Afghan Taliban soldiers look towards the Pakistani side, with one peering through the sight of his rifle, on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, February 27, 2026. (AP Photo / Wahidullar Kakar) ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged cross-border attacks overnight in a dramatic escalation of tensions that led Pakistan’s defense minister to say on Friday that the two countries are in a state of “open war.”

Crossing to Europe offers hope but exposes refugees to peril, as militia abuse persists in unsafe Libya. Migrants onboard a rubber boat wave and gesture as they wait to be rescued by crew members of the Ocean Viking rescue ship in the search-and-rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea near the Libyan coast, on January 16, 2026 [AFP] The new year is less than two months in, but already more than 560 people have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe, m

Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel's expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – and to begin to grasp its bitter implications, post-October 7 An Arab child leaving his village with his neighbors, in 1948. This and other photos on [Haarezt] pages were part of a trove of rare documents collected by Golani soldier Rafi Kotzer, which was recently found on the street. Just about two years ago, in late March 2024, Ronit Zilberman,

Südafrika wirft Israel einen Genozid in Gaza vor. Die Bundesregierung will sich dem entgegenstellen. Sie sucht nach Argumenten – bevor bald eine Frist ausläuft Ein Palästinenser in Gaza betrauert im Januar 2026 die Toten nach einem Luftangriff. © Dawoud Abu Alkas/​Reuters Fanny Haimerl ist Journalistin und Politologin. Sie studiert Rechtswissenschaften und hat unter anderem für die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" und den "Tagesspiegel" gearbeitet. Franka Weckner ist Völkerrechtlerin un

"The legislature did not include a grace period." Kansas Sate Capitol | @farzinvousoughian Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles stating that they must surrender their driver's licenses and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the law's publication in the Kansas Register on Thursday. Should any transgender person be caught driving without a valid license, they could face a class B

One of the two settlements is Efrat, which has a large number of US citizens among its residents | AFP The US is preparing to start offering passport services in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank for the first time. A statement posted on Tuesday to the US embassy's X account said consular officers "will be providing routine passport services" to US citizens in the settlement of Efrat on Friday. It names another settlement, Beitar Illit, as the location for a simil

Group says its new public database reveals extent of broad crackdown on solidarity movement.

As Israel Prison Service serves settlers lunch in its facility, Palestinian prisoner rights groups warn of ongoing starvation amid Ramadan

Former Vice President Harris at the London Literature Festival 2025. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images) Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The Democratic National Committee's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since pa

The Palestinian Authority has delivered little improvement to the lives of Palestinians | EPA With Israeli settler violence surging in the occupied West Bank, al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah, has found itself on the frontline. It faces regular incursions by the Israeli army and has seen farmland seized by settlers who have built new outposts. Marzoq Abu Naim from the village council says the settlers aim to force out Palestinians. "They're doing it silently, not openly,