Category: 3. Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s capital market watchdog said Monday it would allow foreign investment in listed Saudi firms that own real estate within Islam’s two holiest cities of Mecca and Medina as the Gulf country continues to diversify its economy to…

Israel’s national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers of the Holocaust.

Timed to coincide with…

An unending stream of people marched up the coast of Gaza on Monday, carrying their belongings in plastic bags and repurposed flour sacks through the central city of Nuseirat after Israel reopened access to the territory’s north.

Thousands walked…

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she expected the bloc to agree Monday to begin easing sanctions on Syria after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.

“It is a step for step approach,” Kallas said at the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers…

Palestinians began arriving back in Gaza City early Monday, as Israeli forces opened checkpoints and allowed people back into northern areas that had been closed off since the early days of Israel’s war against Hamas.

Thousands of people,…

Thousands of Palestinians are returning to north Gaza after Israel and Hamas reached a deal to free six hostages this week.

The Palestinians were due to return over the weekend, but were held up by a row over an Israeli hostage held by Hamas,…

Wafa Mustafa had long dreamed of returning to Syria but the absence of her father tarnished her homecoming more than a decade after he disappeared in Bashar al-Assad’s jails.

Her father Ali, an activist, is among the tens of thousands killed or…