In the Darfur town of El-Fasher, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters are allegedly committing war crimes, according to a new report from Amnesty International.
The RSF announced on Tuesday that it would immediately declare a three-month humanitarian truce in response to “international efforts” led by US President Donald Trump, just hours after the release of the report.
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In Khartoum and other parts of Sudan in April 2023, a power struggle between the military and the RSF sparked open fighting in the capital.
Amnesty claimed to have gathered 28 survivors’ testimony to account for atrocities in El-Fasher, including the brutal execution of unarmed men and the rape of girls and women, in its most recent report.
According to Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard, “this persistent, widespread violence against civilians constitutes war crimes and may also constitute other crimes against humanity.”
“Everyone accountable for their actions must be held accountable.”
Since April 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s regular forces have been fighting with the RSF, led by his former right-hand man and ally Mohamed Daglo.
El-Fasher, the last significant city in Darfur’s vast western region that had remained outside their control, was taken by the RSF at the end of October.
El-Fasher has been transformed into a “crime scene,” according to Tom Fletcher, the head of UN aid, last week, and demands that those who commit these crimes “face justice.”
One survivor from El-Fasher who claimed she and her 14-year-old daughter were raped as they fled the city is cited in Tuesday’s Amnesty report.
The woman told the rights group that her daughter passed away in a clinic in Tawila, where she had been a refugee family.
In late October, a survivor who had fled El-Fasher reported seeing shots fired by RSF forces while attempting to flee.
“The RSF was abusing people like flies,” they claimed. A massacre occurred. I have witnessed no armed soldiers being killed.
As both parties attempt to secure military gains before talks are held, mediation has so far failed to put an end to the fighting.
The Quad group of mediators’ proposal for a US truce was referred to as the “worst yet” and unacceptable by Burhan on Sunday. The United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates make up the Quad group. Burhan claimed that the UAE’s presence in the Quad meant that the proposals could not be seen as impartial because of it.
At least nine children and a woman were killed when Pakistani forces bombed a home in the southeast of Afghanistan, according to Afghan authorities.
The attack occurred at midnight (19:30 GMT), according to Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban administration, in the Gurbuz district of Khost province on Tuesday.
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According to Mujahid in a post on X, “The Pakistani invading forces bombed Waliat Khan, son of Qazi Mir,” at the residence of a neighborhood resident.
He continued, “His house was destroyed and nine children, five boys and four girls, and one woman were martyred as a result.”
At least four civilians were hurt in the airstrikes that occurred in the northeastern Kunar and eastern Paktika provinces, according to Mujahid.
On Tuesday, November 25, this is how things are going.
Trump’s strategy
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed that while a proposed peace plan is still being discussed with US President Donald Trump, it still contains “correct” points.
Zelenskyy added that “there must be no missiles, no massive strikes on Ukraine and our people” if negotiations were to end the war.
Trump also made hints about new developments in the Geneva-based talks. Is it actually possible that Russia and Ukraine’s peace talks are progressing significantly? Something positive might be happening, he wrote on Truth Social. “Don’t believe it until you see it.
Despite Kyiv’s claims that the plan conceded too much to Moscow, a senior official told the AFP news agency that the US was pressing Ukraine to accept the deal in Geneva. The official claimed that Ukraine understood this was a possibility and that Washington did not directly threaten to stop aid if Kyiv rejected the deal.
In response to rumors that the Ukrainian leader might travel to the US capital, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that neither Trump nor Zelenskyy will meet this week.
According to Leavitt, there are still “a few points of disagreement” between the US and Ukraine regarding a potential deal to stop Russia’s invasion.
Leavitt also refrained from expressing criticism that Trump is “favored by Russia” in efforts to end Ukraine, despite being “complete and total fallacy,” according to Trump’s Republican Party. She claimed that the US president had faith in the development of a strategy.
Russia would not comment on media reports about such a serious and complex issue, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and would wait to see how the US-Ukraine peace negotiations turn out.
However, Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide for foreign policy, claimed that Moscow was not happy with a European proposal to a US-led 28-point peace plan for Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed there was still work to do to “justify and lasting peace” in Ukraine, but that progress was being made.
Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, acknowledged the accomplishments made at the Geneva summit but stressed that important issues still need to be resolved.
No deal involving Ukraine, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, should not be allowed to tarnish Poland’s and Europe’s security, but rather strengthen it.
Johann Wadephul, the German foreign minister, described the Geneva discussions as “decisive success” for Europeans in amending Trump’s 28-point plan to end the war with Russia. According to Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, Ukraine’s borders cannot be changed by force or its military can’t be subjected to restrictions that would entice further Russian aggression.
In a phone call, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in his statement that Ankara would support any diplomatic efforts to bring Russia and Ukraine into direct contact and achieve “just and lasting” peace.
Fighting
As the Ukrainian air force issued a warning about missile attacks across the country on Tuesday, powerful explosions shook the country’s capital, Kyiv.
The day after a Ukrainian attack on a power plant shut off heating in a town near the capital, Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that the country’s air defenses shot down 10 drones on their way to Moscow. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, reported that emergency services were clearing up locations where drone-debris had fallen.
A total of 50 Ukrainian drones were shot down across Crimea, Bryansk, Kaluga, and Kursk regions, according to the Defense Ministry, and over the waters of the Black Sea.
Politics
A third Ukrainian man is being sought by Polish authorities as a result of his arrest and charge. Another two Ukrainians who had fled to Belarus had already been charged absently with the blast on the Warsaw-Lublin border’s Ukrainian border.
Energy
According to Reuters news agency, Russia’s Black Sea port of Tuapse resumed exporting crude oil last week following a two-week suspension due to Ukrainian drone attacks, while the local oil refinery resumed processing crude, citing industry sources and data.
In response to their alleged support for the Palestinian group Hamas, US President Donald Trump has ordered his aides to launch a search for “terrorist” organizations in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Trump signed the decree on Monday as Washington continued to impose sanctions on Israel’s allies in the region.
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In the decree, Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Jordan were accused of supporting Hamas and the Lebanese branch of the organization by offering “material support” to Hamas and Hezbollah in their conflict with Israel.
During Israel’s conflict with Gaza, it was also claimed that a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood “called for violent attacks against American partners and interests.” However, it wasn’t immediately clear what the White House was talking about. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has been outlawed and largely driven underground.
The White House stated that “President Trump is confronting the Muslim Brotherhood’s transnational network,” which contributes to US-sponsored terrorism and destabilization efforts.
The secretary of state and the secretary of state are required to consult with the US intelligence chief within 30 days and prepare a report on the appointment in Trump’s order.
Within 45 days of the report, the Muslim Brotherhood branches would be officially labeled as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
The designation may be made sooner, but the procedure is typically formal. Additionally, the decree allows for the blacklisting of additional Muslim Brotherhood branches.
The White House is also pushing for the designation of the organizations as “designated global terrorists.”
It would be unlawful to give the group material support as a result of the designations. Additionally, it would primarily prevent their current and former members from entering the US and would stifle their revenue sources due to economic sanctions.
a steadfast need for right-wing activists
The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 by the scholar Hassan al-Banna from Egypt, has branches in the Middle East through political parties and social organizations.
Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated parties claim to be committed to peaceful political participation in elections across the Middle East.
However, several nations in the area have outlawed the group.
Right-wing activists in the US have long demanded that right-wing activists blacklist the Muslim Brotherhood.
However, critics claim that the move will increase authoritarianism and the Middle East’s stricter restrictions on free political expression.
On the basis of allegations of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood or contributions to organizations connected to the organization, the decree could also be used to target activists in Muslim America.
With false accusations of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, right-wing organizations have long advocated for the overthrow of Muslim American organizations.
The designation shouldn’t have an impact on Muslim American organizations and organizations, according to Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Awad told Al Jazeera, “The American Muslim organizations are strong. They have a US presence, they claim. Millions of people are served by the relief organizations abroad. I’m hoping that their work is not affected by this.
