Category: 3. Middle East

Around 150,000 people gathered at Beirut’s waterfront for mass with Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday morning, the highlight of the Catholic leader’s visit to the capital, where he delivered a message of hope and peace.

The pontiff arrived from Turkey on…

Alon Ohel, who was held hostage for two years in Gaza, said he was intentionally starved and “chained like a monkey” for the vast majority of his captivity but still made a conscious decision to survive.

“Anyone who wasn’t there…

In makeshift homes lacking even the most basic necessities surrounded by piles of rubbish and flanked by dirt roads, thousands of Somalis in Yemen live in soul-crushing poverty in Aden’s “Little Mogadishu”.

Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest…

By Joshua McElwee and Catherine Cartier

BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Pope Leo ends a three-day visit to Lebanon on Tuesday, wrapping up his first overseas trip as Catholic leader, during which he pleaded for peace in the Middle East and warned that…

Raghad al-Fara is struggling to rebuild her teenage life in Athens, not least because she now moves around with crutches because of injuries suffered in the Gaza war.

Evacuated from the besieged Palestinian territory in February she now lives in a…

The UK government has criticised delays in aid being allowed into Gaza after a consignment of more than 1,100 tents it sent to the strip took more than a year to arrive.

The foreign secretary has also raised concerns that other UK-funded aid had…

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Prof. Alon Monsonego says he has discovered a set of immune cells that may hold the secret to prolonging longevity.

“The immune system deteriorates with time, and that process may dictate the pace of…

Saudi Arabia transfers $90 million to PA amid continued Israeli withholding of funds

Saudi Arabia has transferred a $90 million grant to the Palestinian Authority aimed at allowing the cash-strapped Ramallah to continue…

Children scarred by the war in Gaza are undergoing a therapy programme using virtual reality headsets that transport the youngsters to a world far away from the destruction around them.

The VR therapy is aimed at improving the children’s…

A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq’s mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a nearby hidden bunker that they are about to have company.

After calling from a phone dangling from a tree, he leads a team…