Category: 3. Middle East

A video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers shows their final moments, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, with clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing as heavy gunfire…

Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel’s account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15 rescue workers.

The video published by the New York Times, and said to have been filmed…

Iran is scaling back its strategy of supporting its axis of proxies in the Middle East to focus on the United States’ direct threats, a senior Iranian official told the Telegraph on Thursday.

Ahmed Alagha, a freelance journalist repeatedly used by the BBC,  has made a number of controversial antisemitic and anti-Israel social media posts, including defending the October 7 massacre and describing Jews as “devils.”

US deputy special envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, concluded her meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Saturday, after arriving in Beirut on Friday for her second visit to Lebanon since US President Donald Trump took…

Despite the proposed plans to relocate Palestinians from Gaza being met by international outrage, a number of Palestinians told BBC Arabic last week that they wanted to leave the enclave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under fire again on Friday over his decision to dismiss internal security chief Ronen Bar, with the attorney general accusing him of a “conflict of interest”.

In a statement, Attorney General Gali…

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