Category: 3. Middle East

A suspension of US foreign aid and possible dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will have a major impact on some of the world’s poorest countries, the Washington-based Center for Global Development (CGD) warned…

More than $53 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza and end the “humanitarian catastrophe” that has gripped the war-ravaged territory, including $20 billion in the first three years alone, the United Nations said Tuesday.

The global body said…

An account bearing the name of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s son, Hafez Bashar al-Assad, has been suspended from X after describing the family’s final days in the country before the rebel takeover.

The page for @HafezBAlAssad read…

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country’s first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted on US ownership of the Gaza Strip, but he walked back his threat from a day earlier to withhold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they don’t accept Palestinians forcibly transferred from the…

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall’Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad’s ouster might help reveal the Jesuit’s fate.

“We want to know if Father Paolo is alive…