He noted that anti-Muslim activists have been attempting to “prove the myth that every US Muslim organization serves as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR were recently referred to as “foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations” by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Despite the ceasefire, Israeli forces continued to fire on neighborhoods across Gaza, killing at least four Palestinians, and injuring several more, according to hospital officials who spoke to Al Jazeera.
A Palestinian man was killed on Monday in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, in an area that extends beyond the so-called “yellow line,” the Israeli military-imposed boundary that Israel uses to mark areas under its military control.
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Israeli attacks continued throughout the day, according to Al Jazeera’s ground-based teams, with reports of air raids, artillery, and helicopter strikes in both northern and southern Gaza.
Israeli fire raged near the yellow line in Beit Lahiya. Northeast of Rafah and the Khan Younis borderline were targeted by tanks and helicopters in the south.
According to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, a journalist from Gaza City, “extensive Israeli attacks beyond the yellow line have caused Gaza’s eastern neighbourhoods to be systematically destroyed.”
He continued, “A systematic attempt to destroy Gaza’s neighbourhoods and create buffer zones, making these areas completely uninhabitable, which complicates a return for families.”
According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, civil defense teams working with police and the Red Cross recovered the bodies of eight members of a single family from the rubble of their camp in central Gaza, which was damaged by an earlier Israeli attack.
Palestinian man stands among the remnants of destroyed buildings in Gaza City.
More than 9,500 Palestinians are still missing beneath the ruins of bombed-out districts, according to the Gaza Government Media Office, who reported that the number of bodies recovered since the ceasefire had now reached 582.
Meanwhile, Hamas’s armed wing announced that the Israeli prisoner’s body had been recovered from the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
In the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, two captives’ bodies must still be recovered. Hassan said efforts to locate the remaining bodies have been hampered by the widespread destruction.
The GHF, a US-backed organization that operated in parallel with UN aid organizations, announced on Monday that its activities in Gaza were over.
The organization cited provisions from the ceasefire from October as the cause of its withdrawal.
Since May 2025, according to UN experts, at least 859 Palestinians have died in the vicinity of GHF distribution points, with Israeli forces and foreign contractors frequently opening fire on crowds desperate for food.
The scheme’s failure to use established humanitarian channels was widely condemned.
Israeli attacks on the West Bank
Israeli forces increased their raids overnight across the occupied West Bank, arresting at least 16 Palestinians, according to Wafa. In Iktaba near Tulkarem, in Tuqu southeast of Bethlehem, in Kobar near Ramallah, and in Silat al-Harithiya west of Jenin, arrests were reported.
Residents of Tubas and the surrounding areas were also taken into custody by Israeli troops.
Baraa Khairi Ali Maali, a 20-year-old law student, was killed by Israeli forces in Deir Jarir, north of Ramallah, on Sunday night, in a violent incident.
According to Wafa, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes on the village’s outskirts, sparking altercations. The village’s head of the community, Fathi Hamdan, claimed soldiers stormed the area to appease the settlers before firing on Palestinians who were confronting them.
In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, mourners chant “Ramadan Abed/Reuters” next to the body of one of the two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire.
Maali passed away shortly after arriving at the hospital from a gunshot wound to the chest. His murder comes after settlers fatally shot another young man in Deir Jarir earlier this month.
In another West Bank raid, Israeli soldiers injured two Palestinian women and detained two brothers in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.
Settler attacks continued, too. Between Atara and Birzeit, north of Ramallah, fires erupted on agricultural land, destroying farmland owned by residents.
In a separate incident, locals from a newly established outpost threw out farming equipment and torched olive trees in Atara.
Since October 7, 2023, at least 1, 081 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces and settlers, including 223 children, in addition to more than 10, 614 were hurt, and more than 20, 500 have been detained. In addition, more than 10, 614 have been injured, and more than 20, 500 have been detained.
Israeli violations of the Lebanon ceasefire
Hezbollah held a funeral for senior commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai, who was killed by Israel on Sunday in Lebanon.
Hezbollah flags lined the streets as mourners carried his coffin, wrapped in yellow and green, from Beirut’s southern suburbs. The organization has not yet made its response known.
