Category: 3. Middle East

Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said Wednesday that Hamas never agreed to disarm, casting doubt on whether the terror group will fulfil a key US and Israeli demand included in the American-backed plan for postwar Gaza.

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MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Russia is ready to evacuate its staff from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant if necessary, Alexei Likhachev, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation, was cited as saying on Thursday by the state news agency…

Inside the little kiosk at the gas station in the town of Kaukab, time seems to have frozen. The picture of 54-year-old Rasem Naamneh hangs on the wall behind the counter, his gaze fixed on the place where he stood for many years. Another photo…

Iran on Thursday vowed a “crushing response” to any attack after US President Donald Trump warned time was running out for a nuclear deal, and as the European Union looks to declare the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the ideological army of the Islamic republic tasked with protecting the revolution from external and domestic threats but is accused by the West of militant activity abroad and serial rights violations…

EU foreign ministers are expected to agree Thursday to put Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on the bloc’s “terrorist list” after a deadly crackdown on mass protests, the EU’s foreign policy chief said.

“If you act as a terrorist, you…

CAIRO, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Israeli fire killed at least two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, health officials said, in the latest incident of violence, as Hamas and Israel braced to implement the second phase of the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire…