Category: 3. Middle East

Homes and vehicles in the Palestinian village of Susya, in the southern West Bank, were set ablaze on Tuesday night in an attack apparently carried out by extremist Israeli settlers.

Footage published by Palestinian media showed several…

By Alexander Cornwell

JERUSALEM, Feb 25 (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Israel on Wednesday for a two-day visit that both countries have cast as a chance to deepen relations, as regional concerns mount over the risk of…

US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address tilted heavily on domestic issues, but he also made the case for his foreign policy efforts to Americans who are increasingly uneasy about his priorities, vowing to “never…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed Iran is seeking to develop missiles that can strike the United States and accused Tehran of working to rebuild a nuclear program that was targeted by American strikes last year.

The United States and…

Along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, the oldest tram in Africa and the Middle East rumbles for a final few weeks before its removal — the latest urban upheaval Alexandrians say is hollowing out their city’s identity.

Government plans to replace the…

When US and Iranian negotiators meet on Thursday in Geneva, Iran’s top security chief Ali Larijani will be Tehran’s key player behind the scenes.

Adept at balancing ideological loyalty with pragmatic statecraft, Larijani will not attend the talks,…

In December, the right-wing US media personality Tucker Carlson hosted the far-left UN special rapporteur for the Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, on his show.

The two outspoken personalities, from opposite corners of the political…

“Hamas will soon face a dilemma – whether to disarm the easy way, or the hard way. But it will disarm, and Gaza will no longer threaten Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in remarks outlining Israel’s security strategy at an IDF…

American F-22 stealth fighter jets are being deployed at an Israeli Air Force base in southern Israel, as part of the United States’s massive buildup of military forces in the Middle East, The Times of Israel has learned.

The jets were…