KABUL (SW) – Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a meeting with Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and her accompanying delegation on Saturday.
MONITORING (SW) – Israeli warplanes bombed a kindergarten where displaced people were sheltering east of Rafah at dawn on Sunday, the Wafa news agency reported.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated from their families nearly four months into Israel’s assault on the enclave, the United Nations children’s agency estimates.
MONITORING (SW) – China demanded on Thursday that Ukraine immediately remove more than a dozen Chinese companies from a list of firms designated as “international sponsors of war”, saying it wanted Kyiv to “eliminate negative impacts”.
KABUL (SW) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for Afghanistan’s de-facto government, has hailed the acceptance of credentials for Afghanistan’s Ambassador Bilal Karimi by the President of China as a significant achievement.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran will respond to any threat from the United States, Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ chief Hossein Salami said on Wednesday, as Washington weighs its response to the killing of American servicemen by Tehran-aligned militants.
KABUL (SW) – Abdul Jabbar Takhari, the Consul General of Afghanistan in Karachi city, Pakistan, has announced the release of 19 Afghan citizens from Pakistani prisons.
MONITORING (SW) – Israeli forces have shot dead three Palestinians inside a hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
MONITORING (SW) – The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Judy Ginsburg, has told Al Jazeera that the body has called on Israel to investigate accusations of crimes against journalists in the Gaza Strip.
MONITORING (SW) – Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 wounded in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants on U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and U.S. officials said on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – A UK vessel shot down a Houthi drone in the Red Sea, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has said, as tensions in the Middle East soar amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
MONITORING (SW) – The secretary-general of the United Nations on Sunday called on countries to continue funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza after several of its employees were accused of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the war four months ago.
