How strong is Hamas two years after October 7 attacks?
DW reporters
The military leadership of Hamas has been decimated, and it is unclear how many fighters the group still has. Still, it remains able to conduct guerrilla attacks.
Two years after Israel began its military campaign against the Gaza-based militant group began, observers say Hamas is down but not out. That is despite the Israeli military's vastly superior firepower and weapons, and Israeli leaders' insistence on "total victory."
"Hamas has seen a lot of military setbacks, but it still has the ability to regroup and also retains command and control," Marina Miron, a researcher in the War Studies Department at King's College in London, told DW.
Before this current round of fighting began in the Palestinian territory — preceded by the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks in Israel that resulted in nearly 1,200 deaths — the militant group was estimated to have had between 25,000 and 30,000 fighters. Over the past two years, various Israeli security sources say they have killed between 17,000 and 23,000 of those.
Zelenskyy accuses west of ‘zero real reaction’ to Russia’s bombardment
Six people killed and 18 injured in heavy drone and missile attacks across Ukraine early on Sunday
Sun 5 Oct 2025 12.20 BST
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the west of “zero real reaction” to Russia’s escalating bombing campaign against Ukraine, after a massive attack on Sunday killed six people and injured 18.
The western city of Lviv, normally considered one of the safest in the country, suffered its most sustained and serious bombardment since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
Trump's CrusadersChristian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington
By Jörg Schindler in Washington, D.C., and Moscow, Idaho
Sunday morning in Washington. Long before services begin, around 150 people begin crowding into the first floor of a crimson-colored residential building on Pennsylvania Avenue, not even a 10-minute walk from the U.S. Capitol.
Christ Church D.C., the evangelical church being inaugurated on this very day, is extremely close to the centers of power. Which is why it’s not all that surprising when Pete Hegseth, his family and his secret service detail suddenly join the faithful.
Morocco sees eighth straight day of protests organised by online Gen Z group
Members of Moroccan online youth collective GenZ 212 protested for the eighth consecutive day on Saturday, demanding better public health and education services. The online group, which has more than 180,000 members on Discord, insists on the nonviolent nature of its protests, and the gatherings since then have been largely peaceful.
Members of a Moroccan online youth collective protested for the eighth consecutive day on Saturday, demanding better public health and education services.
The demonstrations in the usually stable North African kingdom have bucked the perception of young Moroccans as being politically disengaged, and have been organised since last Saturday by GenZ 212, a group active on the web platform Discord.
India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighborhood
New Delhi's strategic dilemma: Navigating regional instability from Nepal to Myanmar
Although instability is endemic to South and Southeast Asia, it is becoming increasingly dangerous both for India’s neighbors and India itself.
This was reflected most recently in the violent unrest in Nepal. But that crisis is hardly an isolated case. In Bangladesh, directly to India’s east, the same tensions that led to the overthrow of the government in 2024 remain unresolved. And to the southeast, Thailand is reeling from the court-ordered removal of its prime minister and a series of recent border clashes with Cambodia.
Everything you need to know about Syria’s first post-Assad elections
Syria will select the People’s Assembly on Sunday in the country’s first elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December.
The elections are a historic moment after more than 50 years of dynastic, oppressive al-Assad rule and are another test for the new government, led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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