Category: 3. Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked former navy commander Eli Sharvit to head the domestic security agency, his office said Monday, despite the supreme court freezing the incumbent’s dismissal.

Netanyahu moved to oust current Shin Bet…

The Red Cross is “outraged at the deaths of eight medics from Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), killed on duty in Gaza,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Sunday night.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the US would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat of bombing if the country does not reach a new nuclear deal with Washington.

Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey’s bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination – one of hundreds of political killings at the height of the conflict.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza.

The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on…

Syria’s new government, dominated by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s inner circle, faces the daunting challenge of gaining the trust of Syrians, as well as that of Western countries to secure sanctions relief.

The transitional 23-member…

On Friday morning, soon after two rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz did what he has done so often since taking over from Yoav Gallant last November: Issued threats.

It’s been several weeks since US President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran giving it two months to arrive with him to a nuclear deal or it would likely face military force.

“May Allah damn Zionist Israel,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in a speech at the Eid al-Fitr prayer on Sunday, according to Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu.