(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan has launched air strikes on Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities, as clashes escalate along the two countries’ shared border.
On Friday, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Islamabad’s patience had run out with the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, declaring that the two countries are now at “open war”.
The declaration came hours after Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Afghanistan was carrying out “large-scale offensive operations” against the Pakistani military along the Durand Line, which separates the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Japan’s plans to deploy missiles on its westernmost island, close to Taiwan, within five years will add to the growing tensions with China, analysts say.
Japanese defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the surface-to-air systems – designed to intercept aircraft and ballistic missiles – will be deployed to Yonaguni island, located about 110 km east of Taiwan, which is claimed by China as its sovereign territory, by March 2031.
“It depends on the progress of...
(New York Times) The Cuban government said it exchanged gunfire with a Florida-based speedboat that had entered its territorial waters Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding six others.
The vessel approached within one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel north of Corralillo, a town in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, according to a statement on the Facebook page of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior.
Cuban border-guard troops on a government...
(Washington Times) Russia could launch a nuclear strike on targets in France and the U.K. if those countries provide Ukraine with nukes, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
According to the state-owned TASS news agency, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has determined that London and Paris have plans to provide Kyiv with nuclear firepower.
“This is a direct transfer of nuclear weapons to a country at war,” said Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council. “Russia would have to...
(CNN) Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a new issue with the rocket set to propel four astronauts on an unprecedented path.
The agency announced Saturday that it had detected a problem with flow of helium, a gas that’s used to pressurize fuel tanks and clean out propellant lines, in the upper part of the Space Launch System, or SLS, moon rocket. Now, the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Mexican forces killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (JNGC), in a high-risk operation in the western state of Jalisco on Sunday.
Security forces tracked El Mencho, one of the United States’s most wanted fugitives, to a property in the mountain town of Tapalpa, central-western Mexico, after receiving intelligence linked to a close associate.
Troops launched a predawn raid on Sunday, triggering hours of gun...
(New York Times) The Mexican government said it killed the nation’s most wanted cartel boss on Sunday, a major victory in its new offensive against the country’s criminal groups and a move that could help reduce pressure from United States President Donald Trump, who has been threatening strikes in Mexico.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was the longtime leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and was widely...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan’s military early on Sunday carried out air raids in Afghanistan, targeting what it called “camps and hideouts” belonging to armed groups behind a spate of recent attacks, including a deadly suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Islamabad.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said in a statement on X on Sunday that the country’s military conducted “intelligence-based, selective operations” against seven camps and hideouts belonging to the Pakistan Taliban, also known...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Donald Trump has slammed the Supreme Court as a “disgrace” after a 6-3 ruling that struck down his global tariffs, asserting that he will maintain the levies through alternative means.
During a Friday news conference, the president attacked the high court for being allegedly “swayed by foreign interests”.
He then proceeded to attack the justices, denouncing the liberal members as a “disgrace to our nation” and the conservatives who sided with...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Gunmen killed at least 50 people and abducted women and children in an overnight assault on a village in northwestern Nigeria’s Zamfara State, authorities and residents said.
The attack started late on Thursday night and continued into Friday morning in Tungan Dutse village in the Bukkuyum area of Zamfara when armed men arrived on motorcycles and began setting fire to buildings and abducting residents.
“They have been moving from one village to...
