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Militia forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government declare victory against the Houthis in Taiz, after months of tank battles and air strikes. Yiming Woo reports.
An alliance of Islamist insurgents, including al-Qaeda's wing in Syria, captures the northwestern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour for the first time in the four-year-old conflict. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Islamic State fighters insurgents seized control of most of a town in western Iraq, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are stationed.
The United Nations warns that it has only received 12 percent of the $2.7 billion being sought for war-wracked Sudan, adding that "famine is closing in". "This is not just an underfunded appeal" says Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), "It is a catastrophically underfunded appeal". Tens of thousands of people have died and millions have been displaced in Sudan since war broke out in April 2023 between the country's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). SOUNDBITE
French, German Foreign Ministers and top EU officials are gathering in Paris for an international conference on Sudan. France is hosting the conference and seeking contributions from the international community, exactly a year after war broke out in the northeast African country, leading to a humanitarian and political crisis. IMAGES
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