Archives for October, 2025

Turkey, Syria hold high-level security summit as SDF integration talks ramp up

The summit comes as Turkey and Syria coordinate over the future of the Kurdish-led SDF, amid US mediation efforts to meet the year-end integration deadline with Damascus.

FILE PHOTO: Saad Hussain Rizvi, chief of Islamist political party Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), gestures to his supporters after being released from jail in Lahore, Pakistan, November 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/File Photo

Clashes in an anti-Israel rally in Pakistan kill five, police say

Reuters

A man blows a shofar as relatives and friends of Israeli hostage Alon Ohel, held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, react as they watch broadcasts related to his release as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Lavon, Israel October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Rami Shlush

For freed Israeli hostage musician, a piano waits to be played again

Reuters

A man sits next to trucks parked at the Torkham border crossing, after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan, following exchanges of fire between the forces of the two countries, in Torkham, Pakistan, October 12, 2025. REUTERS/Shahid Shinwari

Explainer-Afghanistan-Pakistan is the latest conflict Trump wants to solve. Why has it erupted?

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a press conference after addressing the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

Russia's Lavrov says Trump's plan is too vague on Palestinian statehood

Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks after a press conference, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/Pool

Netanyahu to attend Gaza war summit in Egypt

Reuters

Trucks stand parked at the Torkham border crossing, after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan, following exchanges of fire between the forces of the two countries, in Torkham, Pakistan, October 12, 2025. REUTERS/Shahid Shinwari

China is very concerned about Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes, foreign ministry says

Reuters

A screen displays an image of Nobel Prize medal, ahead of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Tom Little

Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win 2025 Nobel economics prize

Reuters

People walk past parked vehicles with belongings of Afghan citizens, as they head back to their country, after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan, following exchanges of fire between the forces of the two countries in Chaman, the Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan October 12, 2025. REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai

Pakistani troops on high alert on Afghan border after fighting, trade halts

Reuters

Palestinian women walk near rubble after a ceasefire, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 9. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

Trump suggests Hamas has approval for internal security operations in Gaza

Reuters

Hamas militants keep guard as Red Cross vehicles transport hostages, held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, following their handover as part of a ceasefire and hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Hamas deploys fighters as hostages released, in show of strength

Reuters

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the members of the media, after arriving by plane to attend the Gaza Peace Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. Yoan Valat/Pool via REUTERS

France's Macron says he will continue to serve, ignores calls for resignation

Reuters

Mazloum Abdi's SDF played a vital role in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria

Syrian Kurdish leader says reached first deal on merging forces with regular army

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of a China Coast Guard ship navigating near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, in the South China Sea, August 13, 2025. REUTERS/Adrian Portugal/File Photo

China tells the Philippines to stop 'provocations' after South China Sea vessel clash

Reuters

Bar Kuperstein was among the released Israeli hostages

Freed Israeli hostages hug loved ones in tears of joy

Agence France-Presse

People hold placards with pictures of hostages who were kidnapped in the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect, at "Hostages square" in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2025. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Hamas publishes names of 20 Israeli hostages to be released

Reuters