Category: 3. Middle East

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Israel’s defence minister has told the military to “seize additional areas in Gaza” and threatened to permanently occupy parts of it, if Hamas does not free all remaining hostages.

Israel Katz said that the military would continue its ground…

When violence broke out in Syria’s coastal area recently, including mass killings of civilians allegedly carried out as revenge for attacks on Syrian security forces, volunteer rescuers quickly came to help.

They were part of the Syrian civil…

Israel’s Supreme Court has issued an injunction to prevent the head of the nation’s security service from being fired by Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israeli cabinet formally approved the early dismissal of Ronen Bar on Thursday night, over the failure…

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake that struck central Iran on Friday should not have damaged nuclear centrifuges in a key atomic energy facility, a source knowledgeable on the matter told The Jerusalem Post.

From October 26, 2024, until around February 2025, Israeli officials exhibited unprecedented and explicit confidence about both their ability and readiness to attack Iran’s nuclear program.

The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen are seeking to show they are not yet defeated by several days of American airstrikes. US President Donald Trump vowed that the Houthi rebels will be “completely annihilated” if they don’t yield.

“The renewed attacks by the usurping Zionist regime on Gaza is a truly large, atrocious crime,” Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei said during his speech to commemorate Nowruz, the start of the Iranian New Year on Thursday.

The President of Syria, Ahmed Shara’a, welcomed Germany’s Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, on March 20, a major milestone for the new Syrian government.