Category: 3. Middle East

By Joshua McElwee

ISTANBUL, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Pope Leo visited Istanbul’s famed Blue Mosque on Saturday, removing his shoes in a sign of respect but not appearing to pray in his first visit as leader of the Catholic Church to a Muslim place of…

JTA — Earlier this week, several pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups in North Carolina touted the state pension fund’s sale of $6.7 million in Israeli government bonds as a “victory.”

But despite the groups’ claims, the North…

JTA — A Palestinian restaurant in New York City has named its new location “Hinds Hall” after the moniker anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a campus building they occupied last spring.

In a post on…

Deep in a rugged valley of southern Lebanon, a cave complex offers a small picture of the subterranean infrastructure Hezbollah relied on near the Israeli border, along with the difficult task the country’s army faces as it seeks to…

With a pot of glue, a blade and a keen eye, Manal al-Saadani repairs tattered banknotes — a necessity in the Gaza Strip, where the cash in circulation is wearing out.

For every revived note she gives back to a customer, they give her a few coins…

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Friday that all documents signed by autopen under Joe Biden were “terminated,” in a legally uncertain move as the US president escalated a favorite attack line against his predecessor.

Trump…

By Can Sezer

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Blasts rocked two tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea near Turkey’s Bosphorus strait on Friday, causing fires on the vessels, and rescue operations were launched for those on board, Turkish…