and called on the international community to help end “this horrific humanitarian crime”.

Isaac Herzog spoke from the southern city of Oswiecim, the site of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the occasion of the annual March of the Living to commemorate its victims.

Auschwitz was the largest of the extermination camps built by Nazi…