On 1 August 2026, Ethiopian federal and Tigrayan forces clashed in western Tigray, a northern Ethiopian region bordering Eritrea and Sudan. By 3 August, fighting had subsided, but hundreds of ...

A month of contained fighting masks a bigger struggle over Welkait, the bitterly contested territory in western Tigray – with ...

For weeks there had been troubling signs: homes raided by unknown assailants; activists beaten in the street. Then, on March 11th, armed men appeared in Adigrat, a town in Ethiopia’s semi-autonomous ...

The 2022 peace deal ended the war but left key disputes unresolved, giving the TPLF room to regroup as tensions return.

A recent flare-up in tensions in Ethiopia's Tigray, including reports of heavy artillery battles and drone strikes, has raised fears of a return to war in the northern state -- a conflict potentially ...

FILE: Ethiopian soldiers pictured last November at a military camp in the Tigrayan town Dansha where the first shots in the conflict were reputedly fired NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia has threatened to ...

MEKELLE, Ethiopia - The Tigray Defense Forces [TDF] formerly Tigray People's Liberation Front [TPLF] issued tough conditions for the embracement of ceasefire in Ethiopia, just a week after Ethiopia ...

The long-simmering political crisis in Ethiopia’s northernmost region of Tigray escalated violently on Tuesday, after the senior leadership of the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) defied the regional ...

Biete Abba Libanos (House of Abbot Libanos), a rock-cut monolith Orthodox church located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. (via It’s been just over two years since a bloody war broke out in northern Ethiopia’s ...