Germany’s Foreign Office has announced an additional 8 million euros in humanitarian support for Syria as European governments reassess policy after the Assad regime’s collapse.
On Dec. 11, 2024, Haiti's main international airport reopened for commercial flights after a shutdown triggered by gang violence and gunfire that struck aircraft in November.
An IRC-backed watchlist says Sudan is still the biggest humanitarian emergency ever recorded, with conflict since April 2023 pushing millions from their homes and leaving nearly half the country in need of aid.
2024-12-11 event: the House of Commons backed a budget measure funding ammunition, training, mine clearance and cyber resilience for Kyiv, with the Senate still to vote.
Lebanon's health ministry said strikes hit Ainata, Bint Jbeil and Beit Lif, deepening pressure on a ceasefire that both sides had already accused the other of violating.
Jubaland forces said they took full control of Ras Kamboni and its airstrip after a battle with Somali federal troops, while about 300 soldiers surrendered and crossed toward Kenya.
Swiss authorities have suspended new and pending asylum proceedings for Syrians while they review conditions after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
The United Nations says aid to northern Gaza has been largely blocked for 66 days, cutting off between 65,000 and 75,000 people from food, water, electricity and health care.
The army said security forces killed 15 militants and lost one soldier in an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan, a province already hit by a surge in separatist violence.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said the country is already hosting Russian nuclear weapons and is readying facilities for Moscow’s newest hypersonic missile.
The Arakan Army says it captured the last military outpost in Maungdaw, a move it says gives it full control of the border with Bangladesh as Myanmar’s civil war widens.
2024-12-09 event: attacks in Jabalia, Rafah and central Gaza killed dozens while doctors warned power cuts threatened more than 100 patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
VIN News reported Israeli airstrikes on Daraa, Damascus-area bases and other military facilities on December 9, 2024, as Syria's military infrastructure came under sustained attack.
Volunteer rescuers in Sudan said shelling hit a fuel station in Khartoum, killing 28 civilians in an attack that further deepened the capital’s wartime emergency.