Migrants streaming across the Balkans reached Slovenia on Saturday, diverted overnight by the closure of Hungary’s border with Croatia in the latest demonstration of Europe’s disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its borders. Hungary’s right-wing government declared its southern frontier with Croatia off limits to migrants, blocking entry[…]
South Korea fired tens of artillery rounds toward North Korea on Thursday after the North launched shells to protest South Korea’s anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along the border, as tension escalated on the peninsula. North Korea did not return fire but later warned Seoul in a letter that it would take[…]
Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip, allowing Palestinians to travel in both directions for the first time in two months. The border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world with no Israeli control, opened on Monday for four days. Palestinian border official Khaled[…]
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that a strike force had arrived on the border with Yemen. It happened as Yemen’s Houthi militia and the Saudi-led coalition forces traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas on Monday, residents said, on the eve of a five-day humanitarian truce. The Houthis[…]
The Syrian government has accused Turkey of allowing “terrorists” to freely cross the border after Ankara said the common-law wife of one of the Paris attackers entered Syria from Turkey earlier this month. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that the woman, Hayat Boumedienne, arrived in Turkey from Madrid[…]
A woman was arrested at the Beit Bridge border post when mining explosives were allegedly found in her bag on Monday, the SA Revenue Service said. Customs official conducted a random check of baggage in a bus crossing into South Africa from Zimbabwe, spokeswoman Marika Muller said in a statement.[…]
Unidentified gunmen have killed three Turkish soldiers on the Syria-Turkey border in Sanliurfa province, Turkish media said. The governor of Sanliurfa told the semi-official Anatolia news agency that the soldiers on guard duty on the border in Ceylanpinar district were shot dead early on Tuesday. Izzettin Kucuk said it was[…]
A suicide blast close to the Pakistan-India border has killed at least 55 people and left more than 150 wounded, police have told Al Jazeera. The explosion took place at the Wagah border crossing near Lahore. It happened at the end of a daily flag-lowering ceremony as people were moving[…]
Israel has closed two border crossings with Gaza, the army said on Sunday, after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave struck its territory. “The crossing points for people and goods, Erez and Kerem Shalom, have been closed until further notice except for humanitarian aid,” an army spokeswoman said. She[…]
Palestinian factions are getting closer to reopening the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian territories, following an agreement last Thursday between rivals Hamas and Fatah to hand over control of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian unity government. Informed Palestinian sources told media that pportunities for reaching an[…]
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