Category: 3. Middle East

The authorities report that women without hijabs will no longer be fined or punished in Iran.

This decision by the authorities was partly the result of several waves of protests and a desire to avoid radicalising…

Israel has deported 131 activists from the intercepted Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla to Jordan via the Allenby Bridge crossing between the kingdom and the West Bank, Jordanian state media reported Tuesday.

The deportation would bring the…

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum demanded an “explanation” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday after he said in an interview with conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro that there were 46 remaining hostages…

Two years after Hamas gunmen attacked the Nova festival in southern Israel, the desert site stands as both grave and shrine, where the living come to mourn the dead.

More than 370 people were slaughtered when Palestinian terrorists crossed…

UNESCO executives voted Monday to make an Egyptian ex-antiquities minister the UN culture body’s next leader, as it grapples with accusations of anti-Israel bias that prompted the United States to say it would quit the organization.

The…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday said the two years since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza, had been a “living nightmare” for many, and warned students not to take part in…