Terry Anderson was snatched by Islamist militants in war-torn Lebanon in 1985. He was chained and blindfolded during long stretches of his almost seven years in captivity.

As the Gaza war drags into its seventh month, conflict on Sunday was focused on Lebanon and the West Bank, but Israeli officials said further fighting in Gaza has been authorised.

The overnight strikes on Rafah city killed 22 people, most of them children, with one of the victims only 18 months old.

Hundreds of Pakistani women who crossed the frontier into Indian Kashmir decades ago with their ex-militant husbands now find themselves yearning for their homelands and families, but unable to leave.

Islamist bombers hit three churches and three hotels in 2019, killing more than 279 people, but grieving families say they are still awaiting justice.

Pakistan is battling a surge in militant violence on its territory, including frequent attacks on Chinese migrant workers.

Friba Rezayee, the first woman to represent Afghanistan at the Olympics, said Afghan women should still be allowed to participate as part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team.

An official inquiry found in 2023 that the 2017 attack might have been stopped if Britain’s MI5 security service had acted on vital intelligence.

Investigators have uncovered evidence linking last month’s deadly attack on the Karakoram Highway to the same Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan cell that killed nine Chinese nationals in a 2021 bombing on the same road.

March 22 attack in Moscow killed at least 144 people, the deadliest in Russia in 20 years.

Analysts say a thaw in tensions could come with a changing of the guard in Pakistan, with both sides keen to not let ties worsen amid significant challenges.

Rally in Jerusalem calls for remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be brought home. It came as talks to secure another ceasefire that would include the release hostages resumed in Egypt.

Nicaragua has asked International Court of Justice to hand down preliminary orders, including that Germany ‘immediately suspend its aid to Israel’. Initial hearings start on Monday.

The recovery of Elad Katzir’s body brings to 12 the number of hostages which the army says it has brought home from Gaza during the war.

Islamic State, which harbours a virulent hatred for Iran’s dominant Shiite sect, also claimed responsibility for two explosions in Iran in January.

The drone team who killed the aid workers made an ‘operational misjudgment’ after spotting a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of one of the aid trucks.

Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reported earlier that ‘dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed’ had been found around the hospital as Israeli forces pulled out after a military operation there.

The Israeli military said it struck a command centre of the Islamic Jihad militant group and claimed the hospital’s functioning was not affected.

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Suspect was armed with ‘several knives’ that he showed to hostages, prosecutor said. Police said there was no reason to suspect ‘terrorist motive’ for ordeal at night spot in town of Ede.

Using Afghanistan as a homebase, Isis cells have hit targets in Russia, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey this year. Baloch separatists have also stepped up their attacks on Chinese interests in South Asia.

In a message posted on Telegram, IS spokesman Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari also praised the group’s attack that killed more than 140 people in a Russian concert hall near Moscow last week.

In an interview with The New York Times, Amit Soussana said she was forced at gunpoint to perform a sex act on her man guard. Hamas has repeatedly rejected accusations of sexual violence.

Belarusian president, a close Putin ally, said Belarus and Russia had coordinated actions as suspects fled to Bryansk, bordering Ukraine and Belarus, where they were apprehended.

Putin said investigators have not determined who ordered attack but it was necessary to ‘find out why the terrorists, after committing their crime, tried to flee to Ukraine’.

Attack in Russia sparks online debate in China over whether extreme security measures might hurt the post-Covid economy or boost investor confidence.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the militant group has since released what it says is footage from the attack.

The court ordered that the men, all of whom are citizens of Tajikistan, be held in pre-trial custody until May 22.