Category: 3. Middle East

Americans for the first time sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis in their conflict, according to a Gallup poll released Friday, indicating a sea change in the public views of Israel’s key ally.

Views on the Middle East divide…

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog issued a confidential report on Friday urging Iran to let it inspect all its nuclear sites and pointing at Isfahan as a place of interest because of a new enrichment plant and…

The High Court of Justice on Friday temporarily blocked the government from shuttering the Gaza operations of dozens of aid organizations that petitioned the court in a dispute over new Israeli rules requiring them to name Palestinian…

Danish container shipping giant Maersk said on Friday that it will temporarily reroute some of its vessels away from the Suez Canal in response to “unforeseen constraints” in the Red Sea region. The move comes amid the growing possibility of…

JERUSALEM, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Israel’s Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the government from shuttering the Gaza operations of dozens of aid organizations which petitioned the court in a dispute over new Israeli rules requiring them to…

Under the shadow of a possible war between the United States and Iran, Israelis expressed weariness at the prospect of strikes on their country but said they were ever-prepared for a regional flare-up.

“The threat of war is, for us, a kind of…

By Ariba Shahid

KARACHI, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Weeks after the Taliban’s lightning offensive in 2021 wrested control of Afghanistan from a U.S.-led military coalition,Pakistan’s then intelligence chief flew into the capital Kabul for talks, where the…

In the Iraqi mountains near Iran, an exiled Kurdish Iranian commander told AFP that whether or not the US launches strikes on Iran, he will still seek regime change in order to win self-determination for the Kurds.

Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan…