Category: 3. Middle East

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, late on Wednesday and focused on regional issues as well as Gaza. Iranian state media said they “stressed the urgent need for regional…

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will be in Oman for breakthrough talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme this weekend.

Here are short profiles of the two negotiators:

– Witkoff: real estate to world stage…

Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was the “driving force” behind what it called a genocide in Darfur via its alleged support for rebels fighting the Sudanese army.

Khartoum has dragged the UAE…

The Iran-backed Houthis aren’t backing down, at least not yet. Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed the country targeted US warships and Israel on April 9. He claimed some of the attacks involved drones. “The Yemeni Armed Forces…

ANKARA — Turkish police on Thursday detained two prominent journalists — Timur Soykan and Murat Agirel — in dawn raids amid a crackdown on dissent that accelerated following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the ensuing…

The UN Children’s Fund has closed 21 malnutrition treatment centers in the Gaza Strip, citing ongoing Israeli military operations and recent evacuation orders in the areas where these centres were operating, UNICEF Spokesperson Kazem…

While Jews worldwide celebrate Passover this week, recounting the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, a newly released report sheds light on a modern exodus that remains largely forgotten: the 20th-century ethnic cleansing of Egypt’s…

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said on Thursday that the Iran-aligned group is ready to enter talks with the Lebanese government on a national defense strategy, with the focus on ensuring the removal of Israeli troops from Lebanon’s…

Days after US President Donald Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and praised Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it appears that Israel and Turkey may be on track for talks about Syria.

More than 100 chemical weapons sites remain in Syria, according to a global organization which tracks this specific type of weapons. These estimations by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as initially reported…