Category: 3. Middle East

GENEVA — The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it claims are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the West…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has labelled the recognition of a Palestinian State as a “mark of shame” during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Dozens of officials and diplomats staged a walk-out as he took to…

BEIRUT – This time last year, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was consumed by rage over Israel’s detonation of pagers worn by members of the terror group throughout Lebanon, according to his son.

Days later, Nasrallah himself was…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian State by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly.

Netanyahu labelled the recognition moves a “mark of shame” that sent…

Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported Friday, just hours ahead of the likely return of sweeping UN sanctions on Iran.

“A deal for the construction of…

ATHENS, Greece — An international aid flotilla was set to leave Greek waters and head towards Gaza on Friday, organizers said, defying warnings from Israel that it would use any means to block the boat’s access to the war-torn…