Category: 3. Middle East

NEW YORK — New York City’s public law school is set to hold an event that brands the Hamas terror tunnel network as “decolonial land use,” highlighting how “resistance” to Israel is packaged in some academic settings.

Students…

The Board of Peace’s High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov said at the Munich Security Conference on Friday that the Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with governing Gaza in place of Hamas cannot enter the Strip if…

Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders’s comments that cinema should “stay out of politics” when he was asked about Gaza.

Roy said in a statement sent…

By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Feb 13 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump told U.S. troops on Friday that Iran has been “difficult” in nuclear negotiations and suggested that instilling fear in Tehran may be…

BANGKOK (AP) — With one American carrier strike group already in the Middle East and another apparently on its way as US President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Iran to give up its nuclear program, fears are rising of the outbreak of…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a joint meeting on Friday with his Syrian counterpart and the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

What happened: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad…

A Hezbollah operative was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Thursday night, the military said.

The operative  — identified by Lebanese media as Mahdi Hassan Shaito — was targeted in the southern town of at-Tiri….

By Feras Dalatey , Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Orhan Qereman and Jonathan Spicer

Feb 13 (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement in northeastern Syria leaves thorny questions unresolved, as Kurds seek to retain some authority despite a much…