Armed Conflict

Yemen's Houthi rebels are proving they are a threat that won't go away easily, continuously warning to escalate attacks against Israel and Red Sea shipping if the Gaza ceasefire collapses.  

Major Russian oil refinery and microchip factory hit in drone attack, says Ukraine 

Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag will be the next hostages to be freed by Hamas.

2024 shook the world in more ways than one. From politics to pop culture, climate to conflict, 2024 was a year of tumbling records — but not always for the best reasons. 

The Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has been in Ukraine where she announced the re-opening of Australia's embassy in Kyiv.

As director of relief, Roger Hearn was responsible for organising the distribution of food from aid trucks coming in through the border. But what depressed him the most was being unable to bring in enough food to help feed Gaza's 1.9 million internally displaced people.

Before leaving the White House in January, President Joe Biden will provide Ukraine with military aid to bolster the government in Kyiv in its war with Russia.

From 2019–2023, these Palestinians filmed what was happening in their West Bank village. Those thousands of hours of footage have been turned into a new documentary that is gathering Oscar's buzz.

Russia is carrying out record mass drone attacks on Ukraine, and experts say its new foam decoys and thermobaric warheads were making them more devastating and difficult to defend against. 

With evidence of war crimes emerging from occupied areas of Ukraine throughout Russia's full-scale invasion, there are fears for the fate of civilians if Trump-negotiated peace talks involve ceding territory.  

The US makes a second major shift in weapons support for Ukraine, agreeing to provide anti-personnel landmines, days after approving Western-made longer-range missile strikes in Russia.  

With the world "on the brink of a potential nuclear war", scientists are trying to work out just how bad it would be.

Since its deployment in 2011, the Iron Dome has become a signature weapon in Israel’s armoury. A barrage of modern weaponry from Iran and its proxies is testing its limits.

An Associated Press photographer captures a rare glimpse of what appears to be a powerful Israeli smart bomb mid-air, before it flattened a multi-storey building in a neighbourhood in southern Beirut.

Ukraine releases a video, allegedly taken by a Russian soldier, showing North Koreans collecting Russian military uniforms and equipment.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy pitched his plan for ending the war with Russia to NATO, but with Russia making gains in the east and a US election looming, peace in 2025 may not play out to Ukraine's plans. 

The Pentagon is bolstering Israel's air defences with a THAAD system to specifically target Iran's ballistic missile attacks, and 100 US troops to operate it.

The few people remaining in Lebanon's south make the same dire prediction about Israel's bombardment and ground offensive against the militant group Hezbollah.

Lebanese firefighters and paramedics claim they have been fired upon, or warned by the Israeli military not to rescue people or put out fires caused by bombing.

About 1.2 million people have been forced from their homes by Israel's bombardment and invasion, the Lebanese government says. They fill the public spaces around Beirut – footpaths, squares, churchyards and schools.