Category: 3. Middle East

With less than a month to go until the European Broadcasting Union makes a final decision on Israel’s participation in next year’s Eurovision, host Austria has been pushing publicly and behind the scenes for the Jewish state to be…

Syrian authorities have temporarily closed the national museum in Damascus and launched an investigation after thieves made off with several pieces, an official told AFP on Wednesday.

The robbery took place overnight Sunday to Monday in the…

Ancient statues and other artefacts have been stolen from Syria’s National Museum in Damascus, officials say.

The theft was discovered on Monday, when staff reportedly found that one of the museum’s doors had been broken from the inside.

The six…

Israel reopened the Zikim border crossing border for the entry of humanitarian aid into the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, two months after it was closed during an Israel Defense Forces operation to capture Gaza City.

The Defense…

When engineer Tarek Mazraani started campaigning for the reconstruction of war-battered southern Lebanon, Israeli drones hovered ominously overhead — their loudspeakers sometimes calling him out by name.

Despite a ceasefire struck last November…

A Danish court put two Swedish teenagers on trial on terrorism charges for having thrown two hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen last year.

The two men, aged 18 and 21, have also been charged with aggravated assault and attempted…

US President Donald Trump said he had an “obligation” to sue the BBC over a misleading edit of a speech he gave, but stopped short of announcing legal action in a Fox News interview aired on Tuesday.

Trump’s lawyers threatened the…

(Reuters) -Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the decision was denounced by the station’s chief…