Category: 3. Middle East

Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country’s judiciary news agency has said.

Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, emerged…

Faced with myriad problems including gridlocked traffic and a sinking earth surface in its current capital, Iran is considering a drastic solution — moving it to an altogether different location on the Gulf of Oman.

Though the idea of moving the…

Once dubbed the capital of the revolution against Bashar al-Assad, Homs saw some of the fiercest fighting in Syria’s civil war. Now, displaced people are returning to their neighbourhoods, only to find them in ruins.

It was in Homs that rebels…

A deadline expired Tuesday for all Israeli troops to leave south Lebanon under a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, hours after Israel said it planned to remain in five strategic locations.

Israeli troops had started withdrawing Monday from some…

Russia told the United States on Tuesday that settling the war in Ukraine required a reorganisation of Europe’s defence agreements, as the superpowers met in Saudi Arabia without Kyiv or the EU.

Moscow has long called for the withdrawal of NATO…

Israeli troops withdrew from all but five points in south Lebanon on Tuesday, allowing displaced residents to return to border villages largely destroyed in more than a year of hostilities.

Lebanon said any Israeli presence on its soil constituted…