Category: 3. Middle East

ISLAMABAD/ KABUL, Feb 23 (Reuters) – At least 13 civilians were killed and seven injured in Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Monday, as cross-border tensions escalated following a string of suicide bombings…

The leading candidate to become Iraq’s next prime minister, former premier Nouri al-Maliki, told AFP on Monday that he will not withdraw his nomination after pressure from the US, while also seeking to allay Washington’s concerns.

Since the US-led…

LISBON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – A surge in U.S. aircraft activity at the Lajes air base in the Azores is covered by a decades-old bilateral treaty and does not require authorisation from Lisbon, Portugal’s foreign minister said on Monday.

The country’s…

US President Donald Trump is considering launching a limited strike on Iran in the immediate future to pressure Tehran to agree to his nuclear demands, The New York Times reported Sunday. If the Islamic Republic continues to hold out, that…

With Hamas constrained by a host of political and military factors, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the most prominent Palestinian terror group after Hamas, has upped its recruitment and propaganda efforts in the West Bank, analysts and former…

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Britain’s populist Reform UK party unveiled “radical” plans on Monday to stop what it called an immigration “invasion”, promising to create an agency to deport thousands of illegal migrants and to leave human rights…

Israeli settlers attempted to set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank village of Tell early Monday, the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of religious affairs said.

“The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs condemned the attempt by a…