Category: 3. Middle East

The man who carried out a deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue made an emergency call to police during the rampage to “pledge allegiance” to the Islamic State group, UK counter terrorism police revealed Wednesday.

The attacker,…

PARIS — Iran released a 19-year-old French-German dual citizen days after throwing out spying charges against him, the French foreign minister told AFP on Wednesday.

“Lennart Monterlos is free,” said Jean-Noel Barrot, with sources…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that he was hopeful his meeting last month with US President Donald Trump would help lift sanctions blocking Turkey’s purchase of F-35 jets, and also help resolve a legal case against state…

The Shin Bet recently foiled an attempt by Iran to smuggle large amounts of advanced weapons to terror operatives in the West Bank to be used in attacks on Israeli targets, the security agency revealed on Wednesday.

The recently seized…

The family of Bipin Joshi, a Nepali agricultural student taken hostage by Hamas, was due on Wednesday to release a video of him that was filmed shortly after he was abducted in the October 7, 2023, attack.

The video, which was recovered by…

Scientist Omar Yaghi was one of three winners of the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize, the first Nobel laureate of Palestinian descent since PLO leader Yasser Arafat won the prize in 1994.

Yaghi shared the award with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard…

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On October 7, 2023,…