Category: 3. Middle East

Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the tropical South Pacific to cover their tracks, an AFP analysis of sanctions data has revealed.

Nestled next to a pizza shop…

More than 120,000 people are expected to attend Pope Leo XIV’s mass in Beirut on Tuesday, the final day of his Lebanon visit and a chance to pay his respects at the site of the huge 2020 port explosion.

The pontiff arrived from Turkey on Sunday on…

Some of television’s biggest names and creators will converge on the capital this weekend for the inaugural Jerusalem Sessions, a summit bringing together global entertainment leaders.

“Mad Men” and “The Sopranos” creator Matthew…

The United States has meddled for decades in elections around the world. But no modern president has done so as brazenly as Donald Trump.

Forget shady CIA-hatched plots or surreptitious media campaigns. Trump has openly called on other countries’…

A former commander of the Israeli Air Force warned Monday that Israel will face threats in the coming years that are more severe than what it experienced during and since the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

Speaking at a…

Dec 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of sustainment for F-16 jets and related equipment to Bahrain for an estimated cost of $455 million, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The principal contractors for the sale…

US President Donald Trump told Israel on Monday to avoid destabilizing Syria and its new leadership, days after a deadly operation by Israeli forces killed 13 people.

Trump spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and invited him for…

The family of Ran Gvili, one of the two remaining deceased hostages held in Gaza, said Monday that the weekly Saturday night support rallies that have been held for two years at Hostages Square will end, as they pivot to pre-Sabbath…