Category: 3. Middle East

CAIRO (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei crushed the protests that swept across the country last month, but only by unleashing the bloodiest crackdown of his nearly four decades in power.

Now, with an American flotilla…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic and three other officials went on trial on Wednesday on charges of abuse of office and falsifying documents in connection with a real estate project that was to be…

WASHINGTON – The Washington Post laid off its entire Middle East foreign reporting team on Wednesday, as part of its dramatic and unprecedented restructuring, which instantaneously reshapes what was once among the most influential and…

As Israel begins to allow a trickle of Palestinians through the Rafah border crossing, Gazans stranded in Egypt are torn between staying in exile without formal status or returning to a land in ruins.

“Return to Gaza for what? To live in a tent?”…

By Angeliki Koutantou and Yannis Souliotis

ATHENS, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Fifteen migrants died after their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel, capsized and sank off the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea late on Tuesday, the coast guard…

Seif al-Islam, the son of Libya’s slain longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi and once seen by some as his likely heir, has been killed.

Targeted by a warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, and still a player…

LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Wednesday to release emails and other documents casting light on the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The…