Category: 3. Middle East

LESBOS, Greece, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Over two dozen aid workers involved in refugee rescues in Greece were acquitted of migrant smuggling charges in a multi-year case that rights groups said was a baseless attempt to ban aid for refugees heading to…

By Emily Rose

JERUSALEM, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Israel is grappling with a dramatic increase in post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among its troops after its two-year assault on Gaza, precipitated by the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on…

LONDON — A senior politician from the UK’s main opposition Conservative party, Robert Jenrick, joined the hard-right Reform UK party on Thursday, its leader Nigel Farage said.

The announcement came just hours after the high-profile…

The US on Thursday criticized Iran’s presence at naval drills off South Africa’s coast as “particularly unconscionable” given the regime’s crackdown on protests.

Vessels from China, Iran, Russia and the United Arab Emirates sailed…

A group of IDF soldiers operating in Syria two weeks ago stole a herd of some 250 goats and smuggled them into West Bank farmlands, Israeli television revealed Thursday, citing information obtained from law enforcement authorities.

A…

Jan 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale to Peru of $1.5 billion in equipment and services to support the country’s efforts to shift its main naval base in the city of Callao, the Pentagon said in a statement…

Mouayed Zabtia shoots most scenes for his latest movie in a studio he built at his Tripoli home. For the filmmaker, it is one way to overcome the obstacles he faces in a country where cinema once nearly vanished.

Before a 1969 coup that brought…

US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the formation of a Gaza “board of peace,” a key phase two element of a US-backed plan to end the war in the Palestinian territory.

“It is my Great Honor to announce that THE BOARD OF PEACE has been…

WASHINGTON — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country…

Jan 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is backing “a newly appointed Palestinian Technocratic Government” in Gaza.

“As Chairman of the Board of Peace, I am backing a newly appointed Palestinian Technocratic Government,…