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Global or regional conflicts are covered either in the news items or in the OpEds. This category covers both potential and kinetic conflicts. The conflicts that are covered may or may not be Pakistan-specific.
On September 7, 2025, nearly two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, the human ledger is staggering. According to the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA), 63,746 Palestinians have been killed and 161,245 wounded in Gaza since 7 Oct...
ENJOYING the impunity it has in conducting a genocide in Gaza and ethnic-cleansing in the West Bank, the apartheid state of Israel violated Qatar’s sovereignty when its warplanes attacked a house in a ...
WHILE Benjamin Netanyahu is the architect of the genocide in Gaza and continues to sow chaos across the Middle East, we must ‘appreciate’ his ‘honesty’ regarding one issue: consistent opposition to a Palestinia...
KARACHI: Almost two years after Hamas’s assault, Israel’s campaign to eliminate the group has spilled far beyond Gaza, morphing into a regional war with neither borders nor an end in sight. What began as bombardment of the P...
The UN General Assembly's adoption of the 'New York Declaration' — a resolution seeking to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — marks a monumental development in the painful history of the protracted Middle Ea...
GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes hit two UN schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City with more than 40 people killed since dawn on Saturday throughout the war-battered Strip, Al Jazeera reported. Gaza’...
MOSCOW: A Ukrainian drone crashed into one of Russia’s largest oil refining complexes on Saturday, sparking a fire and causing minor damage, a Russian official said. The complex, which belongs to Russian oil company Bashnef...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said on Saturday that more than 250,000 people had fled Gaza City since it began intensifying operations there, as Palestinian officials reported many had been unable to evacuate south due to over...
KYIV: Romania became the latest NATO member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace Saturday, as Poland scrambled aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the border in Ukraine. Ukrainian Pres...
It’s almost comic how quickly Arab leaders rush to call Israel a “coward” the moment another red line is crossed, as if a few press statements will reverse a decades-long collapse in Arab deterrence. The only real cowardic...