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Israeli troops have been pulling out of the Palestinian city of Jenin following one of their biggest West Bank operations in years. Convoys of military vehicles were seen leaving less than 48 hours after the offensive started. Despite the withdrawal, explosions could still be heard amid unconfirmed reports of a gunfight near a hospital. At

At least seven casualties have been reported in what is believed to be a car-ramming and stabbing attack by Palestinians in Israel. There was at least one stabbing victim and a suspected attacker had been “neutralised” by first responders in the attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, a medical official said. Tel Aviv’s police chief

One of the teenagers in the middle of the rioting in Paris has warned that violence could return at any moment. The 17-year-old, who joined the disorder on two consecutive nights last week, agreed to meet us on a side street in a Paris suburb. He told Sky News that if the police were involved

The police chief in a French town reeling from an attack on its mayor’s home has told Sky News his officers are involved in “a war” against rioters “who are there to kill us”. Eric Vergne has led the response to an attack that has shocked the French nation. A burning car was driven into

The grandmother of the French teenager shot by police has called for rioters to “stop” and says her “heart is in pain”. Nadia said rioters were using the death of her 17-year-old grandson Nahel Merzouk, who was shot by police during a traffic stop on Tuesday, as “an excuse”. She told French broadcaster BFM TV:

Franc Attali lost 100,000 euros (£86,000) in a night, his shop one of dozens in Marseille broken into by rioters. “The store was full of merchandise, now it’s completely empty,” he says as he shows me around. Be Weep is usually full of clothes and shoes. Now, the glass shelves have been stripped completely clean

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine remains a “serious threat”. Citing Ukrainian intelligence, the country’s president said Russia was “technically ready” to provoke a localised explosion at the facility. Throughout the war nuclear experts have repeatedly raised concerns about the safety of the plant, which Russia

President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a state visit to Germany due to the ongoing protests and riots across France. More than 1,300 people have been arrested after a fourth night of violent protests throughout the country following the death of 17-year-old boy Nahel Merzouk, who was shot by police during a traffic stop in a

In October last year, Tetiana Bodak was away from her home in southern Ukraine attending her mother’s funeral. While she was out, armed Russian men in balaclavas arrived and ordered her 17-year-old son Vlad Rudenko to go with them. He at first refused but realised he had little choice. “They had weapons with them. And

There are the three things that have come to illuminate the night sky in Nanterre – blue lights, orange flames and the starburst of fireworks. For the first couple of nights, it was the fireworks and flames that seemed to dominate here. The police, already wildly unpopular among many in the district, were outnumbered, pelted

France is set to deploy 40,000 officers on Thursday evening amid fears of a third night of rioting in the capital triggered by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy. Bus and tram services are also set to shut down early so they are not “targets for thugs and vandals”, a Paris region official

Protests and riots over the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Paris have continued for a second night – and spread to other cities in France. The suburb of Nanterre, where the 17-year-old delivery driver was killed following a traffic stop, saw another night of violence on Wednesday as police fired tear gas and protesters

There have been violent clashes between police and groups of youths in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after a teenager was apparently shot dead by an officer during a traffic stop. According to his family’s lawyers the 17-year-old delivery driver, named as Nael M, died at the scene. The police officer has been detained on

Ukrainian forces have “highly likely” recaptured an area of territory occupied by Russia since 2014, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said. In a new intelligence update, British officials said small advances have been made east from Krasnohorivka near Donetsk, which sits on the old Line of Control. “Recent multiple concurrent Ukrainian assaults throughout the

More than 130 videos of the Wagner march on Moscow have been verified and reviewed by Sky News and the Centre for Information Resilience, making Saturday’s incident one of the most publicly documented of the Ukraine conflict. “Not since the opening days of Russia’s full-scale invasion have our investigators at the Centre for Information Resilience

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said the long-standing tensions between the Russian army and Wagner mercenary group, which staged a 24-hour mutiny at the weekend, had been mismanaged. In his first public remarks since he brokered a deal between the Kremlin and Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, which halted the group’s advance on Moscow, Mr Lukashenko

Vladimir Putin has warned “any blackmail is doomed to failure” – days after an attempted rebellion led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Russian president – speaking to the nation from the Kremlin on Monday night – made the comments as he vowed that those who had advocated for the weekend’s “criminal activity” would be

The dust is settling. The damage is deep. And the question remains, especially in the absence of any clear direction from Vladimir Putin – what happens next? Expect the Kremlin to deliver a bit more of the “business as usual”, “nothing to see here” Putin diary appointment videos. Russia-Ukraine latest: Wagner boss Prigozhin’s whereabouts unknown

For a capital facing such potentially intense political convulsions, Moscow basked in a sun-drenched Sunday calm. Red Square was closed as a precautionary anti-terror measure. A tourist asked us plaintively why he couldn’t walk across and seemed taken aback by the reference to terrorism. Without access to Russian telegram, and which tourist watches state TV,

Ukraine is in a strong battlefield position against invading Russian forces but the exile of a rebel mercenary leader to neighbouring Belarus poses a fresh potential threat, a former British Army chief has told Sky News. While Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been “wounded” by the short-lived rebellion and his frontline troops are demoralised, Lord