As Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi insurgents continue to violently disrupt US, Israeli, and Western commercial shipping in the Middle East, the US military on January 8 carried out air strikes against two of the militant group’s weapons storage facilities in Yemen. The US suffered no injuries or damage to property in the operation.

Responding to US President-elect Donald Trump’s recent statement that he would not rule out military action to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark, France on Wednesday warned that Europe is “strong” and will not allow another nation to attack its “sovereign borders,” Reuters reports.

The US Biden administration this week accused the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide against the people of Sudan amid the ongoing civil war in the country, BBC News reports.

Iranian ally President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted by Islamic insurgents just one month ago, and Iran has already withdrawn most of its troops from the country, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was back home Thursday after spending nearly three weeks behind bars in one of Iran’s most notorious prisons.

The founder of a website used by Dominique Pelicot to recruit strangers to rape his wife has been arrested in France after scores of men were jailed over one of the nation’s worst abuse cases.

Investors are reportedly increasingly concerned that China risks sliding into an economic malaise that could last decades.

The final days of Syria’s autocratic President Bashar al-Assad “unfolded in complete chaos,” with him being used as “a puppet” by various nations, a senior aid revealed Wednesday.

Iran’s military has launched massive drills aimed at improving its air defenses as Tehran rushes to enrich uranium to near atomic bomb levels, Worthy News monitored Wednesday.

The founder of France’s far-right National Rally party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had convictions for Holocaust denial and a penchant for racist and antisemitic remarks, has died, his family confirmed. He was 96.