Category: 3. Middle East

JERUSALEM, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to shut a U.S.-led multinational coordinating centre that supports President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war….

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By Karam al-Masri and Khalil Ashawi

RAQQA/ Syria, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Syrian government troops tightened their grip on Monday across a swathe of northern and eastern territory abruptly abandoned the previous day by Kurdish forces, in a dramatic…

US President Donald Trump told Norway’s prime minister he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in a message published Monday.

Trump went on to reiterate his desire for the United…

DUBAI, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Iran may lift its internet blackout in a few days, a senior parliament member said on Monday, after authorities shut communications while they used massive force to crush protests in the worst domestic unrest since the…

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Turkish security sources said on Monday that an integration deal between Syria’s government and Kurdish forces marked an “historic turning point” ahead of which Turkey’s intelligence agency played an intensive role to…

ADAMUZ, Spain (AP) — Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people died in the high-speed train collision Sunday in southern Spain and rescue efforts were continuing.

The collision occurred when the tail end of a train traveling…

Israel’s defense establishment believes that Hamas is increasingly motivated to rebuild and recover from the heavy losses inflicted upon it throughout the last two years of war, encouraged in part by US President Donald Trump’s plan for…

By Tamara Vaal

ASTANA, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will join the “Board of Peace” proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump after accepting an invitation to do so and wants to contribute to bringing about a stable…