Category: 3. Middle East

A French-British investigation into alleged bribery at France-based defence giant Thales is examining a contract with Indonesia, an AFP investigation has showed.

In November last year, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said it had launched a…

(Reuters) -Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Thursday that the group had “a legitimate right to resist (Israeli) occupation”, adding that the group would support the Lebanese army.

Hezbollah also said that, while Lebanon was bound by a ceasefire, it…

BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its November 11 election.

Though he no longer holds…

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski revealed in clips of an interview aired on Wednesday that Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him captive in Gaza repeatedly sexually assaulted and tortured him.

Braslavski, who was freed last month…

VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw material for heroin collapsed in 2023 after the…