Kurdish forces had controlled pockets of Syria's second city Aleppo and operate a de facto autonomous administration

CENTCOM's post on X did not give specifics on where they took place.

Maduro Guerra spoke in a video released by the ruling PSUV party.

The demonstrations sparked by severe economic pressures have swelled and turned to ousting the clerical authorities.

More than 1,000 rallies planned nationwide this weekend against federal government's deportation drive

“We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not,” Trump said at a White House meeting with oil executives looking to benefit in Venezuela, where the United States last week overthrew the president.

Rights groups expressed alarm on Saturday that Iranian authorities were intensifying a deadly crackdown under cover of an internet blackout, after another night of mass protests in the biggest demonstrations to face the Islamic republic in years.

One person died and seven others were missing Saturday after a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said.

South Africa yesterday began naval drills with Russia, Iran and China, describing the manoeuvres off its coast as not merely a show of force but a vital response to rising maritime tensions.

US President Donald Trump’s sweeping increasingly is sparking violent confrontations with both migrants and US citizens, a development grimly underscored by an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman this week.

A federal judge said on Friday she will block US President Donald Trump’s administration from cutting short temporary legal status for 10,000 to 12,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,

Rights groups yesterday expressed alarm that Iranian authorities were intensifying a deadly crackdown under cover of an internet blackout on the biggest demonstrations in the Islamic republic in over three years after another night of mass protests.

Venezuela was set to hold talks on Saturday with US envoys in Caracas on restoring diplomatic ties, days after US forces deposed Nicolas Maduro as its president.

Greenland’s political parties said they did not want to be under Washington as US President Donald Trump again suggested using force to seize the mineral-rich Danish autonomous territory, raising concern worldwide.

When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets his Danish and Greenlandic counterparts next week, Denmark will be defending a territory that has been moving steadily away from it and towards independence since 1979.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview published on Friday that he hopes to “taper off” Israeli dependence on US military aid in the next decade.

The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said on Saturday that 600,000 residents were without electricity, heating and water after a Ukrainian missile strike.

Interim President Delcy Rodriguez pledges to cooperate with Trump

Says internet freedom monitor Netblocks

He is expected to join the US Embassy in Dhaka on January 12