The killing was described as “yet another ceasefire violation” by Mahmoud Qmati, the vice president of Hezbollah’s political council, while denying that Israel had “given the green light” to escalate the conflict.
Hezbollah is weighing its options carefully, according to security analyst Ali Rizk, who noted that it is unlikely to “give Netanyahu an excuse to launch an all-out war against Lebanon,” which he claimed could be more devastating than the current limited exchanges.
As they attend the funeral procession of Haytham Ali Tabatabai, the head of Hezbollah’s top of the line, and two other Hezbollah members who were killed in the Israeli airstrike in a southern Beirut on Sunday, Hezbollah fighters raise their group’s flags and chant slogans.
According to geopolitical analyst Joe Macaron, the US is no longer “restraining Israel” but is supporting Israeli operations in Syria, Gaza, and Lebanon.
Hezbollah is confronted by Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, who reported from Beirut. Retaliation could face a significant Israeli assault, but inaction could erode its deterrence, according to Zeina Khodr, who reports from Beirut.
Any Hezbollah response, according to Imad Salamey of the Lebanese American University, could result in “severe” Israeli responses.
He added that the right-wing Israeli government is “eager to escalate because escalation will serve that government staying in power.”
Everton won their first Premier League game against Manchester United in almost 12 years after Idrissa Gueye was sent off for slapping his own teammate Michael Keane.
The visitors won 1-0 thanks to Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s outstanding opening goal on Monday, which a furious Gueye was sent off after he and Keane squared off.
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With a win, United could have moved up to fifth place in the Premier League game against United at Old Trafford after winning it five games in a row.
They had the best chance of holding on to the hosts’ possession, especially in the second half, but Everton brilliantly defended them from the visitors, who appeared slack in attack.
With 10 minutes left, Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford made several excellent saves to keep his team in control, with the winner being Joshua Zirkzee’s header.
Everton moved into 11th place on 18 points with United, who are above them on goal difference, thanks to a second away win of the season.
Seamus Coleman’s injury dealt Everton a major blow in the tenth minute.
Three minutes later, a barely believable fling between Gueye and Keane was revealed.
The Premier League Match Center stated on X: “Gueye was shown a red card for violent conduct by the referee, and the outcome was deemed to be a clear strike on Keane’s face.”
Gueye is the first Premier League player to receive a red card since 2008 after engaging in combat with a teammate.
Michael Keane gets a red card from Adam Vaughan/EPA when Idrissa Gueye slaps him in the face.
United lacked the momentum to take advantage of their numerical advantage, defeating David Moyes’s formidable opposition team.
Instead, Everton, a 10-man side, found the net and took the lead with a superb strike from Dewsbury-Hall in the 29th minute.
After Bruno Fernandes and Leny Yoro beat each other, Dewsbury-Hall blasted the ball into the top corner and headed toward the goal.
For the remainder of the half, United huffed and puffed, with Pickford edging a Fernandes cross from distance as half-time approached.
At half-time, Ruben Amorim replaced Noussair Mazraoui for Mason Mount, but despite dominating possession, his team made little progress despite taking the field.
In the 58th minute, Amorim added Kobbie Mainoo and Diogo Dalot for Casemiro and Yoro, but United still looked unimpressed.
With just over 10 minutes left, Pickford stayed on top and won the famous match.
Dewsbury-Hall referred to the game as a “rollercoaster” of a game afterward.
“I’m so genuinely pleased for the young people and how hard they worked.” He praised his outstanding efforts to persevere, accomplish a goal, and maintain that spirit. “So happy we received the three points,”
He claimed Gueye expressed regret to the team at the end of the game for the confrontation with Keane.
We leave now,” the statement read. We had an incredible response. Top tier, according to Dewsbury-Hall.
“We could have crumbled, but it made us grow,” the statement goes.
After a strong start, United defender Matthijs de Ligt called the outcome and performance a “step back” for his side.
The Dutch defender claimed that the game suffices when played against 10 men for 70 minutes without creating many chances. “We had a bad night today,” he said.
We crossed many balls and had no patience to play along the lines. There must be much more.
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